If you imagine the Diabetes Community is climbing a mountain toward some figurative peak, then a takeaway from this year’s Roche Social Media might be this:
We’ve made a pretty inspirational climb during the past few years, but there’s still a long way to go. And no matter who’s helping with the rope and climbing gear along the way, it’s ultimately up to us to climb higher.
That was pretty much the theme of this…
Roche Diabetes has just released the next generation of their popular Multiclix Gatling-gun-style lancing device. The new version, called FastClix (yes, with a capital C versus the older lancer, with lowercase c), features one-click lancing, a whole new system for advancing the six-lance drum to a fresh needle, and an improved counter to keep track of how many lancing needles are left in the drum.
Just how does FastClix stack up against its predecessor? Our…
Ouch… we’re feeling the pain just looking at it!
This week’s guest cartoonist is Terry Keelan, a type 1 PWD located in Southern California, and one of the winners of our Diabetes Chuckle contest from way back in 2009. You can also check out some of Terry’s snarky videos on YouTube. Thanks Terry!…
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Hey PWDs: Have you ever read the headline of an article and thought to yourself, Gee, that sounds familiar? That’s what we thought last week when news of a nano-tattoo for monitoring blood sugar started popping up again. We first heard about this technology way back in 2002, and then again in 2009, and even in 2010. So is anything really new there?
Turns out the latest is that scientists at Northeastern University are integrating…
Gary Scheiner is not only a well-known diabetes educator and author of the popular book Think Like a Pancreas, he is also a type 1 diabetic for the past 25 years. He has used every pump and CGM on the market (he’s currently rocking a Medtronic pump and DexCom CGM) and has also mastered the art of Symlin, another injectable drug used to manage type 1 diabetes.
He’s back as one of our expert judges…