By
WilD on
April 30, 2011
Our controversial columnist Wil Dubois is back with another spicy edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
You know the answers you get here will be brutally honest and interesting, to say the least.
Robyn from Colorado, type 1, writes: I have traveled a lot over the years with my insulin in tow. Upon completion of each trip I always come to the…
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By
AmyT on
February 28, 2011
Recently I stumbled upon a firm based in Fort Lauderdale, FL, that calls itself Pancreum, “The Wearable Artificial Pancreas Company.” Wow. Really? There is such a thing already? I just had to investigate.
The company’s website describes a four-part system including a controller (PDA), a CGM sensor called the “GlucoWedge,” a small wireless insulin pump called the “BetaWedge,” a small wireless glucagon pump called the “AlphaWedge,” and a set of “iPancreum” software apps that manage…
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By
AmyT on
January 17, 2011
Last week, thousands of healthcare companies and investors therein descended upon San Francisco for the 2011 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. Although I wasn’t able to attend personally, I’ve been keeping an eagle eye on what happened there in terms of diabetes through my friend, seasoned industry observer David Kliff of Diabetic Investor — reporting daily on what he calls “the wacky world of diabetes devices.”
He’s kindly given me permission to summarize some of his…
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By
AmyT on
October 20, 2010
Who’s tried Abbott’s new FreeStyle test strips with their fancy new “ZipWik” technology? These are the ones with the Butterfly on them, and the new tapered ends that poke out for much-improved blood uptake. I wrote about them when they were first introduced in this Test Strip News post.
Trouble is, now that they’re being shipped out to customers, nobody’s sure whether they’re compatible with the built-in meter on the OmniPod.
A bunch of people…
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By
AmyT on
August 24, 2010
I could call today’s guest post a “straggler” from my Summer Reading series, but that might downplay its impact. Good things take time, as noted today by Samantha Katz, who along with a fellow graduate student at Northwestern University, won the the $10K Grand Prize in the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge.
She was subsequently hired by Medtronic as a Global Product Manager for their evolving insulin pump systems (! – and she served as a…
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