From DiaTribe: How Many Factors Can Affect Your Blood Glucose?
This is a WONDERFUL list of factors that can affect your blood glucose! NO WONDER it is such a challenge!!! From Adam’s Corner DiaTribe Issue 68 August 19, 2014 short summary: As patients, we tend to blame ourselves for out of range blood sugars – after all,...Medscape Medical News: Inhaled Insulin on US Market in 2015
Medscape Medical News Lisa Nainggolan August 11, 2014 The novel inhaled insulin product, Afrezza, recently approved for use in the United States, will be launched there at the beginning of next year following a commercial agreement signed between the manufacturer,...
From MyGLU: An Interview with Tidepool CEO Howard Look
Howard Look, CEO of Tidepool, front, second from leftWe recently had an opportunity to interview Howard Look, CEO of Tidepool, an innovative, open source approach to managing data from diabetes devices. Both Howard Look and Tidepool’s co-founder and CTO, Steve...
BEEP BEEP BEEP, a mystery solved!
BEEP BEEP BEEP … BEEP BEEP BEEP I hear it … my husband hears it … my dogs hear it. I reach for my left pocket where I keep my insulin pump … pull it out and check it. Nope, not the pump. I reach into my right pocket where I keep my CGM … pull it out and check...
How did my BG know that I was having a colonoscopy???
Seriously, after a day of fasting, I’m all over the place. As if doing the prep and colonoscopy weren’t enough!!! Really?!?!?!?Is This a Good Thing?: Global Diabetic Care Devices Market Expanding to $25 billion by 2018!
According to Aracely McKay, writing for the Diabetic Investor: The global diabetic care devices market is mainly driven by increasing technological advancements, increasing prevalence of diabetes, increasing aging population, increase in awareness of better diabetes...Exciting News! New Legislation about Medicare Coverage of CGM FINALLY!
Looks like a new bill was introduced into the Senate regarding Medicare’s coverage for continuous glucose monitors. As you may have read on my blog, I appealed Medicare’s decision to deny me coverage for my CGM … up to the 4th level. I was denied...
GUEST BLOG: An “Outsider’s” Point of View
Hello, my name is Laura Castillo. I am an incoming college freshman at the University of California, Irvine, who has only ever researched medical information for specific school assignments. I can give you information on urinary tract infections because I researched...
I’m FREE … NO CGM for 6 hours!
I feel naked! No, not really … but I’ve been wearing CGMs 24/7 since 2006! Yup, I was at the head of the line for the first Dexcom, the STS, a 3-day sensor with wild variability … and Dexcom was such a small company that I invited the VP of Government Affairs and...
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