Cool Ice Box company This is a brief round-up of diabetes kit that can help to keep your insulin cool when travelling with diabetes. COOL ICE BOX:  The Cool Ice Box Company has a wide range of cool box products for carrying medicines mainly read more »

Over the end of May bank holiday, 12 diabetes dads completed a bike ride from London to Paris to support research into Type 1 diabetes on behalf of JDRF. All 12 men have children with diabetes. They took four days to cycle read more »

Tandem’s t:Slim X2 insulin pump This insulin pump from an American manufacturer is set to create a stir in Britain, bringing slim, simple and sophisticated options to the choice currently available. At the end of April American-based Tandem Diabetes Care, a medical device read more »

Thanks to Jen Grieves for sharing her travel exploits with us. “Earlier this year I was lucky enough to head to South Africa for work for a month (I know, tough gig…) I couldn’t resist the opportunity to add a few weeks onto read more »

Like most people, I like travelling, but it can be a bit stressful especially when you have to take extra care when planning and packing regarding your diabetes kit, particularly with a view to . to A few years ago I put read more »

IDx, a privately-held AI diagnostics company, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company’s De Novo request to market IDx-DR, an AI-based diagnostic system for the autonomous detection of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. read more »

JDRF, the UK Type 1 diabetes charity and INPUT Patient Advocacy, the UK diabetes technology advocacy charity, have announced plans to combine their organisations in order to work together to improve the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes. This merger will read more »

TickleFLEX is a very simple award-winning device that fits on the needle of an insulin pen and distracts the pain signals, hides the needle, gathers a small fold of subcutaneous tissue and secures the needle in place, making the whole injecting process read more »

ViaCyte, a beta cell technology company funded by JDRF, has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to support the further development of its work. In read more »

It’s that time of year when we throw our flipflops in our holdalls and pack our passports as we head off on our hols. In case you are travelling soon, we have a downloadable checklist for you to use as an ‘aide read more »