Never underestimate the shady underbelly of the legal profession.
Signing a waiver may protect the treatment center and the doctors, but a savvy lawyer could still go after the web site that gave you the address in the first place, or the newspaper in your example for colluding with the researchers. Unless you have to sign a waiver to read the paper?
My daughter is five years old and was diagnosed with Type I when she was 15 months old. She was on injected insulin 3-4 times per day until this past October when we got her a Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm 712 insulin pump. Along the way she used the Bayer Glucometer Elite (now Ascensia), the OneTouch Ultra and now the Paradigm Link meter (by B-D) that works with her pump. Her first two meters both had the ability to connect to a Windows-based PC using a proprietary cable to a serial port. I bought both cables, and used them a total of maybe four times. It was cumbersome to get to the serial port on my computer, and the software provided was not good (although the Bayer WinGlucofacts wasn't too bad). Perhaps a USB connection would make more sense.
The things I liked about the meters was their simplicity. I like the fact that all of the graphing and trending requires data upload to a computer. On the meter itself, about all you could do was see a 14- or 30-day average, plus recall (through monotonous pushing of the single multi-function button) the last few hundred readings. We only ever need to check the most recent one anyway, so scrolling through wasn't much of an issue. But the fewer the knobs and switches on the meter itself, the fewer things can go wrong.
I'm neutral on the question of one strip at a time versus the cartridge-loaded multiple strip meters. I can see how that could be handy, but all of her meters have been one at a time and it doesn't really bother me. What is more important in terms of the strips is the smaller the amount of blood they require, the better. It's tough to get a decent amount of blood out of an infant's finger, and even now it's nice that her current meter needs only 0.3 microliters since it allows us to use a lower setting on the lancet device, which reduces the likelihood of calluses.
The one improvement I would make to all of the meters is the addition of a backlight for the primary display, and perhaps an LED light for the "business end" where the strip is. We have to check her blood at 2:00 AM to watch for lows, and turning on the lights in the room sometimes wakes both kids.
I would also echo the suggestion another poster made about getting a meter and performing checks on yourself for a while. It's really the only way you can truly understand.
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Signing a waiver may protect the treatment center and the doctors, but a savvy lawyer could still go after the web site that gave you the address in the first place, or the newspaper in your example for colluding with the researchers. Unless you have to sign a waiver to read the paper?
Not to be overly pedantic, but if you're referring to the assassin droid from Knights of the Old Republic, it was HK-47.
Although I'm sure the memory core from a Kalashnikov would fill the bill as well.
My daughter is five years old and was diagnosed with Type I when she was 15 months old. She was on injected insulin 3-4 times per day until this past October when we got her a Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm 712 insulin pump. Along the way she used the Bayer Glucometer Elite (now Ascensia), the OneTouch Ultra and now the Paradigm Link meter (by B-D) that works with her pump. Her first two meters both had the ability to connect to a Windows-based PC using a proprietary cable to a serial port. I bought both cables, and used them a total of maybe four times. It was cumbersome to get to the serial port on my computer, and the software provided was not good (although the Bayer WinGlucofacts wasn't too bad). Perhaps a USB connection would make more sense.
The things I liked about the meters was their simplicity. I like the fact that all of the graphing and trending requires data upload to a computer. On the meter itself, about all you could do was see a 14- or 30-day average, plus recall (through monotonous pushing of the single multi-function button) the last few hundred readings. We only ever need to check the most recent one anyway, so scrolling through wasn't much of an issue. But the fewer the knobs and switches on the meter itself, the fewer things can go wrong.
I'm neutral on the question of one strip at a time versus the cartridge-loaded multiple strip meters. I can see how that could be handy, but all of her meters have been one at a time and it doesn't really bother me. What is more important in terms of the strips is the smaller the amount of blood they require, the better. It's tough to get a decent amount of blood out of an infant's finger, and even now it's nice that her current meter needs only 0.3 microliters since it allows us to use a lower setting on the lancet device, which reduces the likelihood of calluses.
The one improvement I would make to all of the meters is the addition of a backlight for the primary display, and perhaps an LED light for the "business end" where the strip is. We have to check her blood at 2:00 AM to watch for lows, and turning on the lights in the room sometimes wakes both kids.
I would also echo the suggestion another poster made about getting a meter and performing checks on yourself for a while. It's really the only way you can truly understand.