More Investigations: Insulin Quality? Aetna’s Faulty Clinical Review Process?
Wow, the shock waves continue! Insulin quality questions have diabetes experts scrambling was reported by Linda Johnson on APNews.com, 7 February 2017. Really?!?!? Preliminary research suggesting that some diabetes patients may be injecting medicine that has...
From InsulinNation: Diabetes Language: nicknames, phrases and combo words
This is just fun! What are some “languages of love” for all parts of our lives with Type 1 Diabetes? What do you call your devices, your challenges, your life with diabetes? From Audrey Farley of InsulinNation.com, 23 January 2018 …...
Breaking news: Congress just passed a two-year renewal of the Special Diabetes Program (SDP)!
Breaking news—Congress just passed a two-year renewal of the Special Diabetes Program (SDP)! This is terrific news, and a hard-fought victory for people with diabetes. The SDP renewal brings $300 million in new funding for type 1 diabetes research and $300...
Savvy about Prior Authorization Requests … you’ll be shocked!
Who Actually Is Reviewing All Those Preauthorization Requests? was posted on MedPage Today, 8 November 2017 by Milton Packer, MD … a very interesting read. Have you or your medical team ever been annoyed by your insurance company requiring a “Prior...
Savvy Meets David Brownstein and Noodle (D.A.D.)
I am very pleased to introduce you to David Brownstein and his diabetes alert dog, Noodle. I may be entirely biased … but Noodle is TOTALLY ADORABLE and AMAZING! I met David, Noodle and Lindsay (David’s wife) several months back …...
Savvy PSA: If You Are Sick (Symptomatic), STAY HOME!
We are in the midst of a very challenging cold and flu season … worst we’ve had in many many years. As Moira McCarthy reports on ASweetLife.org, … “the flu season is at its peak, and it’s especially severe this year. Emergency rooms are...
Savvy Updates, 1/31/2018: Big $$ for AP, Foot Ulcer Therapy, Diabetes in India
Big Money in Diabetes Devices! Bigfoot raises $37M to trial AI-enabled insulin delivery devices Beta Bionics takes step toward $25M financing round Chinese buyers mull bids for Johnson & Johnson’s $4B diabetes unit Dermapace System stimulates wound...
The DiaBadass Tour Visits the Savvy Diabetic
The DiaBadass Tour, which launched on Wednesday, January 10 in San Clemente, visited 2 of us long-time T1’s for lunch on Monday, January 15, 2018! You are probably just shaking your heads and asking, WHAT? A DiaBadass: A Person who has diabetes and...
Happy Diaversary to ME! 53 years!
DIAVERSARY: day of diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes MY DIAVERSARY: Monday, 25 January 1965, 53 years ago. Diagnosed in office of my pediatrician, Dr. Maxwell Stillerman, in his home office on Polo Road in Great Neck, NY. I hadn’t felt well...
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