GlucoTrack is designed to help people with diabetes obtain these blood glucose level measurements without the pain, inconvenience, incremental cost, and difficulty that are presented by conventional (invasive) spot finger stick devices, which all involve drawing blood.
You might have been given the ratios by your health care professional, or maybe you calculated your ratio from an equation. How do you know that they are still adequate and, even more importantly, how do you change them if they are not? Read more
Few treatments for type 1 diabetes have been as elusive and long-promised as inhalable insulin. The concept has always sounded remarkable: Instead of jabbing themselves with needles, type 1s (and insulin-using type 2s) could take a quick puff on an inhaler to get a dose of insulin.
Insulin allergy is now rare, but it does occur. Like any other allergic reaction it is triggered by a misguided response from the immune system, seeing a benign element as a foreign invader
Type 1 diabetes was previously thought to render the pancreas completely unable to produce insulin, the hormone responsible for controlling sugar entry into cells and subsequent blood levels.
Patch pumps were a diabetes revolution when they appeared on the market several years ago. The Snap® with its pre-filled insulin cartridges isn’t quite as dramatic a technological leap, but it sure does make the everyday routine of pump management easier.
There’s a lot of fuss and excitement about the newest diabetes device approved for people in the U.S.: Medtronic’s long-awaited 530G system and Enlite sensor… But at the same time, there’s a significant amount of frustration by people who feel they’re being misled on a number of fronts about this new device.
An insulin pill, long desired by diabetes doctors and patients but abandoned as not physically viable, could be available by the end of this decade as a tiny Israeli company races a Danish pharmaceutical giant to be first with what could be a multibillion-dollar product.
The Danish company said it planned to spend the money through to 2020 on six diabetes pills it has under development and that the sum included potential production facilities.
The calculation of that bolus dose of insulin can alter the course of your day. If your blood sugar is too high after a couple of hours, you’ll have to give yourself more insulin. If it’s too low, you’ll have to find something else to eat. And those errors can lead to even further swings […]
So if the Medtronic 530G isn’t a full artificial pancreas device system why is Medtronic calling it an artificial pancreas? Because they can.
Last week marked the big European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) taking place this year in Barcelona, Spain. Like the annual American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions, this gathering draws thousands from the scientific, medical and research spheres to talk about diabetes advances.
A correlation may exist between asymptomatic episodes of ventricular arrhythmias and silent hypoglycemic episodes. Markolf Hanefeld, MD, PhD, of Technical University Dresden in Germany, and colleagues believe this may provide an explanation for the risk of sudden death during instances of hypoglycemia in patients with coexisting diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Insulins still take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to really start working in these days, but there is a new option that science says could help speed up absorption: it’s called Hylenex, an injectable liquid enzyme that basically makes the tissue under the skin less resistant to fluids
Many factors can affect blood sugar control at high altitudes, and people considering a mountain journey need to understand the potential risks of the environmental extremes, extensive exercise, and dietary changes they may experience.
For the first time ever, people with diabetes in the United States will have access to a device that can automatically shut off insulin delivery if your blood sugars dip too low.
The device includes an insulin pump and a glucose sensor that stops insulin delivery when blood glucose reaches a preset level. The system has been approved for use by diabetics aged 16 years and older. Medtronic said it would conduct a post-approval study that would include children aged 2 years and older.
These much-anticipated mHealth guidelines come a full 27 months after the FDA issued draft guidelines and welcomed public comment, meaning the agency has spent a little over two years compiling extensive examples and finalizing the document for public release
While it may be the last thing you want to guzzle down with meals, vinegar can help diabetics gain better control over blood sugar levels, reports a new study in the Journal of Functional Foods.
From Consumer Reports, customer reviews, articles like this one in Diabetes Forecast, and comments on diabetes blogs, it seems like most meters and strips have pretty similar quality. So how do you choose?