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…
It’s the little things in life, right?
We are very sad to announce that this is the final cartoon here at the ‘Mine from the wonderful and talented Ms. Kim Vlasnik. Kim is moving on to greener pastures (we hear it has something to do with an incredible video series devoted to encouraging and inspiring PWDs) so we bid her a fond farewell… But we’re crossing our fingers she’ll make a guest…
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Welcome to Diabetes Advice World, otherwise know as our weekly column Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil’s getting “down in the weeds” on some eye health issues, and what to do about incessant infusion site problems. You go, Wil!
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Hugo from Spain, type 1, asks: Is it safe for a young Type 1 (32 years old)…
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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…