By
MikeH on
April 2, 2013
Your glucose meter might be keeping secrets from you.
If and when you see a message on the screen alerting you to a “High” blood sugar, the meter probably knows more than it’s telling you, as in the exact numerical value associated with that warning. But the device makers decided that we don’t need that information…
This came to light (in our brains, at least) following the March 25 announcement that almost two million LifeScan…
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Forget about Y2K – this year’s Leap Year date of Feb. 29, 2012, caused a hiccup in the Animas OneTouch Ping system that the company wants to alert customers to right away.
Apparently the problem only affects users who attempted to make changes to their time and/or date settings on that exact fateful day. Weird. Per Animas:
On this date, the pump’s software did not recognize changes some patients attempted to make to their time…
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By
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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By
AmyT on
February 22, 2011
This week, J&J’s Animas is recalling a batch of 45,000 faulty insulin cartridges shipped between Nov. 30, 2010, and Jan. 4, 2011, that reportedly can leak insulin, resulting in the delivery of less insulin than intended. Note that the pump most likely will not alarm if there is an internal leak. If you are affected by this, you should be receiving an email and a letter from the company shortly, in addition to a set…
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By
AmyT on
March 28, 2009
Yesterday we received a letter from Abbott Diabetes Care via certified mail. My husband even had to sign for it. What could it be? Did I win a prize? Owe them money? Were they offering me a job?
BEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP… none of the above. It appears that several batches of FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite test strips have been inadvertently shipped out to customers before being approved for external distribution.
Seven different lots “have the potential to…
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