The Modular Medical MODD1 insulin pump. What do we know? by Tim Street for Diabettech.com, 31 May 2024.
Modular Medical recently submitted their new pump system to the FDA for approval. It’s described as: “Effortless Insulin Delivery Made Possible.”
The MODD1 is a 300u “pseudo-patch” pump with a tail like the Tandem Mobi. Aside from the reusable “pump body” there’s a service pack containing ten insulin cartridges, an infusion set and adhesive pad, and syringes for filling. Insulin cartridges expire after 80 hours. The user guide only lists Humalog as the insulin it’s certified with currently, but this may be outdated. According to the user guide, the pump body expires after 90 days, so you’ll get through four of these a year.
Who is it for? 1. It looks like a relatively inexpensive device, although the real question will be about the cost of consumables; 2. This isn’t a device you’re going to want to use if you are particularly insulin sensitive, and the user guide states that it’s only for adults; Given the options that are present, it feels like an alternative to MDI for those with relatively high insulin needs, and in turn, may be beat focused on this with type 2 diabetes, rather than type 1.
Modular Medical chairman and chief technology officer Paul DiPerna said: “We believe that our simplified design will encourage many ‘almost-pumpers’ to adopt technology to aid in their diabetes management, without the complexity and expense required by many of the current solutions.”
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WHO IS CHANGING THEIR NAME, THIS WEEK??? Watch for the worldwide announcement on Tuesday, 4 June 2024!!!
Semaglutide may change perception, brain response to sweet tastes by Jill Rollet for Healio.com/endocrinology, 2 June 2024.
In a proof-of-concept study, women with obesity who took semaglutide reported enhanced taste perception, and researchers observed altered gene expression in their tongues and their brain reward response related to sweet tastes.
“Populations that are prone to obesity have an inherently elevated desire for sweet and energy-dense foods,” Mojca Jensterle Sever, PhD, of the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia, said during a press briefing at ENDO 2024. “Obese individuals often perceive tastes as less intense.”
“The improvement of taste perception and increase in functional activity in the [brain] region [that] integrates multisensory inputs provides ‘food for thought’ on the additional mechanisms by which semaglutide and other incretin-based therapies facilitate changes in food preference and eating behavior that might potentially lead to reductions in body weight beyond appetite suppression,” said Jensterle Sever.
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I am very excited for the name change at JDRF. I think it is a long time coming and well thought out. It is exciting for them and those of us with T1D.
I am confused about the new pump. The question for me is why? what is it that this pump provides that others do not? New pumps need to ask themselves that question at a minimum.
The conference looks a little tired. I know there are more contemporary speakers. Just saying. All great people, and all bring great information, but if I am going to a conference like this, I think some new thoughts might be in order.