We talked recently about how diabetes is part of a much larger chronic illness community, and that’s a strength we don’t often tap into. Sometimes innovations that can help us PWDs (people with diabetes) come from folks dealing with other conditions too — like a small Minneapolis, MN, firm called Visual Medical, that was formed about two years ago based on one woman’s family ordeal.
Her name is Rachael Jacques and she grew up with…
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AmyT on
August 10, 2011
As we noted last week, one particularly fun thing about about attending the AADE’s Annual Meeting is the plethora of consumer and patient-facing products on display. This year, we saw three interesting things aimed at alleviating the pain of shots and finger pricks — a very minor concern for doctors, probably, but potentially HUGE for those of us who hate needles (which I’m assuming includes all of us!)
Meet Buzzy4Shots
This thing caught our attention…
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AmyT on
October 16, 2009
We often forget to be grateful for the little things, I think. In the Sixties, remembering to do this was called “stop and smell the flowers.” We rarely do that nowadays. I’m not talking about praising locomotion or penicillin here — nothing that moves the masses or revolutionizes public health. Rather, the more trivial, ‘minor inventions’ that make life just a little bit better.
Here are my Top 10 at the moment, in no particular…
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Nope, these innovative designs for “all-in-one” diabetes devices (everything you need for both glucose testing and insulin injections in one package!) were NOT shown at the ADA Expo this past week. That’s because they don’t exist yet, except in the minds of some more of our űber-creative contestants in this year’s $10,000 DiabetesMine Design Challenge.
And I have to ask myself: isn’t there a market for something nice and compact like this? If OmniPod can…
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