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January 15, 2009
Here it is: the final segment in the new “Learning with Liberty” video series I’ve hosted. Not surprisingly, this one is based on the book I co-authored with Dr. Richard Jackson of Joslin Diabetes Center, all about how to get a handle on your overall health with diabetes by monitoring and understanding five key medical tests (I would list them, but I want you to watch the video – grin).
Speaking of grin, at some…
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AmyT on
January 9, 2009
A number of you asked about the OmniPod, so here you go: Below please find the third video in our Liberty Medical series on Insulin Pumping. This one’s all about “going wireless” — a personal fetish of mine, as you may know.
Again, this may not be ground-breaking news to you Type A-Personality Type 1 diabetics out there, but it IS new information for many PWDs, who’ve never had the good fortune to be…
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AmyT on
January 8, 2009
It still ain’t Wilford Brimley. Here I am in the second of our 3-part series on pumping. This one gives you an overview of different pump models.
When I watch these clips, I find that I look a little stiff here. Not nearly as smooth as, say… Nicole Johnson Baker (I wish). But hey, we started taping at 8am East Coast time, which was 5 o’clock in the morning for me. I’m lucky…
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AmyT on
January 7, 2009
I joked with the cameraman that it was the best video he ever made about urine tests.
OK, not all the video shorts I taped lately in collaboration with medical supply giant Liberty Medical (yes, the folks with that legendary Wilford Brimley commercial) mentioned the joy of urine tests. Our topics included “what is an insulin pump?,” “intro to pump features,” “new wireless diabetes systems,” “how to use your glucose meter data to improve your…
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AmyT on
January 5, 2009
Per my recent post on the troubles at the FDA, we’ve launched an online letter and petition titled, “Ask the FDA to Better Serve Diabetes Patients’ Needs,” that we’re asking everyone to sign. The website is fittingly called Heal-the-FDA. Please go and have a look.
You will see that we have a growing list of supporters, including politically-minded D-blogger Scott Strumello, who flagged this issue last summer; Dr. Steven Edelman, founder of TCOYD; pumping expert…
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