With two sons on pumps, each on different schedules, Derek Stewart needed help remembering when to do what. An app he inspired helps him meet the challenge.
Category: Research
Insulin Pump Beats Injections for Children with Type 1
A 7-year study of close to 700 children finds that children who get their insulin by pump have better blood sugar control than those who get insulin by injection.
Better Math, Smarter Meters
With insurance reimbursements for test strips slashed, meter makers may be able to increase their market share by delivering more accurate readings.
Strip Recall Could Strengthen Calls For More FDA Oversight
The FDA announces Nova Diabetes Care is recalling 62 million glucose test strips. Could this recall have been prevented by better testing standards? Read more.
Test Strip Accuracy: Blood In, Garbage Out?
Meter accuracy is critical to good diabetes care, and, right now, procedures don’t exist for measuring accuracy after the FDA clears a glucometer. This is a dangerous, unacceptable situation, and you can help change it.
ADA Scientific Sessions 2013: A Pause Before The “Next Big Thing”
Every year since 1940, the American Diabetes Association has brought doctors, researchers, clinicians, and industry together for an annual event they call the Scientific Sessions. The name is apt. This is a serious gathering, not an excuse to party, and the titles of many presentations would leave those who didn’t fare well in their high… Continue reading ADA Scientific Sessions 2013: A Pause Before The “Next Big Thing”
Type 2 Insulin Therapy: Wherever You Go, V-Go
Among all the nations where diabetes is a serious health concern, the United States is an outlier when it comes to insulin treatment therapies. While insulin pens rule the roost among multiple daily injectors in Japan, and in many European countries, the good old-fashioned syringe is still preferred by a majority of insulin users here.… Continue reading Type 2 Insulin Therapy: Wherever You Go, V-Go
Road-Testing Asante’s Snap Insulin Pump
Follow two insulin pump veterans as they take the new Snap pump for a month-long “test drive.”
A Bee Takes The Sting Out Of Shots
“To have something that cushions the needle part and make it not that big a deal, when everything else associated with the diagnosis is so huge and overwhelming…I truly see that as a big win.”
Dr. Ann Baxter, inventor of Buzzy®
A Snappy Approach to Pump Technology
Snap is a feature-rich pump long on convenience but short on price. At around $700, it costs about the same as an OmniPod starter kit.
Spreading Bets In the AP Sweepstakes: An Interview With JDRF’s Dr. Aaron Kowalski
A conversation with Dr. Aaron Kowalski, Vice President of Treatment Therapies at JDRF, touches on ongoing work in creating an artificial pancreas, developing more rapidly-absorbed insulins, and making a stable, liquid glucagon for bi-hormonal pumps. This isn’t research for its own sake: these days, a clear “path to market” is a hallmark of JDRF research grants.
A Tattoo Even Mom Will Love
Tartoosâ„¢ takes injection site management in a new direction by making it possible for people with diabetes, or the parents of children with diabetes, to “tattoo” the abdomen and other injection areas with small, easily-removed, images that are spaced one inch apart.
A Sense of Who You Are
From cool meter to cool sensor: the creators of Sanofi’s iBGStar tackle their next challenge, making wearable sensors into a fashion statement.
Trend Setter: Dexcom CEO Terry Gregg
Few, if any, people can match Terry Gregg’s perspective on both the business and technology of continuous glucose monitoring. IN sat down with Gregg for this interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2013.
The Doctor is (Always) In
“Connected Care” Puts Expert Advice In The Palm of Your Hand
Building A Bionic Pancreas
When the history of the first successful closed-loop diabetes management system is written, David Damiano’s name may be mentioned only in passing. This will not be surprising, since David, age 13, played no role in writing the algorithms and testing the meshed technologies that will make life infinitely easier and safer for people with type 1 diabetes. He is, however, the principal reason the system will exist. His father, Ed, coinvented the “bionic pancreas” to keep him safe. The system will represent a father’s love, distilled into a mathematical formula.
Barbie Gets A Pump
An Ontario mom Amy Ermel and her daughter Emma have never met Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham, but they hope following in their footsteps will convince toy giant Mattel, makers of Barbie and Ken, to create a suite of dolls with diabetes. The Ermel’s Facebook page, Diabetic Barbie, launched in February and as of mid-May had accumulated almost 6,000 “likes.” Sypin and Bingham’s Facebook page, “Bald and Beautiful Barbie: Let’s See If We Can Get It Made,” has garnered more than 159,000 “likes” since Christmas, 2011, the vast majority after CBS News broadcast their story about a Barbie doll with cancer in early January 2012.
The Bear Facts
A huggable, interactive, diabetes teaching tool for kids
6 Things to Consider Before Starting Pump Therapy
Advice on how to make sure pump therapy is right for you.
Inside The Bionic Pancreas Inpatient Trials
There is an old saw that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and Ed Damiano’s relationship with Dr. Steven Russell is a perfect example of the saying in action. In 2006, when Damiano came to the Joslin Diabetes Center to give a talk about the experiments he was doing on pigs, using an early version of the bionic pancreas. Russell happened to be in the audience.
