I love a new invention!

11 October 2010
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Thanks to Dianna and Erin for sending me links to this cool new invention from Sanofi Aventis. As always, things seem to get their debut on the iPhone, but I’m pretty sure they’ll roll out further from there if successful.

The invention on the right is pretty self-explanatory – it’s a BG meter which physically plugs in to the iPhone and integrates with a BG monitoring app.

At the time of writing this post, it was awaiting final FDA approval, and was expected to be priced at US$80. A price us Kiwis can only dream of methinks!!

For more info, see: http://ibgstar.com/web/

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By Nic on 11 October 2010 at 9.14 am
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New technology – insulin delivery patch.

8 September 2010
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I got a Diabetes Health newsletter in my inbox this week and the headline “Easy to use insulin delivery patch” caught my eye. I clicked through to watch this video and was super impressed with what I saw! Basically a company in the States (Prodigy Diabetes Care) has created a ‘patch’ which can hold up to 200 units of insulin at a time which sits on your skin, and which you can manually operate to release a unit of insulin at a time. It wasn’t super clear exactly how this works but they mentioned a cannula which makes me think it must be a tube which goes into your subcutaneous to deliver the insulin.…

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By Nic on 8 September 2010 at 10.44 am
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Aaron: America has some benefits

25 August 2010
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I don’t know if it was because I was staying the San Francisco area (hippie, organic food and greenie central of the US) but contrary to what I had expected in my head, I totally LOVED San Francisco and the wider bay area in general. Not to say that I thought I would hate it, I just didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. Good weather, fantastic food from jalapeno poppers at a diner style restaurant/cafe place to mexican, ethiopian, burmese and white miso ice cream, good people no disasters all made it a fantastic 7 days in the states.

There are many people and experiences I will remember from our week there which I could list…

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By Aaron on 25 August 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: The road less travelled.

14 August 2010
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As of the weekend, we have arrived safely in San Francisco in one piece – and both sighed a breath of relief having had a manic couple of weeks which saw (between the two of us), the release of an album – with its associated gig, a masters thesis completed, quitting of two jobs, selling of cars, a court case (me vs. a bad driver), saying goodbye to 13 nieces and nephews plus 6 siblings plus parents and friends, selling the cars and packing up our entire lives.

Needless to say, it was all quite intense!

Tahiti was absolutely amazing (and amazingly expensive too, a can of coke costs around 4 dollars), but wasn’t without its drama as I came…

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By Aaron on 14 August 2010 at 9.00 am
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An end to finger pricking?

3 August 2010
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I see that Reuters (and many other sites) have reported that an implant has been tested in pigs which measures and transmits blood glucose levels wirelessly. It’s not exactly mentioned where ultimately this would be transmitted to, but there is a mention of cellphones.

Apparently this has been tested in pigs and worked in one for a year, the other for ten months – wahey! The not-so-wahey bit is that the implant is actually 3.8 by 12.7 cm – where on earth are they implanting that puppy?! Crikey!

I have to say though I love the sound of this, taking the CGMS to the next level – no regular changeovers of sensors, no chance sensors can fall out, and no…

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By Nic on 3 August 2010 at 10.45 am
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