Have you ever sat in a hot tub for too long and noticed your blood sugar starting to take a dive? When the skin heats up, blood vessels expand and allow for greater circulation, magnifying the impact of insulin and pushing glucose levels down — a fortunate effect that Israeli-based company InsuLine wants to duplicate in their new insulin delivery aid products, called the InsuPatch and InsuPad.
InsuLine, which we first reported on following a…
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It’s no surprise to our readers that one of the biggest issues with current diabetes management is the lag time of our current fast-acting insulins.
Although light years ahead of what patients had in the past, current fast-acting insulins still aren’t quite up to snuff to handle post-prandial spikes. This is becomes a barrier for developing an Artificial Pancreas, as the insulin can’t respond quickly enough to sensor data in a closed-loop system.
The topic…
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By
AmyT on
April 28, 2011
Diabetes Health magazine recently published an exposé about the implantable insulin pump that Medtronic has been developing in Europe for over 20 years. The story quotes four passionate users and implies that Medtronic is dumping this phenomenal technology for lowly business reasons (not sniffing enough profit in the air?)
A few of the dozens of commenters defended Medtronic by pointing out the holdup at FDA, not only on the new pump technology itself, but also…
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