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
March 28, 2013
Have you heard of Dario, the new smartphone-compatible glucose meter that’s about to debut over in Europe and will hopefully be heading for the U.S. market within the next year?
It’s a bite-sized meter that lets you turn your smartphone into an integrated glucose meter complete with strips, lancet poker, and phone app. More precisely, it’s an integrated unit about the size of a cigarette lighter that includes a basic adapter that connects into a…
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By
AmyT on
February 21, 2012
Wow, LifeScan’s OneTouch Verio IQ meter just barely hit market in the U.S., and we got word today that all meters across the country and across Canada are being “voluntarily removed and replaced” by the company, due to an error that can cause the meter to shut down when a user accesses the stored test results.
VerioIQ is LifeScan’s new smart meter, billed as “the first meter ever that automatically alerts you to patterns… and…
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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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