Our new correspondent Wil Dubois takes on another test strip-related issue here — one that could effect the future of health care coverage for PWDs all over the country…
by D’Mine Correspondent William “Lee” Dubois
Along with the mystery of how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, is the mystery of how many test strips diabetic children need to stay safe. At least that’s what an obscure panel of…
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They say if you do something 36 times, it becomes a habit. In that case, BG testing ought to be hard-wired by now. But it isn’t… Why do I still have to force myself to do it?
I mean, before meals I’m like Pavlov’s dogs: trained to take a certain action in order to get my treat. And the physical motions of glucose testing have certainly become habitual. I could do it with my eyes…
“If this book were a video game it would be rated ‘Mature’ for a sprinkling of explicit language and for deadly serious subject matter.”
— statement kicking off the “Preface” of Wil Dubois’ latest book, Beyond Fingersticks
Whoa.
While I might have to disagree with Wil’s idea of “sprinkling” (I lost count of how many choice four letter words there were in this pint-sized, yet heavy-duty instruction manual), I completely agree that discussing CGM use…
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{Note: this is second in a two-part series aimed not only at patients, but those in the Pharma industry as well.}
I was interviewed the other day for an upcoming story about Sanofi-Aventis’ new strategy to not just offer individual diabetes products, but become a “full diabetes management vendor.” They are not alone. Medtronic, Roche, Bayer, Abbott and others are among the big industry players talking about more of a “systems approach” to diabetes as…
Pelikan Sun was the ‘Cadillac’ of diabetes lancing systems — with everything that implies: excellent performance, a high-end chassis, yet expensive and impractical for most people. But for some (especially parents of type 1 kids) it was a life-altering product: a way to prick your finger a dozen times a day without feeling a thing!
When the company went out of business a few months ago, I started referring people to the Renew Lancing system…