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Inside The Bionic Pancreas Inpatient Trials
1 Cathy Grzesik (52) during her tests, 2 Emily Burke (16) eating a high-carb dinner, 2 Dr. Steven Russell with Emily’s Dad, Pat, reviewing Emily’s data on Dr. Russel’s cell phone and 4 Dr. Steven...
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Caveat Pumper: Things To Consider Before Getting Attached
Four years ago, there was no iPad, or any other brand of tablet computer. Today there are tens of millions of individual devices, produced by a variety of companies. New diabetes technology isn’t on...
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Barbie Gets A Pump’
Amy Ermel and her daughter Emma have never met Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham, but they hope following in their footsteps will convince toy giant Mattel, makers of Barbie and Ken, to create a suite of...
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Building A Bionic Pancreas
Left: Dr. Firas El-Khatib left, and Dr. Ed Damiano, right When the history of the first successful closed-loop diabetesmanagement system is written, David Damiano’s name may be mentioned only in...
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A Snappy Approach to Pump Technology
Asante’s new Snap insulin pump features the largest display text size available. In clinical trials, first-time users were able to complete critical tasks 99% of the time after only one training...
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Road-Testing Asante’s Snap Insulin Pump
Medical device development, and insulin pumps in particular, follows a well-trod path, worn smooth in the 40+ years since insulin was first combined with an infusion set. In the clinical trials stage,...
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Type 2 Insulin Therapy: Wherever You Go, V-Go
Among all the nations where diabetes is a serious health concern, the United States is an outlier when it comes to insulin treatment therapies. While insulin pens rule the roost among multiple daily...
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Insulin Pump Beats Injections for Children with Type 1
A comprehensive new study out of Australia shows that children with Type 1 diabetes have better medical outcomes if they receive insulin by pump instead of by injections. While past studies have...
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A Memorable App
Derek Stewart and Jill Ramsay are working parents of 4 children under 12 years of age, and they face all the ordinary scheduling and logistical challenges that come with a large family. But diabetes...
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The Future of Pumps Is Now — Maybe
For 35 years, the City on a Hill that represents the possibility of untold riches from insulin pumps has glimmered on the horizon, tangible but unreachable. To be sure, several companies among more...
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FDA Warns Medtronic of Paradigm Pump Problems
Medtronic’s Paradigm Insulin Infusion pump has run afoul of U.S. health regulators in 2013. In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Class 1 recall for the pump, warning of the...
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Study: Smart Pumps Prevent Hypos
The study tracked T1 patients using the Medtronic Veo, a pump similar to the Medtronic MiniMed 530g, pictured here. An Australian study has found that smart insulin pumps, which shut off insulin...
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Tandem Expands t:slim Cartridge Recall
Tandem issued a voluntary recall of some lots of insulin cartridges used for its t:slim Insulin Pump out of concern that the cartridges might leak. The company warns that the affected cartridges...
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Low On Insulin for the Weekend
Forward Motion As I said in our a recent newsletter for Insulin Nation, people with Type 1 diabetes understand that we can’t go it alone when it comes to staying healthy. We all know that having...
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Pumps are an Adjunct, Not a Cure
My first patient of the day was a woman with Type 1 who had worn an insulin pump for 15 years. She was now 14 weeks pregnant. One day, she had multiple “No Delivery of Insulin” messages on her pump....
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Infusion Sets: The Power of Choice
Choosing an infusion set and insulin pump can be a frustrating and challenging process, especially when you don’t know all the possibilities of what’s out there. Few of us are told that there are over...
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Insulin Pumps Keep Pitchers in the Game
Dustin McGowan In baseball, pitchers have been known to sneak a few things into their back pockets or onto their bodies to help with their pitching performance. Headlines were made early in the 2014...
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Tandem Scores Big With Artificial Pancreas Research
There are times when it’s not easy being a spokesperson, like when you have to stand at a podium and neither confirm nor deny the latest political scandal. And then there are times when being a...
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Why We Should Root for Type 2 Pumps
Commentary I want to talk to you about some Type 2 diabetes news…wait, wait! Don’t leave! This might concern you, too. In our latest tech roundup, we mentioned a study which found that people with...
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Miss Idaho and Pump Life Pride
Commentary © Susan Hessing The insulin pump got a glam shot mid-June when Sierra Sandison posted a photo of herself wearing an insulin pump during the bikini competition for the Miss Idaho pageant....
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The Predictive Pump
Medtronic announced that it has enrolled its first patients for a trial to test an insulin pump which predicts which way your blood sugar levels are trending, and takes action if it detects a rapid...
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Tandem’s High-Capacity Pump
To make a splash in an insulin pump market dominated by Medtronic, Tandem designers seemed to take Apple’s slogan to heart to think different when they created the t:slim insulin pump. These designers...
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5 Tips for a Happy Insulin Pump Marriage
I’ve found that living with an insulin pump is a lot like being in a marriage. Like most thriving partnerships, it requires a solid investment of time, energy, and patience. It’s taken me some trial...
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Study Finds Medtronic MiniMed 530G Prevents Hypos
Quick Hit Medtronic is touting new data that shows its MiniMed 530G pump, which automatically suspends insulin delivery when blood sugar levels get too low, can prevent some bouts of hypoglycemia....
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Waiting for the Ideal Pump
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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A Pump-Maker Becomes a Medical Provider
Insulin pump companies have raced to come up with better-performing and more user-friendly pumps, but building the better mousetrap is only half the battle. The best pumps in the world won’t sell if...
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The Practice Pump App
Quick Hit User error in insulin pump programming can be disastrous, but there’s a new app that may help prevent some errors from occurring. Insulin pump maker Tandem Diabetes Care has introduced...
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When Your Pump Suggests the Wrong Bolus
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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Medtronic in Court Over Alleged Insulin Pump Failure
In recent years, Medtronic has occasionally run afoul of federal regulators over issues with its pumps. Now the pump company must defend itself against a lawsuit for an insulin pump failure. According...
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Asante Closes, Shutters Snap Pump Production
The sudden demise of the pump maker Asante caught everyone, even those in the news business, off-guard. Insulin Nation learned of Asante’s closure in the same way we imagine many of its customers did:...
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Lessons to Learn from Asante’s Demise
Analysis On May 14th, Asante, maker of the Snap pump, was an established player in the insulin pump industry. It had been employing bloggers to promote the Snap and was touting its new pump innovation...
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Bigfoot Resurrects Asante Snap Technology
You may be seeing the Asante Snap pump again, even if Asante seems permanently shuddered. On May 28th, it was announced in a press release received by Insulin Nation that Bigfoot Biomedical has...
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When Technology Isn’t Enough to Prevent Lows
The ADA Scientific Sessions is the kind of place where you hear a lot praise for technological advances in diabetes care. Diabetes researcher Dr. Simon Heller, however, provided a note of caution to...
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12 Ways to Stay Safe with an Insulin Pump
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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How Pumpers Can Prep for Hospital Stays
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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Flaw Detected in Medtronic MiniMed 640G
After Medtronic rolled out the MiniMed 640G overseas, their next target was the US market. That effort now has hit a speed bump, as the FDA has given public notice that Medtronic has issued a recall...
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Tougher EU Pump Safety Standards Needed
In recent years, newer models of insulin pumps have often been released in the European Union before they receive FDA approval in the U.S. For example, Medtronic released its MiniMed 640G insulin pump...
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Four Countries’ Different Standards on Pump Safety
As discussed in the first part of this series on insulin pump safety, there is little international agreement on safety standards for pumps. Many people with diabetes in the U.S. have a rudimentary...
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The Pump Failure Reporting System is Flawed
In the first two parts of this series on insulin pump safety, European and U.S. health officials called for better and more uniform insulin pump safety standards. In this third part of the series, we...
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Speaking Up to Make Pumps Safer
We previously discussed how flaws in the FDA medical device reporting system have made it impossible to know how many adverse medical events have been caused by malfunctioning insulin pumps. There are...
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Why Pumps in the EU May be Less Safe
In previous stories in this series on insulin pump safety, we’ve been discussing the push to have U.S. and European pump standards more closely align, but such efforts might face an uphill battle.The...
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Pump Maker Deals with Quality Control Fallout
Insulet, known for the OmniPod tubeless insulin pump, recently announced that its manufacturing plant was functioning quite nicely again after a rocky period of quality control issues. This...
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Dress Your Pump or CGM for Halloween!
An insulin pump is often worn as a discreet fashion accessory, but a growing number of pump users have chosen to be more open with the devices. Many people now have chosen to openly display their...
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5 Reasons People Ditch the Pump
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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How to Get Approved for Pump Therapy
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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Infusion Set Rotation is a Really Good Idea
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dietitians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS...
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Medtronic to Build Pump Factory for Chinese Market
Pump-maker Medtronic recently announced it will be expanding its insulin pump operations in China. According to a Fierce Medical Devices report, Medtronic plans to build a manufacturing plant in...
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