Showing posts with label blood glucose control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blood glucose control. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 November 2012

2012 Review: Blood Glucose Meters

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As according to the Consumer Reports, ranking of the top 21 glucose meters available in the United States in their November issue. Do you agree?

Friday, 27 July 2012

Behind the Press Releases at Roche Diabetes

With only a few minutes left of a company’s internal quarterly conference, word began to circulate by email and whispers that the FDA had cleared a new blood meter-insulin pump device for sale in the United States

Behind the scenes of Diabetes product approvals Accu Chek Combo

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery Improves Nighttime Control in Young Type 1s

In a small study of 10 type 1 children under the age of seven years, closed-loop insulin delivery improved their nighttime glycemic control

Hard to believe they needed a study to prove this but if it helps to rollout this technology to all diabetics Im ll for it

Monday, 23 July 2012

When numbers take over the night.

Deep in the nighttime when children are dreaming,


When parents are snoring and resting their minds.

The numbers march into our homes never failing,

And dictate the peace that our bodies will find.

The joys of blood testing

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Ask the Diabetes Experts

What causes my blood sugar readings to be high when I wake up in the morning?

Elevated morning glucose can be caused by the dawn phenomenon, the Somogyi phenomenon, the release of counter-regulatory hormones, or an excess consumption of carbohydrate the previous
evening.

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Manage Your Diabetes with these iPhone Glucose Meters - Techlicious

An important part of managing this disease requires taking blood glucose readings and noting rising or falling levels throughout the day. That used to mean manually logging the numbers into a journal or glucose tracking app or downloading them to a computer. Now there are glucose monitors that will transmit their readings to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Anyone tried these out and are they any good?

Monday, 9 July 2012

Cintas Introduces GlucoBurst for Diabetes Management in the Workplace | Reuters

Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS), a leader in first-aid and safety products, today announced the availability of GlucoBurst, a blood sugar control product for its first-aid cabinets

Im not sure about some of the claims listed as having glucose products available may not alter the time/work missed due to hypo and besides who doesn't carry out hypo food?. What may be good however is first aid training where people know how to respond to a hypo. Lets hope the training programme is 1st class

Best Blood sugar control relies on more than just one factor

By combining insulin pumps with continuous blood sugar sensors, people with diabetes get better blood sugar control than those using finger-stick testing and insulin shots, new research suggests.

Wonder whether governments around the world can read and start finding some money for funding?