Sundance Buzz - PSA

From the Department of Home Land Entertainment: Chris Sparling's Buried will have a trailer shown on ET tonight. 1/19 Tune in!

Dexcom as Entertainment News

I took one for the DOC team and listened to the Dexcom presentation at the 28th Annual JP Morgan Health Conference. You don’t have to.

You are welcome.


After a fair amount of opening material for the folks who not only don’t know what Dexcom does or what diabetes is, (about 15 to 16 minutes) it got a little more interesting. That is when Terry Gregg talked about coming attractions.

PREVIEWS!

Always one of my favorites at the local Multi Plex. Here is what you can expect in this summer's block busters: Lt. Uhura is on the case and she found an open COM channel. Dex will talk to pumps, Animas and Omni pod were specifically seen in the trailer. The expectation is it will be in theaters this year (2010.) YDMV. Yeah Lt Uhura! Must be the next generation hot, smart and unimpressed buy the new Kirk, Uhura. (Wait! Wasn’t Newkirk on Hogans Heros before kissing all the ladies on that game show?)

Dexcom the next generation is coming too, where in Geordi La Forge will tweak the warp drive and they will be able to have the replicator produce more and better sensors. Also in the “Mid Term” Next Gen, faster tricorder warm up and better accuracy via more groovy math. So I guess it will also feature Charlie Eppes from NUMB3RS. Also this Mid Term starts to get more interesting as Dexcom moves the glucose engine to the transmitter. The intent is open architecture on the receiver end. Think Phones. Yes Terry mentioned the 'produce' brand names of phones (apples and berries) as likely open source receivers.

Skipping out of the entertainment news and into the business section. Animas pays out big when Dexcom get the regulatory blessing of a CE mark. $5 million. They also pay Dex $200 for every non USA pump sold with the integrated CGM. That is expected this year too. Now if I was the type to speculate without any knowledge, facts, wisdom or anything else resembling a clue, I would think J&J would be looking to buy the whole company outright at that point but that would be baseless and totally irresponsible of me.

So for families dealing looking for integrated CGM options 2010 should be a good year both in and outside the US of A.

Live Long and Prosper.

(Oh and the real entertainment Buzz at Sundance is on a flick called Buried.)

JDRF Animas Dexcom in Artificial Pancreas Agreement

Thanks Kerri for breaking this news on Twitter: Press Release

I gotta go read it more carefully.

BG on DS no BS II: The FDA Clearance.

Last summer I wrote about Bayer's Nintendo DS bases BG Meter.

http://www.ydmv.net/2009/07/bg-on-ds-no-bs.html

Then it was a UK only deal as it needed to run through the FDA 510k process.

I said then, "This ain't Brimmley's meter."

Well what should my wondering eye see when I was skimming along the FDA Web Site? Clearance.

COOL!

Wonder when it is coming to market?

Yo Twitterers

Attention: Twitterers er... Tweeters ah... Twits?

Pls take a min to nominate @tudiabetes 4 the Shorty Awards #health category http://shortyawards.com/category/health

That is all


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Little Help?

One of my fellow diabetes blog friends needs your two bits.

For anyone still wondering about that blogger summit this kind of thing is the biggest outcome. We know eachother well enough to reach out fir eachothers help. That is a good thing.

Here goes:

William riosdad(at)plateautel.net wrote:
Gang--

So my next project is going to be a Type-3 manual, a book for those poor people that are stuck with us T-1s and T-2s in their lives. I think I've got all the bases covered in my outline, but I'd love feedback from persons with diabetes about what they wish their loved ones knew, what they wish they would do, and what they wish they
wouldn't do. I'd also like to hear from more mates and parents to get their views on what they wish someone had told them in the beginning.

Could you possibly post some sort of info request for me on your uber-blogs?

And of course I would greatly value your personal thoughts and insights as well.

Thanks
Will


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The Insulin Market - A Great Post By Scott S.

An outstanding overview of the insulin products that are in the pipeling.

Click here to read it.

Thanks Scott.

Kerri's Two Sentences

are the best two I have ever read about being a partent of a T1 child.

She wrote it the other way around as at T1 mom to her growing baby. Yet her words are still brilliant as the voice of The Fear deep down inside of a parent with T1 kiddos. Technology not withstanding, we still have diabetes. Diabetes is silent and does obscene things inside our heads and hearts. We pretend everything is alright, most of the time it kinda is, so we pretend away. But that bit is there raging inside of me, the part that can't take this away from my daughter.

Thanks Kerri for putting word to it.

I just feel like a failure, frustrated to tears because no matter how much
technology we have access to as modern-day diabetics, we still have
diabetes. And this obscene disease looks so quiet from the outside, but it
rages on inside of me every day, even when I'm working so hard to pretend to be
cured for my daughter.

Oh and pancakes are a brilliant suggestion. I think I'll make'm for dinner.

Oh Food Label - How You Taunt Me

When we learn the whole carb counting thing is all about counting every little bit, reading every label and all kinds of math that seem to require a super computer. Think some dusty old British type spouting on, "Precision. That the thing. Precision." (Yes my friends at Shoot up or Put Up I am mocking y'all. I have been watching a lot of BBC and you Brits are on my mind - blame it on Top Gear.)

Well my friends guess What? Food labels aren't always accurate: Food Calorie Counts Are Frequently Off.

I know. I was SHOCKED too! OK maybe not.

If calories are off, can carbs be far behind? I think not. So there is a margin of error from the label and there is a 'range' of accuracy on the meter. YDMV.

At least there is a wide range of things to blame for random strange numbers.

I think it is the Brits fault. If nothing else blaming them is a time honored tradition here in the Colonies.

A Contributing Factor…

… really?

Gossip headlines today are talking about diabetes as a factor in the death of Casey Johnson, daughter of the owner of the NY Jets and J&J heir. Some articles mention a history of substance abuse. Most articles feature a relationship with the famously stable Tila Tequila. (Maybe I got that famous for bit wrong.) Her reported tweets put the twit in twitter.

Surprisingly one of the articles does a good job of differentiation between T1 and T2. How can a gossip bit get that and general 'journalism' can't?

YDMV. A history of substance abuse not so much vary. Substance abuse is a downhill ride.

Sadly a young woman’s life has been cut short. In her passing there will be an increase in the ‘awareness’ of the risk of living with type 1. Loosely translated that means we (and we very much includes our kids in school) will likely be hearing comments based on the headlines.

This post is a heads up to take a second to compose your thoughts and be prepared for the comments. I see it as an opportunity to talk not about passing away from complications of hard living but to look to examples where diabetes is a contributing factor to living well.

We can prep our kids to be ready to say, “That why I test, that is why I pump.”

There is no such thing as a perfect diabetic but there are lots of examples of people who make diabetes and ability not a disability. The DOC is knee deep in them.

Beyond that and maybe even instead, I encourage every parent to talk to your kids, not about diabetes but about a shared passion in life. Talk with your kids about what they love; acting, athletics, cooking, studies, reading, film, art, or in or case Top Gear.

Delaney and I are counting the days until the new Top Gear season on BBC America. It something we do together, has nothing to do with diabetes and we love it.

Quality time is where you find it. It is a contributing factor to a life well lived.