Over 200 diabetics injured as app controlling insulin pump malfunctions
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall for version 2.7 of the t:connect app, an iOS application that controls insulin pumps for diabetes patients. The recall was prompted by a software glitch causing the app to crash and relaunch continuously on iPhones in a never-ending loop. This malfunction resulted in sending excessive Bluetooth signals to the paired t:slim X2 insulin pump, developed by Tandem Diabetes Care, thereby draining its battery rapidly, and causing over 200 injuries.