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?
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Friday, 7 September 2012
Why Meters Can’t Tell Us Our Blood Sugar Levels : DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog
Its an increasingly hot topic as PWD discover the individual power they have to make decisions
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Friday, 3 August 2012
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
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?