Targeting insulin at the liver where it should be – Hepatocyte-Delivered Vesicle for Insulin
Whilst we are on the subject of novel diabetes treatments, I recently came across Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle Insulin from Diasome, and this one is a […]
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#Afrezza or How not to do Diabetes Pharma. Can @SanofiDiabetes shed a little more light? – Updated
***NOTE: This post has been updated following re-reading of the SEC documents relating to the Chang Yi LIang case due to mis-reading of the data*** […]
#FreestyleLibre Now on NightScout – #wearenotwaiting
I’ve been using the Freestyle Libre for over a year now and the third party apps are getting better and better. Glimp has now reached […]
#wearenotwaiting – Disparity of access to Type 1 Diabetes treatments – Globalization? You are having a laugh.
All the time spent on looking at various aspects of Diabetes care during Diabetes Awareness Month made one thing very clear, which was massively accentuated […]
Why isn’t Glucagon suppression part of Diabetes treatment?
Following discussions on the diabetes.co.uk forum recently, I decided that it was worth re-addressing the issue of Glucagon in the Type 1 Metabolic cycle. But […]
Why do Eggs cause high blood glucose in the absence of carbs? Here’syour answer…
Eggs, for many T1s, require almost as much insulin as carbohydrate. Yet eggs contain no noticeable carbs. What they do have is loads of protein […]
Beer. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing…
As the title says, the picture below conveys. Beer is good for nothing as a T1D. Why? It’s about the hardest thing to control. Liquid […]
Some thoughts on changing the Type 1 Diabetes Care model – part 1 #DOC #gbdoc
Following a question posed by Dr Partha Kar at the Diabetes Professional Care conference in November 2015, I asked the diabetes.co.uk Type 1 population, as […]
A Challenge for the Smartphone Glucometer makers… Parent alerting
One for the kids… Dario, iBGstar, iHealth and 2in1 have phone apps that feed a web service with all the data from blood testing, once […]
The #3Rs technique – what T1Ds do when Reviewing and Reacting #DOC #gbdoc
Following a very positive response to the 3Rs technique for diabetes management, the questions that have been raised to me a couple of times “What […]