As we all know, there’s A LOT to remember when it comes to diabetes. So Timesulin, a virtual company founded in 2009 in Germany, Sweden and the UK, hopes to help patients remember whether or not they’ve taken their insulin injection.
Unlike insulin pumps, most insulin pens don’t come with a memory that you can scroll through to check whether or not you already bolused for your dinner. What to do if you’re unsure? Not taking…
Our controversial columnist Wil Dubois is back with another spicy edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine.
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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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Earlier this week, Novo Nordisk released results of a sweeping new survey about how patients — both type 1 and type 2 — struggle with insulin therapy, and what doctors accredit that to.
Entitled the Global Attitudes of Patients and Physicians in Insulin Therapy (GAPPTM), the survey was conducted among almost 3,000 physicians and patients in eight countries “with the objective to learn what they perceive to be the biggest functional and emotional unfulfilled needs…
Calibra Medical’s new insulin “patch pen,” brand-named Finesse, has been approved by the FDA and performed extremely well in recent patient studies. The product could be a huge hit — if the company can secure the financial backing it needs to get production off the ground, according to the physician leading their research charge.
So let’s start at the beginning here: What the heck is a “patch pen,” anyway? That’s what I wanted to know.…
How many diseases do you know of where patients are required to calculate exact dosing, up to half-a-dozen times a day, of a medicine so potent that mistakes could literally knock them out or kill them? I hate to be fatalistic, but after a few serious insulin flub-ups lately, I just can’t seem to get this thought out of my mind.
Of course we’re all just winging it. Carb-counting isn’t particularly exact, nor are our…