We’ve had four great years running our wildly successful crowdsourcing competition, the DiabetesMine Design Challenge.
Today, we at DiabetesMine are proud to announce a new program in our continued efforts to “push the envelope” on diabetes innovation:
The DiabetesMine™ PATIENT VOICES CONTEST!!
We’re asking YOU, the empowered PWDs (people with diabetes) to tell us about your most pressing design needs.
All you have to do is create a 2-3 minute video testimonial about the…
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AmyT on
February 21, 2012
Wow, LifeScan’s OneTouch Verio IQ meter just barely hit market in the U.S., and we got word today that all meters across the country and across Canada are being “voluntarily removed and replaced” by the company, due to an error that can cause the meter to shut down when a user accesses the stored test results.
VerioIQ is LifeScan’s new smart meter, billed as “the first meter ever that automatically alerts you to patterns… and…
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AmyT on
November 16, 2011
The long-awaited Apple’esque t:slim insulin pump from Tandem Diabetes Care is finally through FDA! This is the new full-featured pump that looks like a mini iPhone, with the first-ever color touch screen for insulin dosing. When it hits the market in the first half of 2012, it will also be the smallest insulin pump system available, “sized like a credit card and slim as a smart phone.”
Tandem is understandably proud that t:slim is one of…
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AmyT on
November 15, 2011
Ladies: ever wish you could find the perfect group of girlfriends who “get you” and your diabetes too? Well, now you can!
In another amazing feat from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) in terms of inventing new ways for social media to impact PWDs’ lives, Brandy Barnes, founder of the DiabetesSisters online community, has just unveiled a cool new matchmaking platform with many of the attributes of online dating sites! Except this one is also…
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