By
MikeH on
March 28, 2013
Have you heard of Dario, the new smartphone-compatible glucose meter that’s about to debut over in Europe and will hopefully be heading for the U.S. market within the next year?
It’s a bite-sized meter that lets you turn your smartphone into an integrated glucose meter complete with strips, lancet poker, and phone app. More precisely, it’s an integrated unit about the size of a cigarette lighter that includes a basic adapter that connects into a…
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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
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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