Wearables/Products
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Dexcom Develops Apple Watch App
This announcement comes on the heels of news that it has gained FDA approval to market a blood-sugar data sharing app.
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How I Started Myabetic
Dancer Kyrra Richards turns a Type 1 diagnosis into a thriving business that provides cases for diabetes gear.
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The Joy of Socks
Advances in sock technology hold the promise for better foot-care, and fewer amputations, for people with diabetes.
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A BG Breathalyzer?
Western New England University researchers announce they have created a device that detects acetone levels on the breath of people with diabetes.
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Good Vibrations: A New Approach to Treating Neuropathy
Electrical nerve stimulation offers hope of pain relief for people who suffer from diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Sensus, a new FDA-approved product, aims to manage pain by stimulating healthy nerve function.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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