By
WilD on
February 16, 2013
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — with host veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, some of our readers are pondering some specific glucose meter models and the function of control solution, and naturally, Wil has some advice based on his own experience and a keen eye on the meter market through the years…
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Joe, type 2 from…
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By
AmyT on
November 18, 2012
It’s almost Turkey Day, and wouldn’t it be great if we had a bird or two like this around?
Thanks for this early holiday humor go to our regular contributor Jerry King, an accomplished cartoonist who creates more than 200 cartoons each month for websites, magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, etc., worldwide. In other words, he’s no turkey… haha!
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By
AmyT on
September 5, 2012
Apropos to today’s newsflash…
Diabetes advocate and author Riva Greenberg has been on a “meter accuracy kick” lately — researching the heck out of this controversial topic. Very timely considering I’ve been seeing loads of expensive TV ads for Accu-Chek’s new Nano meter, claiming that it’s “23% more accurate” (!)
Riva recently published a piece at the Huffington Post on why meter accuracy is both less, and more, critical than you might think. Truth is, she tells us,…
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By
AmyT on
September 4, 2012
If you have type 2 diabetes and you use a glucose meter — or if you have a meter but don’t use it regularly for some reason — we need your help. I have been asked to compile an article for the ADA journal Diabetes Spectrum on T2 patient feedback and their experiences with glucose monitoring.
For this purpose, we are running a brief survey over at DiabeticConnect and I ask you to please, please (pretty please!) take…
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