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Confidence over control – Putting the patient first is the only way to hit diabetes targets.

Diabetes distress is a clinically recognised mental health issue resulting from the constant demands of the condition that people face daily.  With the relentless pressure to keep blood sugar “in...
Cyndi Williams

Progress Over Perfection: Changing the Industry’s Approach to Managing Diabetes

Managing diabetes is an unsolved problem. Day in, day out, people must use trial and error on average 180 times a day. To keep their blood sugar in a range...
Melissa Marshall

Women In Tech: Behind the scenes of a female founded startup

Fundraising: the stats as a female founder Fundraising is hard. I’ve only ever tried it as a woman, so it’s hard to say for sure whether or not I’d find...
Cyndi Williams

Injecting life: a century-old discovery is still my lifeline

2021 marks 100 years since the discovery of insulin, which is incredible! But how do you manage diabetes and your mental wellbeing? Speak your mind In March 2019, I was...
Charlie Granby

The 5 Whys of carb counting

Answering a question as straightforward as ‘Why do people with diabetes carb count?’ is incredibly difficult for people without the experience of living with diabetes. At Quin, only one of...
Raj Patel

What is a Diabetes Decision?

Diabetes decisions are a big part of self-managing diabetes and they are not discussed enough.  Research from Stanford University in 2014 found that people living with type 1 diabetes make...
Raj Patel

7 reasons why you’ll love the Quin app

On the surface, most diabetes apps look the same. Actually, most look the same beneath the surface too.  You fill in forms multiple times a day to log food, insulin...
Raj Patel

The 4 biggest problems with diabetes apps

Have you ever downloaded a diabetes app, used it for a week or two before deciding it wasn’t for you? Did you then try another app in the hope that it...
Raj Patel

Does loving humans make you naive?

And why showing love is desperately needed when building tech for better health.   Using words like “human-centric” or “human-first” feels awkward these days. At least for those of us,...
Vanessa Bolosier

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