Five years ago, when I was lying in a hospital bed all dehydrated and depleted, I never could have imagined how my life with diabetes would turn out. Certainly I never imagined myself boarding a plane to San Diego, flying down for the day to stand up in front of a group of 50 women living with Type 1 diabetes to talk about strength. Strength?
But last Saturday, I did exactly that. I flew down…
God knows I’m excited about diabetes devices going wireless. So I’ve been keeping my eye on the new OneTouch Ping system, a combination of the Animas 2020 insulin pump and a OneTouch glucose meter that talk to each other wirelessly. This means you can actually control the pump right from the glucose meter — setting basal rates and bolus insulin doses — without ever having to “pull the pump off your hip.”
It’s not as…
A call for YOUR pressing questions!
This coming Saturday, Oct. 25, is the Diabetes Research Institute’s annual conference in New York. One of the main topics is making sense of news coverage on diabetes — are the headlines all just a bunch of hype, or do they bring us real hope?
The DRI has asked me to publish a call for your questions here: if you were in a room with a panel of diabetes…
Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Institute is taking on the world, one diabetes program at a time. Or at least that’s their intention. Today this pharma giant is announcing Diabetes HOW: Helping Our World, a huge initiative aimed at identifying best practices in diabetes treatment and care, and expanding and building out these successful programs around the world. So what does this mean exactly? That’s what I wanted to know, too.
“We’re focusing on programs that…
Who here uses an insulin pen? Tired of having to screw the needles on and off? You might be very interested a new product from Can-Am Care called ClickFine, precision Swiss-made pen needles with patented technology that lets you click them on and off instantly.
What’s the big deal, you ask? Well, I personally switched from a Novo Nordisk Junior pen to an insulin pump about a year and a half ago, but I do…