May 5, 2021 | Eating, Featured
Today is Cinqo de Mayo, which commemorates the Mexican Army’s victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. Even if this is not your holiday, you can expect to see/hear lots of...
May 3, 2021 | Featured, Research News
FDA Approves Dapagliflozin (Farxiga) for Chronic Kidney Disease was reported by Susan Jeffrey for Medscape.com, 30 April 2021. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved dapagliflozin (Farxiga, AstraZeneca) to reduce the risk for...
Apr 30, 2021 | Featured, Pets
By now you must be wondering if there is a new trend of T1Ds raising chickens! I don’t know but maybe!!! Please meet, again, Gail (T1D, business owner, fiddle player, stand-up jokester and vocalist) and her husband Michael, who I featured over...
Apr 28, 2021 | Featured, Foods, Videos
Do you bolus for fats & protein? Or only carbs, as we’ve been long taught? This is a great presentation from Children with Diabetes, with Dr. Laya Ekhlaspour and a discussion about why post-meal glucose control is challenging for people...
Apr 26, 2021 | Featured, Research News, Technology Updates, Videos
A Real-World Prospective Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of the Loop Open Source Automated Insulin Delivery System was published on Liebertpub.com, 12 April 2021. This is a very exciting and important study, validating the effectiveness and safety of those...
Apr 23, 2021 | Featured, Pets
What fun to share dear Theresa’s baby chicks!!! We featured her amazing cockapoo, Rocky (https://thesavvydiabetic.com/savvy-pets-2-28-20-meet-rocky-the-snuggling-cockapoo-and-whiskey-knows-her-toys/) just a few months ago. But wait … NOW, you get to...
Apr 21, 2021 | Featured, Technology Updates
Have you ever had pump/pod infusion failures without alerts until you figure it out with rapidly rising BGs????? Do you think there should be a better early warning system? Did you know that the amount of insulin delivered by a pump is a captured dataset? Why...
Apr 19, 2021 | Featured, Research News, Technology Updates
FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation for novel type 1 diabetes pill was reported by Regina Schaffer for Healio.com/endocrinology, 14 April 2021. The FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation for TTP399 as an adjunctive therapy to insulin for the...
Apr 16, 2021 | Featured, Pets
OH MY … please meet Callie, T1D, real estate agent and D advocate who does a lot of volunteer work in the diabetes community … was even a part of Tour de Cure New England (team name: Team DiaBeat-it). And most interesting and fun … Callie lives...
Apr 14, 2021 | Featured, Research News, Technology Updates
The Loop and Learn T1D Speakers series hosted the 3 founders of Digital Diabetes Analytics, all the way from Sweden. It was a very interesting presentation, about their work to develop algorithms for machine learning, based on CGM data, for their current...
