Haven’t you always wondered why Glucagon Emergency Kits are so effing complicated? I mean, in the event of an actual emergency, if some PWD is lying unconscious on the floor, tasking a friend or family member to fumble with a delicate vial, gi-normous syringe, and what-looks-easy-but-in-reality is about a 12-step process to get the whole thing going only extends the nightmare for everyone involved!
Enter Enject, the smart folks who are developing a simple-to-use glucagon…
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AmyT on
December 17, 2009
Well, Hollywood’s done it again, trying to incorporate a character with diabetes into their storyline. This time, the entertainment industry has bestowed diabetes on one of the main characters in TNT’s new hit TV show, Men of a Certain Age. While the show has been receiving rave media reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times, the reviews on its star diabetic have been mixed at best.
For background: The show stars…
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AmyT on
December 2, 2009
I was chatting with diabetes investor / expert / friend Robert Oringer the other day, who has two teenage sons with Type 1 diabetes. “I’m obsessed with finding ways to prevent severe hypoglycemia,” he pronounced. I guess I knew this about him, but it reminded me of just how complex and scary blood sugar lows can be. Which led me back to this post, which, three years later, still rings true:
Hypo School
I have…
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AmyT on
March 16, 2009
So sorry for the bad pun. Couldn’t help myself. But this is serious stuff, actually. A small company out of Washington state is working hard to gather some much-needed data on severe hypoglycemia, and how we can better prepare for it and treat it.
Apparently there’s not a lot of great existing data on severe hypo cases — in particular on how it typically gets solved when it occurs. (Well, there’s a little)
The core…
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