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100 Years of Insulin
The 100 year anniversary of one of modern medicine’s most significant breakthroughs, insulin to treat diabetes is this week. I found the Toronto Star’s reportage of this interesting-MUCH better than so much modern reporting of “breakthroughs”-it warns of raising hopes too much and explains delays in making the treatment available to all. Interesting read, fascinating…
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Oximeters
Something that isn’t getting a lot of press in Australia is oximeters. In Singapore the government provided each citizen with 2 RAGS and an oximeter. Oximeters are those little things that they clip on your finger in hospital and they measure the oxygen in your blood. This is in no way medical advice but I…
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What’s New? Guidelines, Vaccines & Prices.
It’s been a while but here’s some new stuff (dare I say n3#s in Australia) Living Guidelines Don’t get too excited, it’s not guidelines developed in consultation with the lived experience of diabetes, it’s health professional developed continuously contemporary guidelines. Most clinical guidelines are out of date before they are disseminated, by the time everybody…
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Gut Instincts & Food
“This high interpersonal variability suggests that at least with regard to post meal glucose, approaches that grade dietary ingredients as universally “good” or “bad” based on averages in the population may have limited utility for an individual.”
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The Cure:Are We There Yet?
Spoiler alert: The answer is a resounding NO! As you’d know from my frenzied tweeting last week and my last blog post about tech I was at the Australasian Diabetes Congress #19ADC last week. Rather than do a highlights post, I’ve decided to do some topic specific posts on what I learned at the Congress.…
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#19ADC Day 1 Tech Update
I was fortunate enough to be part of the #DAPeoplesVoice for 2019, this means DA organises a media pass for us to attend the Australian Diabetes Congress, as it’s in my home town this year, I’m organising my own transport and accommodation. I know everyone’s always eager to hear about new tech, so the big…
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ARCS 2019
Last week I attended the The Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists to the Australian Pharmaceutical Industry (ARCS) conference. The conference is a professional development opportunity for scientists (be they doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researcher scientists or software developers) who work in the pharmaceutical or medical device industry-including in the regulatory sphere. The theme of the…
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Smooth (Diabetes) Criminals
Is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family? The diabetes world knows that people are travelling to Canada and Mexico to buy insulin. We know that people have died in the United States from a lack of insulin. We know that the prices of all but the most basic…
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A Plea for Diabetes Week
National Diabetes Week (July 14-20) is almost upon us and the theme is “early detection saves lives”. Diabetes Australia have a webpage devoted to It’s about Time and I’m glad to see this positive campaign again. My plea though is that amongst early detection and screening and pre-diabetes, the general public and particularly the medical…
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Playing At Diabetes
Renza Scibilia blogged last week about her bewilderment at so many professionals at a diabetes conference lining up to get their A1c checked. I too have been surprised to see the longest lines at conferences being for the on-the-spot A1c checks. Perhaps all these people are wanting a free diabetes screening because they’re worried about…