Finding new and innovative ways to log our diabetes info is all the rage these days. While some companies are manufacturing new gadgets to help us log and track blood sugar readings, medication doses, carb counts and more, many new apps have been created by PWDs (people with diabetes) who live with the overflow of numbers everyday. In fact, these awesome D-entrepreneurs were the inspiration for our recurring Small But Mighty series on grassroots solutions…
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MikeH on
February 5, 2013
Many in the Diabetes Community are anxiously awaiting the release of the smaller and sleeker 2nd generation OmniPod, but already we know what a third generation won’t have:
A Pod that’s integrated with a Dexcom CGM sensor.
Yep, it’s true: the two companies say they have abandoned the integration deal they had in place since 2008.
Two executives at Massachusetts-based Insulet Corp., makers of the OmniPod, say they’re no longer working with California-based Dexcom on…
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WilD on
February 2, 2013
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine!
In case you were expecting on this fine Feb. 2 morning to open your browser and see a certain friendly groundhog emerging from a burrow to predict this winter season, no dice. No Punxsutawney Phil here.
Instead, what you get is veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois, forecasting some real down-to-earth D-advice on out-of-range blood sugars…
With a Happy Groundhog Day to y’all,…
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MikeH on
January 21, 2013
A fellow person with diabetes from Germany has braved the open ocean and sailed around the world despite his living with type 1 diabetes.
But when it comes to getting his D-devices to talk to each other and share data, adventure sailor Bastian Hauck feels it’s like sailing against the wind into rocky waters.
“I have four devices, three cables, and one app… that’s the problem we face today,” the 34-year old type 1 said.…
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WilD on
January 17, 2013
In the January edition of the American Diabetes Association’s flagship professional journal Diabetes Care, the association has issued a document that lays out its wide-ranging official recommendations for diabetes care in the U.S.
This is the ADA’s annual update of their Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, and the 56-page document deals with everything from classifying the various flavors of diabetes to the use of a 128-Hz tuning fork in foot exams. But unlike past…
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