Pretty Panties for Pumpers, from A Sweet Life
If you have a pump, you need a “pump place”, like a pocket or bra or thigh thingie. Jessica Apple offered up a bunch of panty options for you to check out, including built-in-pocket-underwear, Swedish-made panties and Canadian custom-made panties....
Track Diabetes Related Bills in Congress
The easiest way to follow congressional bills that you are interested in, go to https://www.govtrack.us/. Be sure to bookmark this site for future reference. Under SEARCH, type in the topic that you want to follow. For example, if you type in CGM today, you will see...
JDRF Demands Coverage of Glucose Monitors: Reprint from LillyPad, 10/30/15
PUBLISHED on 10/20/2015, Lilly’s LillyPad: Today’s guest blog comes to us from Cynthia Rice, the Senior Vice President of Advocacy & Policy at JDRF. She is responsible for JDRF’s advocacy to Congress, the executive branch, regulatory agencies and health...
Wine … good for diabetes?!
According to a New York Times article this week, a study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, people with Type 2 diabetes may benefit from a daily glass of wine, a study says. Israeli researchers randomly assigned 224 patients, all alcohol abstainers with...
The Savvy Diabetic Research and Technology Update: 10/11/2015
Once again, the blogs and websites are filled with news and exciting advances in technology. Here are a few notable ones for the past 2 weeks. Diabetes Research Institute Successfully Transplants First Patient In Pilot BioHub Trial On August 26, 2015, The Diabetes...
Downloading: I don’t always … do you?
Yes, it’s true. I don’t download data from my CGM, pump and meter. And yet, I always include the ability to download my data as one of the important features I want in my devices. So, what’s that all about? According to a survey, presented to a joint meeting of the...
It’s ALL about Google!
… and Dexcom … a powerful partnership. Dexcom announced an agreement with the life sciences team at Google to jointly develop a series of next-gen CGM products that will be designed to be smaller and less expensive than the current Dexcom CGM. They are looking to...
Updates in the D World: Tattoos, Bio-Ink and Patches
Over the past several weeks, it seems that announcements are coming almost every day. Here’s a short list of what’s new. I’d love to know what you think! Are you excited? Skeptical? Confused? From Dr. Joseph Wang’s UC San Diego’s Department of Nanoengineering comes...
Diabetes Research and Technology Update for July 2015
The diabetes world is buzzing with lots of news … here are just a few of the more interesting tidbits! Introducing the iLet: Bionic Pancreas Dual-Chamber Pump Announced at the Friends for Life Conference 2015 The Bionic Pancreas Team, a collaborative group from Boston...
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