This is one of the weirder products I’ve received to review: a bathroom scale with built-in mirrors so you can examine your diabetic feet even as you get the latest update on your diet progress. Ugh. Initially, that combo didn’t sound too good. But then I took a closer look at the Insight and was rather intrigued.
Coming out of the packaging, the new Insight® Foot Care Scale is about as sleek and attractive as…
All the most useful and intriguing things I learned about diabetes seem to come from other patients. No contest. Every time I correspond with folks in the community and read other PWDs blogs (as much as time permits), I am blown away by the stuff I hear about. I was fortunate enough to actually see Manny Hernandez and Anne Findlay live and in person in San Francisco last week. Here are three cool things they…
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Due to my busy summer, I somehow missed the excitement about TRUE2go, the world’s smallest blood glucose meter, which was granted FDA clearance in August. Was there excitement? From the looks of it, there should have been.
As you can see, it’s about the size of an iPod Shuffle…
I haven’t seen one up close and personal yet, but according to the company, it’s about the size of a quarter! “Small enough to fit in…
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I’m baaaaacckk… And this video topic is a big one for me. I’ve written a whole lot about how much it irks me that so many patients get sent home with glucose meters and told to take a bunch of tests and record the numbers, without ever being told what to do with that information: How can it be useful for your health? So here’s a brief video explanation in our 4th in the new…
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A number of you asked about the OmniPod, so here you go: Below please find the third video in our Liberty Medical series on Insulin Pumping. This one’s all about “going wireless” — a personal fetish of mine, as you may know.
Again, this may not be ground-breaking news to you Type A-Personality Type 1 diabetics out there, but it IS new information for many PWDs, who’ve never had the good fortune to be…