I realize there are a lot of folks out there struggling to pay for the basic supplies and medications they need to care for their diabetes. The high cost is one of the shittiest things about having this shitty disease, if you'll excuse my candor.
I'm amazed at how many people on the new community write to say they don't have adequate... Read more
Republished with permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com
The Swiss medical device specialists at Debiotech and STMicroelectronics have announced the first "evaluation prototypes" of the unique "highly miniaturized disposable insulin pump" they've been working on for several years. As you can see, it's literally the size of a... Read more
Republished with permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com
Thank you, creative entrants! It's been a long week of deliberating over the 21 submissions we had for the 2nd Annual DiabetesMineTM Design Challenge, including participants from Canada, Iran, and the Philippines (!)
If you recall, this competition is... Read more
Republished with Permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.
I guess you could say we're lucky to have diabetes in an era when people get rewarded for reaching above and beyond the norm while living with this disease. Years ago, who ever singled people out for being inspirational with a chronic illness? Nowadays, we've got the... Read more
Republished with permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com
For at least three consecutive years now at the annual ADA Conference, we keep hearing about a rumored switchover from the A1c as the gold standard average glucose measurement. Instead, we'll get something new and supposedly easier to understand: a new measure that more... Read more
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