MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'diabetes test strips'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4285352&cid=t_140556_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FWExP1Mt3GvU%2F Normally, glucose test strips don’t land on many radar screens in a big way, but when a company recalls 359 million of them - that’s right, 359 million - it’s hard not to notice. But that’s exactly what Abbott Laboratories has done because its strips may give false low blood glucose readings. This, of course, can have serious implications, because false results may lead patients to try to raise their blood glucose unnecessarily, or fail to treat elevated blood glucose. The strips are marketed under such brand names as Precision Xceed Pro, Precision Xtra, Medisense Optium, Optium, OptiumEZ and ReliOn Ultima, which were distributed in the US and Puerto Rico. How much this will cost Abbott is not yet clear. But the drug and device maker is still suffering from the fall... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4285352 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:16:11 +0100 4285352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512565&cid=t_140556_134_f&fid=36012&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBattleDiabetes%2F%7E3%2F2yOpg6-ZpEw%2F LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company and makers of the OneTouch® Brand of diabetes testing supplies, has identified several incidents of counterfeit OneTouch® Ultra® and OneTouch® (Basic®/Profile®) Test Strips. These test strips being sold in the United States are intended for use with various models of LifeScan’s OneTouch® Brand Blood Glucose Monitors used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose(1). Source: LifeScan, Inc. · OneTouch® Ultra® Test Strips – Genuine(L) Counterfeit® · Click Here to Download Image Performance testing of the counterfeit test strips obtained by LifeScan to date shows erratic test results that do not meet LifeScan’s performance specifications. It is unknown how counterfeit test strips which may be in the... Battle Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512565 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:44:22 +0100 2512565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2354017&cid=t_140556_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FAxIhr0WvBUA%2F5-ways-to-control-the-cost-of-diabetes.php Let's continue our discussion of health care costs by looking at diabetes in particular. Here are five practical suggestions for lowering the total cost of having a lifetime of diabetes. Get rid of the term "pre-diabetes". Delete this word from the dictionary because it does more harm than good. If someone has started down the path towards insulin resistance, there is no going back. It may be controlled by weight... (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2354017 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:04:07 +0100 2354017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=805907&cid=t_140556_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F08%2F17%2Fcounterfeit-test-strips-traced-to-china%2F Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, Daily News, CareYou pull out a test strip, prick your finger, place a drop of blood on the end of the strip and stick it into your meter. A few seconds later, voila, an accurate blood sugar -- unless you have purchased a counterfeit test strip. Last September, diabetics in the U.S. and Canada started calling Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) LifeScan hotline, complaining their OneTouch Test Strips were faulty. Without a prescription, the test strips sell for about $1.00 per strip, in boxes of 25, 50 and 100. We all know there are many diabetics out there without health insurance, one of the worst injustices of our country. I get sick to my stomach when I think of the uninsured shelling out $100 to $200 for a month's supply of strips. No... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=805907 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 805907