people with diabetes

Glooko’s D-Device Connectivity Workaround

By MikeH on January 29, 2013

When it comes to connecting diabetes devices and assuring that they can “talk to each other,” the small but mighty startup Glooko is making surprising progress. But it’s doing so with what is essentially a clever workaround — the first and only plug-in cable between popular glucose meter models and the iPhone/iPod, which debuted in November 2011.
Touting the motto “free your data” (sorely needed!), Palo Alto, CA-based Glooko has been busy on Amazon.com selling…

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Embarking on a New Path to Becoming a CDE

By AllisonN on August 24, 2012

I have some bittersweet news to share with you: today is my last day as Assistant Editor at DiabetesMine.
What could possess me to leave such a great position at an amazing diabetes blog? Well, I’m heading back to school to become a Certified Diabetes Educator!
(((YAY!!!!!)))
This has actually been something that’s been brewing inside me since I was in high school. I remember first mentioning the idea of being a diabetes educator to…

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The 411 on Growing Old with Diabetes

By AllisonN on August 20, 2012

People with diabetes are living longer and healthier lives than ever. The life expectancy for PWDs has dramatically increased through the years (yay!), but that doesn’t mean that diabetes gets any easier. In fact, as the well-respected endocrinologist and person with diabetes (PWD) himself Dr. Irl Hirsch put it at a conference earlier this year: we’re seeing more “geriatric PWDs” these days and that presents a new host of issues that endocrinologists and patients traditionally…

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The Great (Diabetes) Behavior Change Debate

By MikeH on June 21, 2012

A slightly bigger theme than usual at the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions this year was behavioral change for people with diabetes. As in, motivating us to embrace and maintain good behaviors that positively affect and change our diabetes management.
(Pause… before I break out in laughter!)
Isn’t that the story of most of our lives with diabetes: how to get motivated and stay on top of our D-Management? And if we long-timers can’t figure…

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Sanofi Unwraps the iBGStar and Its Consumer/Apple Ambitions

By AllisonN on May 2, 2012

It might be a tad overdramatic to say that this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for, but the news coming out of Sanofi-aventis today is definitely exciting. After five long months since its FDA approval in December, the company has finally announced that their new iBGStar, the FIRST and only meter to work in conjunction with the iPhone and iPod touch, has come to market and is available for purchase.
Say it with…

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