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...
SAVVY UPDATES 1/10/2017: Fun Tidbits

SAVVY UPDATES 1/10/2017: Fun Tidbits

Jan 10, 2017 | A Little Humor, Featured

A WOMAN with TYPE1 is the Next UK Prime Minister!  Thanks to InsulinNation, Theresa May became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July 2016! May was diagnosed with T1 in November 2012 at age 56, and uses daily insulin injections. Read more: Will a Woman with Type...
Savvy NEW Apps

Savvy NEW Apps

Dec 15, 2016 | Featured

I recently attended the DiabetesMine D-Data Exchange and Innovation Summit at UCSF.  Several app developers displayed their new products … just so you know what’s out there.   Sugar.IQ (a collaboration between Medtronic and IBM Watson) uses Medtronic...
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