diabetes records

NewsFlash: Leap Year Messes with the OneTouch Ping

By AmyT on March 7, 2012

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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At $10/Month, Is It Your SweetSpot?

By AmyT on September 17, 2008

I know a lot of you diabetics out there are not into logging your numbers.  It’s a pain.  And how much does it really help your glucose management, anyway?  Well, there’s a guy up in Portland who thinks that logging is not only pretty essential, but it ought to be a community affair, involving not only your health care providers, but also family members, friends, school staff, etc., as desired.
His name is Adam Greene,…

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