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On November 27th, an article came out about insulin pumps being linked to deaths and injuries. Here is a response from the diabetes community. On November 27, 2018, the CBC published an article entitled “Insulin pumps linked to more reports of injury and death than any other medical device, records show” (posted online Nov. 27, 2018, […]
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 Jack Woodfield A potential breakthrough into delaying the onset of type 1 diabetes has been made by US researchers. A trial involving a subset of immune cells could mean researchers are one step closer to preventing type 1 diabetes. The research, carried out by the Baylor College of Medicine and the […]
Story by Jack Woodfield More than 205,000 people have signed a US petition urging large diabetes organisations to provide more funding towards research to find a cure for type 1 diabetes. The 4th Annual More for a T1D Cure Petition ran for 11 weeks and this year secured nearly double the amount of signatures than […]
Medtronic Minimed 670G approved in Canada. After being FDA approved in the US over 3 years ago, the closed loop self-adjusting insulin pump is now available in Canada. Here is the press release SUBJECT: Medtronic receives Health Canada licence for the MiniMed 670G system- The world’s first self-adjusting insulin pump system […]
Abbott’s ever popular Libre FreeStyle has a follow up! The 2nd generation Libre was just approved in Europe. Check out the press release
Saturday, March 1, 2003, my Diabetaversary. I had been losing weight since January. I was thirsty and becoming more so as the days passed. I was in the bathroom urinating a lot. I started to count how often, and when I got to 8 before 3pm I got concerned. (I had seen a commercial on […]
Every Type 1 diabetic is told to fight off DKA (Diabetic ketoacidosis) the best thing to do is drink LOTS of water. While this definitely helps, it also flushes out necessary electrolytes from our system. Keeping a few bottles of sugar free sports drinks in the house is a great way to help so that […]