Diabetes research with mice. Right. We’re never sure when humans will be able to oust the mouse. When fellow D-blogger and journalist Mike Hoskins discovered an interesting study right in his own backyard, he headed straight behind the scenes to get the scoop for us:
Special to the ‘Mine by Mike Hoskins
Once again, some diabetes research news crossed my inbox and made my eyes roll: “Researchers find beta cell stress could trigger the…
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Forget about Y2K – this year’s Leap Year date of Feb. 29, 2012, caused a hiccup in the Animas OneTouch Ping system that the company wants to alert customers to right away.
Apparently the problem only affects users who attempted to make changes to their time and/or date settings on that exact fateful day. Weird. Per Animas:
On this date, the pump’s software did not recognize changes some patients attempted to make to their time…
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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had a chance to test drive one of the newest glucose meters to hit the market — the Telcare BGM 3G, the first wirelessly-enabled glucose meter, from the Bethesda-based company of the same name (which we introduced here). Telcare made their debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and was a semi-finalist in the “Last Gadget Standing” competition, alongside some very cool new technologies from mainstream consumer…
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