It might be a tad overdramatic to say that this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for, but the news coming out of Sanofi-aventis today is definitely exciting. After five long months since its FDA approval in December, the company has finally announced that their new iBGStar, the FIRST and only meter to work in conjunction with the iPhone and iPod touch, has come to market and is available for purchase.
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Welcome to another edition of our weekly Ask D’Mine column! But before we get started, we want to wish Amy a very Happy Birthday today!
We hope Amy has a fabulous and relaxing day with her family and friends. She deserves it!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…
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Too much insulin, too little insulin… Goldilocks had nothing on PWDs! This week, our host Wil Dubois, diabetes author and community educator and also…
We first heard about Roger Ressmeyer (from Amy’s endo) when he was selected as one of the top 20 finalists for the Space Race 2012, with a Grand Prize of a sub-orbital space flight! Unfortunately, we later learned Roger is no longer in the running, but his track record of pushing boundaries actually starts much earlier. Diagnosed with type 1 at age 13, Roger started work as an international photojournalist in the 1970s. Although he…
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Complications of diabetes are nothing that anyone likes to think about, but here at the ‘Mine, we believe knowledge is power. So we’ve been running a “411 info series” on a variety of complications, from heart disease to neuropathy to depression.
Back in December we talked about frozen shoulder (which has nothing to do with cold weather), and now we’re moving down your arm to talk about carpal tunnel syndrome — an incredibly common ailment…
If it isn’t one thing with diabetes, it’s another — from trying to figure out what the heck’s going on overnight, to the understandable paranoia that sometimes sets in. But we at the ‘Mine are here to support you! We’ve got another edition of our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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Joanne from Maine,…