Last week, for the second year in a row, I attended the Lilly Diabetes Blogger Summit in Indianapolis and experienced up close and personal the place that’s been making the insulin that’s been keeping me alive for almost 30 years.
This was the sequel, so to speak, of the first Blogger Summit the pharma giant held last year, hosting a dozen diabetes bloggers at the company’s huge headquarters in Indy (where I live). But unlike the…
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By
MikeH on
March 6, 2013
Almost two years after getting regulatory OK to sell a new partially-disposable insulin pump in the U.S., a California company has changed the name of its product just before it hits the market in April.
The Asante Pearl will now be known as the Asante Snap, a pretty spot-on name since it’s not only short and snappy (pun intended!) but also accurately describes the design concept of this new “click-and-connect” insulin pump!
Yes, it pops…
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Sunscreen: check. Water bottle: check. Beach ball: check. Insulin cooler….? Yep. For those of us who use insulin, summer heat creates an extra level of complexity and worry.
The real question we all ask ourselves in the heat of the summer is whether our fun-in-the-sun will cook our insulin and leave us having-not-so-much-fun in an air conditioned ICU unit?
There’s a whole industry of solutions dedicated to helping us keep our insulin cool, ranging from…
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I’ve lived with type 1 diabetes for the past 18 years and I travel by plane for business or pleasure (or both…) almost monthly. You probably think that by now I’d have traveling with diabetes down pat. But in true diabetes fashion, I’m constantly learning and re-learning D-management tweaks all the time — especially when on the go!
The Insulin Debacle
This past weekend, my husband and I traveled to Phoenix for a family wedding.…
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High on the wish list for PWDs is cheaper insulin. Costing over $100 a bottle (without insurance), this life-saving liquid can drain your bank account faster than your blood sugar goes up after a bowl of cereal. With so many over-the-counter and prescription drugs going generic and finally saving patients hundreds of dollars, naturally we’re wondering, “When on earth are we gonna get generic insulin?”
Sadly, probably not anytime soon.
Bio-What?
In fact, there really…
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