Well that time has come around already! It is November! That can only mean 1 thing! Diabetes Month, incorporating World Diabetes Day which takes place on 14th November, the #BigBlueTest which also takes place on the 14th and coinciding with National Diabetes Awareness Month throughout the USA and starts of with JDRF’s T1 Day today [...]

Insulin Pump Hacking [The Sequel]
Cast your minds back to August this year. The very first #insulinpumphackinggate surfaced thanks to Jay Radcliffe’s endeavors! (Hi Jay), causing outrage from within the Diabetes community and rightly so. Initially, I was not as concerned as I’m not a pumper as yet. The stunt proved that a pump can be told what to do by a [...]

World Diabetes Day – Blue Fridays
Created by the awesome Cherise and edited by the equally awesome Kim.. Blue Fridays is an initiative to bring attention to World Diabetes Day, and to advocate and bring awareness for diabetes and the people living with it. Diabetes is more than a national issue; it’s a world epidemic. Quote from Cherise who also created [...]

Problemas temporales de Apidra España
Informamos de un problema temporal del suministro de plumas precargadas para inyección de Apidra® 3 ml (insulina glulisina) [origen ADNr], que afecta a: Apidra® SoloStar™ 100 UI/ml, solución inyectable en pluma precargada y APIDRA OPTISET 100 UI/ml solución inyectable en pluma precargada. Esta situación se debe a un incidente técnico en una línea de fabricación [...]

Shortage of Apidra (insulin glulisine) cartridges Spain
The European Medicines Agency is aware of a shortage of Apidra, a medicine for treating diabetes, affecting the supply of Apidra 3 ml cartridges and Apidra prefilled disposable pens (OptiSet and SoloStar) in several EU Member States. The Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has made several recommendations to manage the situation [...]

Remember The Whole Body
Hey Guy’s n Gal’s So whilst trying to motivate ones self to write more on this site, it finally occurred to me that I may have open up more. While it is relatively straightforward to write about diabetes, it not as simple when writing about yourself, for various reasons such as not wanting the bore the living daylights out of [...]
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