What If Type 1 Diabetes Was Treatable — If You Found It Early Enough?
For most of its history, type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been diagnosed late. By the time symptoms appear, the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells […]
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A “twiist” of Fate: Why Sequel is Moving Beyond Tidepool to Embrace Diabeloop
For those in the “We Are Not Waiting” camp, the Sequel twiist pump was supposed to be the commercial homecoming for Tidepool Loop. It promised […]
Introducing The Daily Bolus: Parsing the Signal from the Noise
Date: January 13, 2026 If you’ve been following Diabettech for a while, you know that my focus has always been on the deep dives—the “Nine […]
ChatGPT Health: Promise, Practicality, and the Reality for People with Diabetes
Artificial intelligence has been hovering around diabetes care for a while now, usually wrapped in glossy demos and ambitious claims. Carb-counting apps that “just work”. […]
Unauthorised Use of Nine Sensor Samba Data in Commercial Marketing
Recently, we became aware that i-Sens has published a marketing infographic promoting the CareSens Air continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system. The infographic references Diabettech and […]
A pump update and then… Something changed!
I’d been using an Accuchek Insight for getting on for five years, starting in 2020 with a hand me down, then obtaining one of the […]
The Nine Sensor Samba: How do the Consensus Error Grids stack up?
Taking the evaluation of the nine sensors a step further with Consensus Error Grids and looking at the price performance of the sensors.
The nine sensor samba: Results revealed
9 sensors; 15 days; 150 fingerpricks. The results of the “nine sensor samba” are in, and they’re not what we were expecting…
The Nine Sensor Samba — A Sneak Peek at Simultaneous CGM Testing
Previewing the “Nine Sensor Samba”: Our real-world comparison of nine CGMs simultaneously, assessing accuracy (MARD), Time-in-Range, lag, and app usability.
Beyond Snaq-qing. Digesting your glucose patterns.
I spent a long time discussing Snaq’s use of AI for food recognition in the previous article. In this one, I’m looking at what it […]