On our final day of Diabetes Blog Week 2012 (boo, so sad!), we are ending the week on a high note by blogging about our “Diabetes Hero.” As Karen suggests: “It can be anyone you’d like to recognize or admire, someone you know personally or not, someone with diabetes or maybe a Type 3. It might be a fabulous endo or CDE. It could be a D-celebrity or role model. It could be another DOC…
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We’re officially conference-weary after running around the San Diego Convention Center for four days of ADA briefings, sessions, meet-ups and expo booth visits. We lugged home loads of material that will surely keep us post-happy here at the ‘Mine for weeks. So what was super-new and hot? Spoiler Alert: Not all that much this year.
Our overall impression was that a lot of cool technologies we’ve already seen are stuck in the holding pen while…
A couple of weeks ago, we hosted our very first DiabetesMine Book Review Giveaway — a smashing success! — and our winner took us fully by surprise. In fact, she reminded us that outside the cocoon of the DOC, where online cheerleading and pats on the back are common fare, there are plenty of people fighting for their lives with this disease.
Our winner was Audrie Eckerle, a 20-year-old type 1 from Idaho, who has…
Did you know there is now a National Infusion Site Awareness Week? It’s all part of a new awareness campaign brought to us by Roche Diabetes, coming up from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. Publicity stunt by a pump manufacturer? Perhaps. But as anyone who pokes themselves regularly with needles full of insulin knows, infusion site management is an important and oft-overlooked challenge of life with diabetes.
In a recent press release, Roche shared that…
I’m sure many of you heard the news yesterday that Roche Diabetes has acquired Israel-based Medingo, makers of the much-anticipated Solo insulin patch pump — a would-be direct competitor to the OmniPod tubeless pumping system.
Roche paid $160 million for the small company and its technology, which is a drop in the bucket in industry terms. The press release predicts “worldwide availability by 2012.”
In case you’re wondering, the Solo system already had an integrated…