Holidays. Even from T1D?
The holiday For the past two weeks, I’ve been on a bit of a holiday of a lifetime, taking in the Big 5 (elephant, rhino, […]
Diabetes
#DiabetesWeek2022 or #BadDiabetesWeek2022?
Technology isn’t quite the panacea we all wish it was…
If COVID vaccines were deployed in England like Diabetes medication, many would be waiting for them in 2025…
As a headline, this seems like a harsh statement to make. As an observation of the organisation and effectiveness of England’s healthcare model, perhaps less […]
Insulin Icodec – the once a week long acting insulin from Novo Nordisk
If you’ve been following the ADA Scientific Sessions, you’ll have seen lots of big device announcements and AID information, but you may have missed this […]
Investigating the rules of 500 and 1800 looking at real world data
For a long time, clinicians have used the rules of 1800 or 100 (depending on which units you use) for Insulin Senstivity Factor (ISF), or […]
You don’t have to put on the red light… (but maybe you should)
Firstly, sorry Sting for misappropriating your lyrics, but they seemed to be a good fit. So why would I mention Red Light in the title […]
Could it be magic? A potential future for users of type 1 diabetes technology…
Imagine, for a moment that that you’re walking down the street and all of a sudden an alert appears in the corner of your vision […]
Adding to the arsenal – what is the new oral add-on for Type 1 Diabetes?
For the first time, an oral add-on treatment, Dapagliflozin (aka Forxiga from Astra Zeneca) has received regulatory approval for managing type 1 diabetes. While this […]
Masquerades and Feints – using DIY diabetes terms nefariously
That’s a very blunt headline making a pretty clear statement about my point of view on this topic, but what is the topic? If you […]
#FreeStyleLibre2 – further thoughts
The big question that remains for many more technical users in relation to the FreeStyle Libre 2 is whether it is transmitting glucose data or […]