#TwoBits: Starting a dBlog and wisdom from the dBlog that started us all

Starting your own diabetes blog has never been easier with the easy and free ebook from the Girls Guide to Diabetes. No you don’t have to be a girl to read it. 

http://thegirlsguidetodiabetes.com/2012/03/05/free-ebook-start-diabetes-blog

My two cents in this two bits is read blogs, join the conversation with comments on blogs, as you develop you voice reag teh ebook and start your own. 

I am among those who view David Mendosa as the original and still king of the diabetes blogs. This week he writes about testing in, The Trouble with Glucose Testing. The key is being taught what to do about it, particularly for non insulin using T2Ds. Studies show the BG test don’t do any good and in large part it because the key part of the equation is missing: what to DO with the results. David has some insights on what to do. 

http://www.mendosa.com/blog/?p=1204

I just love this image. Gotta wear a latex glove on your other hand when you test you blood. I hope this give you as big a smile as it gave me. 

FTNW: Needle-free diabetes testing

I have seen various reports on light based glucose testing and one rather extensive bit on why it will be very difficult if even possible. That said it is still in the news and here is the latest from

A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood sample...

..."The new device based on Raman spectroscopy is currently under development and we hope to have a functional prototype in the next two years," Barman told SpectroscopyNOW. "However, at this time, we have a portable instrument, which is relatively large, the size of a shopping cart, and can only be used for clinical studies. In fact, our feasibility studies which will start this Fall will be making use of this portable instrument that can be wheeled into a clinic but cannot be used for personal use."

"We will be starting [clinical] studies in September 2010," Barman told us. "We expect the initial series of studies to complete by the middle of next year. In the first trials, we will be testing our instrumentation and methodologies on healthy human volunteers. In the next set of investigations, we will be incorporating our primary target population of Type I and II diabetics. For our purposes, there is no difference between any diabetic patient (Type I, II or gestational) - however, if successfully implemented our technology would be most beneficial to Type I patients who need to perform 6-12 measurements per day."

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