[Diabetes-talk] talking insulin pump remote: Pump Mate

Sun Apr 11 20:29:59 UTC 2010

Mike:

It is what I believe and because you don't agree with it doesn't make my 
thinking or Debbie's false or faulty.  Perhaps you should examine your own 
line of thinking on the subject and try to keep an open mind to see both 
sides of what goes on.  Its one opinion against another.  How many medical 
studies are done that get primary funding by huge drug companies.  You think 
those outcomes aren't getting slanted by the large drug corps that pay their 
bills?

30, 20, 10, 5 years before year Y2K I kept hearing year after year, "by the 
end of THIS century there will be a cure for diabetes."  Well, year 2000 
came and went. And, now here we are another 10 years into the new century 
and I don't see any cure near at hand.   I do see pharmaceutical ad after ad 
promoting this drug or that drug to treat diabetes along with a myriad of 
horrible complications noted that can result from taking the drugs, but no 
cure in sight.

I have no problems with drug companies turning an honest profit -- it's the 
American way and its a driving factor in our economy.  Its the way it is. 
However, these companies put a lot of plain and simple crap on the market, 
push it onto the doctors to give out to us as samples and then as full-time 
prescription drugs.  You ever listen to the commercials on TV for some of 
these drugs?  You ever listen to the list of serious & often 
life-threatening complications you can get from taking their treatments?  I 
think in many cases, I would prefer the disease and the complications that 
result from the illness.  I'm not saying either that they should stop trying 
to find a better way, but perhaps be a bit more ethical about it and start 
thinking about creating things that will not cause other problems.

Do you recall the wonder drug, Resulin (excuse the spelling) that was out a 
few years ago that diabetics were given?  How many people suffered 
liver/kidney failure and who knows what other really bad complications 
develop from the drug?

Again, far to much money has exchanged hands over far too many years for 
them not to have made further progress towards finding a cure.  We are all 
as Bernadette stated earlier their "Bread & Butter!"  We are each and every 
one of us the working gears in a multi-billion dollar machine.

Eileen

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] talking insulin pump remote: Pump Mate

> Eileen:
>
> All I can say is "amen" to your diabetes philosophy. However, I strongly 
> disagree with your opinion that we won't find a cure for diabetes in the 
> immediate future because there's too much money to be made from diabetes 
> treatment. I know this view is quite widespread; I'm sure Debby would 
> subscribe to it also. But, in my opinion, it is wide of the mark and 
> exhibits a basic fallacy in thinking.
>
> The purpose of drug companies -- those ogres making all that ill-gotten 
> money off of us diabetics -- is to make a prophet for their stockholders. 
> Put more simply, their purpose is to make money by developing and 
> manufacturing drugs and devices to ameliorate or cure pain and other 
> vexing side-effects of diseases and, in some instances, to cure them. 
> Their purpose is not, as some would have it, to do basic research to find 
> cures for disease. That is the province of academia. There is no hidden 
> agenda to keep a cure for diabetes from us; it's just that basic research 
> takes time, effort and money (and Federal subsidies for basic research 
> have been cut back by Congress of late). And diabetes, be it Type 1 or 
> Type 2, is a very complex disease (or, more accurately, is a whole slew of 
> complex diseases which may or may not interact and whose cures may have 
> wider consequences, at least in terms of what we currently know of Type 1 
> which affects the immune system).
>
> Please read Gretchen Becker's article at:
>

> http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/5068/106677/cure
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "eileen scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] talking insulin pump remote: Pump Mate
>
>
>> Debbie:
>>
>> I'll be the first to say diabetes "SUCKS!" But, we're stuck with it and 
>> have to do our best to live with it and manage it.  I'd love a cure to 
>> come along and rid me of the disease that took my eyesight and was the 
>> cause of a brothers death.  I think most all of us on the list would like 
>> a cure, but its just not in the cards right now so we all have to deal 
>> with the disease and its complications and frustrations.
>>
>> I don't believe there will be a cure, there's too much money in the 
>> business of treating diabetes rather than curing it. I know it can be 
>> very stressful, try to hang tough and not give up on living a life to the 
>> best and fullest you can even with all the crappy parts of diabetes.
>>
>> Lacking a cure, we still need ways as blind/visually impaired diabetics 
>> to help us manage our control.
>>
>> Eileen
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Debbie Fredericks" <catdancing at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 7:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] talking insulin pump remote: Pump Mate
>>
>>
>>> from the sounds of things on this list. a cure for diabetes is not even 
>>> a desire here.
>>> i don't want anything but a cure and the medical field can shove there 
>>> bull.
>>> Debbie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Chanelle Hill <chanellemh at gmail.com>
>>> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 1:43:38 PM
>>> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] talking insulin pump remote: Pump Mate
>>>
>>> Dear list,
>>> I don't know if this information has been posted yet, but it is super 
>>> excited. A talking remote is being made for the insulin pump. The remote 
>>> is being made by a company called Access Solutions www.axsol.com. I just 
>>> spoke with James Kubel, the engineer who created the Pump Mate. He has 
>>> had diabetes for 40 years and was frustrated by the lack of a talking 
>>> insulin pump and the fact that there was no interest in producing one by 
>>> insulin pump companies. The website for the Pump Mate is 
>>> www.pump-mate.com
>>> James is trying to get Medtronic Minimed's cooperation and support in 
>>> developing and producing the Pump Mate. It would be great if those who 
>>> are interested could contact Minimed to express interest in the pump 
>>> mate and desire that Minimed would help to market and produce it.
>>> With the Pump Mate, it is possible to program basal rates, use the Bolis 
>>> Wizzard, and hear test results from the meters that Minimed has 
>>> specifically designed to transfer data to and from the insulin pump. 
>>> This has amazing potential since the Pump Mate could someday be used in 
>>> conjunction with the continuous glucose monitoring system.
>>> I have pasted James's contact information below, and I am sending him a 
>>> carbon copy of this message in case he would like to join the list or 
>>> provide feedback.
>>>
>>> Access Solutions
>>> james at axsol.com
>>> sales: (916) 481-3559
>>>
>>> Chanelle
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