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MikeH on
March 28, 2013
Have you heard of Dario, the new smartphone-compatible glucose meter that’s about to debut over in Europe and will hopefully be heading for the U.S. market within the next year?
It’s a bite-sized meter that lets you turn your smartphone into an integrated glucose meter complete with strips, lancet poker, and phone app. More precisely, it’s an integrated unit about the size of a cigarette lighter that includes a basic adapter that connects into a…
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By
WilD on
February 16, 2013
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — with host veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, some of our readers are pondering some specific glucose meter models and the function of control solution, and naturally, Wil has some advice based on his own experience and a keen eye on the meter market through the years…
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Joe, type 2 from…
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By
AmyT on
December 26, 2012
Well, we all made through another year!
Surprised we got through this one? Especially with that purported Mayan prediction about the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012? Well, we’re still here! Predictions of doom were apparently exaggerated… Perhaps the premonitions were of something “magical” that was supposed to happen, so we were crossing our fingers for a cure being discovered or the FDA approving the best-ever fantasy diabetes device… or somesuch.
But short of that…
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WilD on
October 27, 2012
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine! Your host is veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week’s query has him doing a little science experiment to answer a question about re-using test strips… Not quite the 2-liter volcano like we made back in grade school, but educational and fun all the same!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Randy, type 1 from Arizona asks: Is there…
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Continuing our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest that were announced in June, today we’re featuring none other than long-time diabetes blogger and advocate, Sara “Knicks” Nicastro, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 21. Sara lives in Florida and works in higher education administration.
In her contest video, Sara discussed her thoughts on device personalization, like what’s offered by many smartphone apps these days. We…
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