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29 Comments
- xhikari, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10Beats insulin injection for sure...less annoying too but I am not sure about how annoying insulin injections are....
- crazymaster16, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7the technology is the future :)
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5I'm a little confused about this post. They're advertising a new disposable insulin pump, but insulin pumps cost like nine thousand dollars. Not joking. The ad, or whatever it is is hawking this disposable pump, but the guy in the video is using a minimed pump (the nine thousand dollar kind) which is certainly not disposable, (unless you can dispose of nine thousand dollars once a week) and it isn't even the one they appear to be hawking. Finally, insulin pumps have been widely available since...like 1983, and were invented well before that.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6There is a medicinal cure out there that doesn't require getting surgery and increasing chronic risk of infection.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3To what? Type I diabetes? You're kidding, right?
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4 Its a very good news-A unique miniaturized insulin-delivery pump, developed by Debiotech .
- becurious, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2if you reallt want to buy it contact Debiotech
http://www.debiotech.com/ - xBeldin, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Got any reliable links to back that up?
- emberjohn, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2from where i can buy this gadget ?
- xBeldin, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I agree for children this might not be the best option but for most adults the pump is perfect.
- GuitarHeroDenn, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3Diabeetus
- Frosty12, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2sarcastic or not, you sound like an idiot
- crazymaster16, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1i don't know
ask in the site - merkal2005, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Very good news
- naveen5n, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1good news, i will tell to my grandmother and father
- Thuktun, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1This is somewhat inaccurate. Type II diabetics are insulin resistant. Often their bodies produce plentiful insulin, but for some poorly-understood reason the body is resistant to it.
Curiously, the high glucose levels that come with insulin resistence can kill off the cells that produce insulin, so type II diabetics can become dependent on insulin injections as well. This would probably help those folks. - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1very good
- maxino, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1It would be interesting to know this information:
Amount of annual military investment Vs investment in R&D in Medical Tech
and again
Cost of a single "smart" bomb Vs Public spending for each chronic ill - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1The future is technology!
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1How is it a break through? It's an insulin pump. That's not a break through. The only thing I can see here is that it's a little smaller than pumps that cost thousands of dollars. All this means is that the insulin reservoir holding the insulin would last two days instead of six days because a smaller device holds less liquid insulin. They say it's disposable, but I can't imagine a piece of microelectronics smart enough to do the work of an insulin pump does and containing the mechanical parts an insulin pump must contain being disposable after a single use while it is still cost effective compared to a regular insulin pump. The guy in the video isn't even using the pump they have pictured here, he's using a mainstream brand of non-disposable insulin pump that costs thousands of dollars. This is a page full of unanswered questions, and the site for the actual product someone linked to above is not better. An insulin pump is not a device you would want to order from just any place on the internet that doesn't have stringent quality control methods in place.
- BelatedHero, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1True. Especially the elderly.
- danj321, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Do they Sure diabetes or cure diabetes. Cause if they sure them, Count me in!
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Insulin pumps help type 1 diabetics alot. If the type two insulin insensitivity is well advanced, type IIs can benefit from using an insulin pump as well.
- BelatedHero, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1My 12-year old cousin has Type I diabetes. He's very athletic, and from what I understand these insulin pumps also limit the amount of physical activities one can engage in. Being hooked up to something like that and having to carry it around all the time (no matter how small) would seem to me to be more of a hassle than the constant injections (after eating anything that contains carbohydrates). It's amazing how such a young kid is able to deal with the testing, carb and insulin unit calculations, and the injections on his own, though.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1thanks for the info
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1I know of products which sure diabetes, which are natural and the FDA hates them. WHY? Because they will lose gazillions in profits. Will the real drug cartel please stand up?
- jupaneanu, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1wow, now this is what I call a huge medical breakthrough
- maxino, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1I don't think it's a money problem. The government can fund the National Health Service instead of bombing around the world....
- ramsinks.com, on 07/25/2008, -2/+1Just start taking care of yourself?
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