LifeScan Recalls Specific Lots of Consumer and Professional OneTouch(R) SureStep(R) Test Strips Due To Inaccurate Readings at High Levels

LifeScan, Inc. is conducting a voluntary recall in the United States of eight lots of OneTouch® SureStep® Test Strips, used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose levels at home. The test strips are being recalled because they may provide falsely low glucose results when the glucose level is higher than 400 mg/dL.

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LifeScan, Inc. is conducting a voluntary recall in the United States of eight lots of OneTouch® SureStep® Test Strips, used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose levels at home. The test strips are being recalled because they may provide falsely low glucose results when the glucose level is higher than 400 mg/dL.

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Better Design, Better Diabetes Care

Some people call diabetes “the ultimate self-managed disease.” That’s because successful diabetes management rests so completely in the hands of us patients, rather than our doctor’s. These days, we have a lot of gadgets to help us: home glucose monitors, injection devices, and insulin pumps, to name a few. But since my diagnosis in 2003, I’d often wondered if any real patients were involved in the design of these medical devices...

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Two New Studies Show Regular CGM Use Increases Diabetes Control for All Age Groups

The latest data from groundbreaking human clinical trials of the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitors (CGM) show that the primary determinant of improvements in achieving better diabetes control is regular use of monitors -- six days per week or more -- rather than the age of patients, and that benefits continue well past the time when people with type 1 diabetes begin using the devices -- including experiencing fewer low blood sugar emergencies.

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Medtronic Recalls Insulin Infusion Sets

A must-read for anyone using a Medtronic insulin pump.

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When Your Diet Needs a Band-Aid

It could be a dieter's best friend or worst nightmare: technology that knows how much a person has just eaten, knows how many calories he has burned off, offers suggestions for improving resolve and success, and never lets him cheat. And it's all done by a small, stick-on monitor no bigger than a large Band-Aid.

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Continuous Glucose Monitors Reference Guide

This just came out from Diabetes Health mag and has all the details on the 3 products currently on the market: DexCom, Medtronic Guardian, and Abbott Navigator

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ONETOUCH PING APPROVED BY FDA

Check out the first glucose-meter and insulin pump combo that employs wireless communication.

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Continuous Glucose Monitors Day

The online diabetes community has dubbed today, July 1, a special day to lobby for insurance coverage of new continuous glucose monitoring systems. The idea is that we all raise our voices, by talking openly about how important CGMS is to our health, whether it’s simply for preventing lows at the gym or for dodging fatal heart attacks and strokes.

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Vote for Your Favorite Diabetes Designs

All the All the entries are in for this year’s exciting

DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge

* a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes *

Go look 'em over and vote for your favorites

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