Since January, we’ve been presenting a run-down of everything you need to know about living with diabetes complications. So far, we’ve covered your eyes, your heart and your kidneys. Because let’s face it: knowledge is power. It’s certainly our motto here at the ‘Mine. April is National Foot Health Awareness Month (yes, they pretty much have a month for everything — April is also National Pecan Month and Fresh Florida Tomato Month).
Diabetic neuropathy is…
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By
AmyT on
December 15, 2010
Anyone who’s ever looked over a traditional glucagon kit (scary! confusing!) will appreciate this: another company hot on the trail of developing a new compact, one-step injection device for treating severe hypoglycemia. This one is called GlucaGo, from a group of young entrepreneurs out of Purdue University.
Co-Founder Rush Bartlett explains: “Our device holds the drug in a freeze dried form until right before use when the user removes the cap, causing the freeze dried…
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Haven’t you always wondered why Glucagon Emergency Kits are so effing complicated? I mean, in the event of an actual emergency, if some PWD is lying unconscious on the floor, tasking a friend or family member to fumble with a delicate vial, gi-normous syringe, and what-looks-easy-but-in-reality is about a 12-step process to get the whole thing going only extends the nightmare for everyone involved!
Enter Enject, the smart folks who are developing a simple-to-use glucagon…
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The third and final Grand Prize winner of this year’s 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is Barbara McClatchey, mother of teenage boy with diabetes living in Collierville, Tennessee. She’s been a computer programmer for many years, and she and her husband both work for FedEx Corp. She’s also been heavily involved in her local JDRF chapter for 11 years, serving on the Board of Directors for the past seven.
Barb was honored for her concept called…
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If you enjoy “The Biggest Loser” or other reality shows in that vein, and you have diabetes, you’re gonna love this!!
Several years in the making, the TCOYD “Extreme Diabetes Makeover” program is underway now; episodes will start airing in May on TCOYD.org and its own TV channel, on YouTube, and at RealAge.com, the popular consumer health website run by Dr. Mehmet Oz of Oprah fame and his colleague Dr. Michael Roizen.
Wonder what I’m…
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