By
MikeH on
April 16, 2013
When exactly the Animas Vibe integrated insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) hits the U.S. market is now up to the FDA.
Almost two years after the Animas Vibe hit the market in Europe, this Monday Johnson & Johnson submitted the pump to the U.S. regulatory agency. The company publicly announced the submission during their first quarter earnings call early this morning.
Our Diabetes Community has been anxiously awaiting this news since October, when…
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By
MikeH on
February 13, 2013
Is there something in the water? Seriously… it’s like there’s a contagion out there at the moment spreading misinformation about diabetes.
Sadly, movies and media missing the point is nothing new for the Diabetes Community. It happens all too often.
But some recent high-profile examples demonstrate the continuing battle we face combatting myths and misconceptions around our disease.
First, there’s a new NBC show ironically titled Do No Harm (a referrence to the Hippocratic oath that all physicians…
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By
AmyT on
December 26, 2012
Well, we all made through another year!
Surprised we got through this one? Especially with that purported Mayan prediction about the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012? Well, we’re still here! Predictions of doom were apparently exaggerated… Perhaps the premonitions were of something “magical” that was supposed to happen, so we were crossing our fingers for a cure being discovered or the FDA approving the best-ever fantasy diabetes device… or somesuch.
But short of that…
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By
AmyT on
December 20, 2012
In a somewhat surprising announcement last week, we heard that dLifeTV, the nation’s only TV program devoted to diabetes, was going off the air. Instead of running on CNBC each Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, it will henceforth be web-based, posted each Sunday at www.dlifetv.com during the same time slot.
Online since 2005, dLife is one of the “premiere platforms to inform, inspire and connect with millions of diabetes patients, consumers and caregivers.”…
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