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• Insulin Patch Pump Co. Opens Up R&D

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 525
  Welcome to another “Where Are They Now?” update on a DiabetesMine Design Challenge entrant.   This year, we received a paper entry on PicoSulin, a “revolutionary miniature insulin pump with direct Penfill Cartridge loading.”I heard from the Geneva, Switzerland-based company last week that their website is now ...
  1 week ago

• Wayback Wednesday: Seven Things Worse Than the Diabetes

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 525
  On an overnight trip to Dallas two weeks ago, I broke out in some rather ugly hives — again! My lips poofed up like I’d been slammed with a hockey puck, and my right eye went all ape-like. This lasted for several days.  It was that damn gluten allergy again, I must assume, although for [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Insulin Pump

  
  Toucan Scraps and News — Authority: 128
  I had a home visit from the diabetes nurse today. Due to logistics for training staff at school and availability of support staff at the hospital etc we will not be able to put insulin in TJs pump this weekend as planned (1/2 term school break next week). We have to wait until the beginning of the Christmas holiday. ...
  3 weeks ago

• World’s Best Minor Inventions

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 525
  We often forget to be grateful for the little things, I think.  In the Sixties, remembering to do this was called “stop and smell the flowers.”  We rarely do that nowadays.  I’m not talking about praising locomotion or penicillin here — nothing that moves the masses or revolutionizes public health. Rather, ...
  3 weeks ago

• How I Learned to Live With Juvenile Diabetes

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Do you know someone that has just been diagnosed with diabetes? Here’s the experiences of one teenager and how they learned to cope with being diabetic, using an insulin pump and so much more – that teenager is me!You’d have thought that having had diabetes for almost 8 years I would have gotten [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes – A Day in the Life

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  For people that live without diabetes it is hard to understand how the disease impacts the flow of daily life. Every day begins with a ?stick? and a drop of blood. A ?stick? is the term we use to describe using a lancet to pierce the skin and draw a drop of blood for [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Your Insulin Pump Infusion Set Can Make All The Difference

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  A Typical infusion set is made up of the pump connector, a length of tubing and the needle or cannula. Different sets suit different people and it is important to experiment when you first get your pump, to find out what works for you. If you are having problems with unexplained high sugars when using [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Insulin Pumps – Get Better Control, Get Your Life Back!

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  In recent years an alternative to manual insulin injections has emerged. Enter the Insulin Pump. The first Insulin Pumps were quite bulky, but modern ones are about the size of a small Cellphone or Pager. The pump is worn unobtrusively on a belt or in a pocket and it delivers insulin through a thin plastic [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Just a Little Control

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Children with diabetes often lash out because they feel they have no control over their lives. Everything they do is governed by their diabetes: medications, meal times, shots, blood checks, and endless visits to the doctors. A lot of a young diabetic?s freedom is taken away by the disease.It is hard for a child with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Getting Personal About Your Diabetes

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Diabetes is a nasty disease, so much so that we don’t even look at its bright side. And, diabetes is controllable. Tight control will prevent much of what hurts people most. It’s as simple and as complex as that. Control is the key. It’s too bad some physicians and some patients simply ascribe to [...]
  4 weeks ago

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