A number of you asked about the OmniPod, so here you go: Below please find the third video in our Liberty Medical series on Insulin Pumping. This one’s all about “going wireless” — a personal fetish of mine, as you may know.
Again, this may not be ground-breaking news to you Type A-Personality Type 1 diabetics out there, but it IS new information for many PWDs, who’ve never had the good fortune to be…
As many of you know, I’ve taken on Health Design as a platform of advocacy. And it happened almost by accident, when I had the inspiration to pen that Open Letter to Steve Jobs back in April of ’07. It was a tongue-in-cheek call-to-action for the gurus of consumer design to get together with the providers of medical devices and start making them smaller, slicker, more personalizable — in short, more like the iPod.
I’m happy…
That new software I previewed a while back for the OmniPod wireless insulin pump system is finally here! For physicians, anyway. But it’s all good. Hear me out:
This week, without a lot of hoopla, Insulet Corp. is rolling out a new software package for use in clinical settings by HCPs (Health Care Providers), called OmniPod Partner. Any patient using the OmniPod can now request that their doctor get hold of this beta program and…
I noticed a lot of chatter of late on diabetes forum sites about Symlin use. Some are still on the fence about trying this synthetic form of the human hormone Amylin, normally made by the beta cells, which helps level out post-meal glucose peaks. Others are just grateful that it’s now available in a convenient injection pen.
In early June, Amylin reported results of a study using Symlin with 112 patients with Type 2 diabetes,…
Because you just haven’t gotten enough of this contest yet , please say hello to the Grand Prize winners today:
Ethan Mullis (left) is a professional designer and Type 1 diabetic. His brother-in-law and best friend Alan Johnson helped him get hired at the innovative web startup company Gnoso Inc. in Taylors, South Carolina. Last March, he also convinced the firm’s CEO to let them both focus on developing a new program for diabetes. Per…
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