Day 2 of the Australasian Diabetes Congress didn’t have many new technology announcements, but it did involve lots more presentations. Many more than I was able to attend. I’ve already reported on the Ypsomed announcement of new infusion set options. The other highlights for me included: A masterclass on some of the issues with including …
More news from the 2019 Australasian Diabetes Congress. For those people who can use luer-lock infusion sets with their pump, new options should be on the Australian NDSS list as of September 1st, 2019. I wrote about the luer-lock options recently in the context of “Animas finally going away“. But now there’re two more options! As …
Day 1 of the Congress had a few bits of news for us. Here are just a few of them. Accu-Chek Solo Roche have announced the Accu-Chek Solo patch pump. Do note that it is not launched yet. The expectation is that the pump will be launched (in limited numbers) at the next Prostheses List update (November). …
Recently I went back and checked my notes to come up with a realisation: the 22nd of August 2017 was when I activated my first closed-loop insulin pump system. That means Thursday will be my 2nd looping anniversary! Two years of feeling like my diabetes was under some sort of control, and not a speeding …
This week we have a few events happening in Sydney. Australasian Diabetes Congress This year the Congress runs from the 21st to the 23rd of August. It is not open to the average punter living with diabetes, but is targeted at “health professionals”. It is the annual meeting of the ADS (Australian Diabetes Society: primarily endocrinologists) …
For many years I’ve worn a pendant with basic medical alert info. On the rear it has printed some simple text: INSULIN T1 DIABETES ALLERGY: PENICILLIN It was a careful compromise with the space available. I had to decide which bits of information were essential, and useful for emergency workers to know if I was …