By
MikeH on
April 2, 2013
Your glucose meter might be keeping secrets from you.
If and when you see a message on the screen alerting you to a “High” blood sugar, the meter probably knows more than it’s telling you, as in the exact numerical value associated with that warning. But the device makers decided that we don’t need that information…
This came to light (in our brains, at least) following the March 25 announcement that almost two million LifeScan…
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By
MikeH on
December 13, 2012
The diabetes community has long been calling for cheaper, generic glucose test strips that would ideally work with a variety of meter brands. Dream on, right?
In fact, some companies out there are making excellent headway in the “generic” category, despite being under siege by “the big guys.”
One of those is a small Southern California-based company called Pharma Tech Solutions that’s looking to enter the market with a product it’s eager to distribute called the…
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By
AmyT on
December 9, 2011
In the last few years, we’ve seen a few sleeker-looking glucose meters make it to market, along with more logging tools and apps than we can shake a stick at. But what’s still been lacking is some good assistance in taking all those numbers and actually knowing what to do with them — what changes do they call for in our diabetes management?
Unless you’re telephoning your CDE or endo every time you spot some…
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With all the medical gear we PWDs have to carry around, it can be difficult to find the perfect bag to comfortably tote around all this stuff. (See Wil’s rant on the man-purse for PWDs, for example.) At the AADE expo last week, we saw a few new options worth mentioning. All of these companies are also started by entrepreneurs — and we do love supporting small D-businesses here at the ‘Mine!
First up is…
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By
AmyT on
December 8, 2010
Pricking our fingers multiple times a day isn’t exactly something most of us get excited about, but I’ve discovered that some folks out there do get excited about the lancing device they use. While most of us use the lancer that came for free with our meter (i.e. we don’t give it much thought), there are a couple of brand-name models that really seem to get people talking. They are the ACCU-CHEK Mutliclix from Roche…
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