Exercise, Insulin and Automation. The challenges.
There are regularly calls in the #WeAreNotWaiting world to incorporate exercise detection into the algorithms that we use, so that end users can minimise hypo […]
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Basal Rates – with a DIY closed loop, what’s the best strategy?
If you look through the various social media groups for DIY closed loops, there are a lot of different views as to what’s the best […]
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 […]
Fiasp and the Onset 5 CSII Trial – What Novo Nordisk found
Around the time of launching Fiasp, Novo Nordisk embarked on a wider study of its use in Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII), or pumping as […]
Why we are regularly wrong in the duration of insulin action (DIA) times we use, and why it matters…
Once you start using a hybrid closed loop system, whether it’s OpenAPS, Loop or AndroidAPS, or a commercial offering such as the 670G, you have […]
Faster acting analogue insulin – straight from #EASD2016 – coming to a pharmacy near you, sometime….
The EASD Virtual Meeting place has been a revelation. It’s allowed me to view the sessions that I wanted the DOC that’s present at the […]
Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults – LADA – The Other (but more prevalent form of) Autoimmune Diabetes…
Here I am, a type 1, something which I’ve now written a great deal about on this blog, and instead of talking about Type 1, […]
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 […]
The cost of diabetic emergency care. Is it really so expensive? #gbdoc
Whilst responding to a question on the diabetes.co.uk forum, I uncovered the JBDS paper on avoidance of admissions for diabetes. This makes for very interesting […]