On May 17, Asante Solutions held a launch event at their Sunnyvale, CA, headquarters. Their new Snap pump (formerly called Pearl) is ready for prime-time, and they wanted to debut it to a group of online advocates — giving us the opportunity for a four-week trial run, and also premiering some of their rather edgy marketing videos (think SNL does insulin pumping! more on that later.)
They are currently rolling out the product in the…
Food issues, bubbles in your pump tubing — it’s all par for the course when you’re living with diabetes. But sometimes you just need some…
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Before we left for the AADE conference last week, we had several requests for more info about the new FDA-approved Spring universal infusion set.
We reported on the company and their new infusion set AND insulin pump from the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in June. Their insulin pump, the Spring Zone, has been submitted for CE mark, but since it’s not yet FDA approved, we were not able to film anything on that new…
Did you know there is now a National Infusion Site Awareness Week? It’s all part of a new awareness campaign brought to us by Roche Diabetes, coming up from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. Publicity stunt by a pump manufacturer? Perhaps. But as anyone who pokes themselves regularly with needles full of insulin knows, infusion site management is an important and oft-overlooked challenge of life with diabetes.
In a recent press release, Roche shared that…
I know, I know, I had the same reaction: What the heck?! Just on the heels of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)’s big artificial pancreas announcement last week that brings the non-profit into a commercial partnership with J&J, yesterday they released news of a new commercial partnership with Becton Dickinson (BD). The goal of this collaboration is to improve insulin pump therapy.
I found the press release a bit confusing. The wording seemed to…