Savvy on Milton Packer: Curing Patients is Bad for Business! and Eye Contact?
Gotta love this guy! Dr. Milton Packer writes a column on MedPageToday … and he is just a cool clinical investigator and outspoken honest voice about health care issues. He is an internationally recognized clinical investigator who has made many...
Savvy Eating: Food Tricks, Nuts, Food Lies, What To Eat? and Top Food Tips
Diabetes Food Tricks and What I Really Eat is a great primer on figuring out good stuff to eat, by Adam Brown of diaTribe.org, 27 July 2017. Adam wrote the book, Bright Spots & Landmines: The Diabetes Guide I Wish Someone Had Handed Me, and here is a bit...
Savvy Updates, 4/27/18: 90-Day Sensor, SGLT-2 Inhibitors, Pancreas Quiz
A 90-Day CGM? FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Senseonics’ Eversense, all about the FDA recommendation for the 90-day implantable CGM, was reported by Ben Pallant, Maeve Serino and Adam Brown on diaTribe.com, 12 April, 2018. On March 29, an advisory panel recommended...
Savvy Monday Fun: This is What Caffeine Does to Your Brain
Be a Savvy Insurance Consumer : No Small Voice and The Insurance Survey 2018
Insurance Satisfaction Survey Results Deep Dive: TOP CHALLENGES was published by Brenda Hunter, NoSmallVoice.com, 15 February 2018 … and the results are NOT surprising! I met Brenda Hunter, Co-Founder of No Small Voice at a diabetes innovation summit … and...
Savvy about the New Complication: Getting Older with Type 1 Diabetes
Just when you thought you knew of all the challenging complications of living with Type 1 diabetes … aging with Type 1 diabetes. I think I can track back some of these changes to my mid 50’s and perimenopause/menopause. Without the hormonal...
Savvy Food: Healthy Food Swaps, Be a Polite T1 Guest, Foods to Lower Blood Pressure
10 Healthy Foods offers some great tips on substituting one ingredient for a healthier option … written by Erin Palinski-Wade on OnTrackDiabetes.com. After you see how easy and delicious it is to eat healthier versions of favorite foods you may never go...
Want to Donate Your Pancreas? Learn about the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD)
The Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) is a collaborative type 1 diabetes research project funded by JDRF. nPOD supports scientific investigators by providing, without cost, rare and difficult to obtain tissues beneficial to their research. nPOD...
Savvy Updates 10 April 2018 FOLLOW THE $$: Lilly in our Future, JDRF Early Stage Investment Fund, New Infusion Technology
Eli Lilly ponies up $63M for Sigilon’s diabetes cell therapies, according to Amirah Al Adrus of FierceBiotech.com, 4 April 2018. Eli Lilly is continuing its push into new diabetes products, paying $63 million up front to get its hands on Sigilon Therapeutics’...
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