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1. Managing Sick Days

   When you're feeling ill, you'd like nothing more than to lie in bed with a good book or movie. Yet that's when you need to focus even more on diabetes self-care. The key to sick days with diabetes is doing all of the thinking ahead of time. ...

2. Future of Diabetes Treatment

   Diabetes care has come a long way in just a few decades—after all, the first insulin pump was introduced in 1963, and fingerprick tests for personal blood glucose monitoring have only been around since the mid-1980s. So what's next? In development: ...

3. Easy Tips for Testing Your Blood Sugar

   Whether you check your blood glucose level once a week, once a day, or 6 times a day, learning how to make testing easy and less painful may inspire you to test more often. For people with diabetes, the knowledge that you gain from testing more often is ...

4. Clixmotion® Technology ensures controlled movement.

   n the skin, the lancet is brought to a gentle stop, referred to as Soft Stop, and then actively retracted immediately in a linear motion. This fast, controlled motion is noticeably easier on the skin. Gentle through and through Special cut of the lancet ...

5. Performa Red

   The meter that thinks for itself! The new Accu-Chek Performa offers great performance due to its intelligent safety checks. The Performa technology enables a precise interaction of meter, test strip and safety chip. With each measurement the system checks ...

6. 5 Tips for gentle blood sampling

   Lancing fingers is a vital part of daily diabetes management. In a recent study, up to 35% of the participants stated that pain is the main reason people with diabetes refrain from regular blood glucose testing. 1,2 One factor contributing to greater pain ...

7. Living in Range

   When you find your mind wandering—thinking about the future—what do you see?  Whether you dream about taking photos somewhere amazing or starting a family, or you'd simply like to have more energy or sleep through the night, keeping your blood ...

8. Blood glucose meter accuracy

   When you check your blood sugar, it's easy to assume that the meter will give you an accurate result. However, a meter's accuracy depends upon a lot of factors. Roche, the maker of Accu-Chek products, believes that you deserve a reliable meter ...

9. Blood Sugar Test Results Help You Take Control

   Testing your own blood sugar helps you take control of your health, especially once you learn what your test result numbers mean, and what to do with them. Recent research, the Structured Testing Protocol (STeP) study, offers the proof. The study ...

10. So why pump?

    How about more freedom... With an Accu-Chek ® insulin pump, you can eat what you want when you want, without a lot of food/insulin “juggling.” Better health… Health risks are reduced by up to 76% The precise insulin doses that you can achieve with a pump ...

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