dev.emcelettronica.com — Diabetes is a disorder that affects the way our body uses food forenergy. Normally, the sugar we take in is digested and broken down to asimple sugar - glucose.But there are good news for all these peoples - aunique miniaturized insulin-delivery pump, developed by Debiotech andindustrialized by STmicroelectronics...
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Closed AccountJul 25, 2008
Its a very good news-A unique miniaturized insulin-delivery pump, developed by Debiotech .
Closed AccountJul 25, 2008
very good
belatedheroJul 25, 2008
My 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.
xbeldinJul 25, 2008
Got any reliable links to back that up?
frosty12Jul 25, 2008
sarcastic or not, you sound like an idiot
Closed AccountJul 25, 2008
How 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.