Savvy LOOPing: What is LOOPing?

Savvy LOOPing: What is LOOPing?

Feb 5, 2017 | LOOPing

LOOPing is the latest and coolest new buzzword in the diabetes community.  It is often synonymous with artificial pancreas but I resist the urge to confuse the two. Looping, either in the do-it-yourself d-community or waiting for the traditional corporate new...
Savvy? NO! Prior Authorization

Savvy? NO! Prior Authorization

Jan 23, 2017 | Featured

Please indulge me in a little rant, in what I am calling, Savvy? NO! This one is about prior authorizations that are increasingly required by our insurance companies before they agree to fill prescriptions or authorize payment for procedures. Here is Wikipedia’s...
Savvy Legends: Eva Saxl, T1 Made Her Insulin during WWII

Savvy Legends: Eva Saxl, T1 Made Her Insulin during WWII

Jan 22, 2017 | Featured

This is an amazing story I stumbled upon from diabetes.co.uk, adapted from dLife.com and diabeteshealth.com. Eva Saxl was 19 in 1940, living with her husband, Victor, in Shanghai after fleeing Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.  She developed T1 and was put on insulin....
Savvy Closed Loop Update, January 2017

Savvy Closed Loop Update, January 2017

Jan 11, 2017 | Featured

FROM Diatribe.org, 12/14/2016 : When JDRF started the Artificial Pancreas Project in 2006, the idea of automating insulin delivery using a standard insulin pump, a CGM, and a control algorithm seemed crazy to many patients. Even back in the early 2000s, researchers...
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