I didn’t want to do it. I resisted for well over a year. I was happy with my Dexcom G4 with Share. It worked perfectly. I don’t have insurance coverage for CGM so switching to G5 would cost me more money. The G5 transmitters last exactly 6 months...
There’s a “new” artificial pancreas in the works, according to Tim Brand of Diabetes Daily, July 25, 2016. This is exciting! Pancreum (http://99designs-56f5b0ac3db52.jimdo.com/) is a small company in the SF area working on a “low-cost drug delivery platform that will...
What do you do when you have insulin that you are no longer using … OR you have fresher insulin with the old stuff left over … OR you have other diabetes supplies that you are not using? Please consider sending it to Insulin for Life USA, a wonderful...
Yup, I wore GREEN! What a unique experience at the Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference, 2016! After I had the good fortune to attend Diabetes Hands Foundation’s MasterLab 2016, I was able to take in the programs at the Friends for Life International...
What an honor! I was chosen to receive a scholarship (underwritten by Lilly Diabetes) to attend the Diabetes Hands Foundation MasterLab 2016, a few weeks ago. I was flown to Orlando, staying at the Marriott World Center … for a packed day of speakers, to learn so...
FDA’s Advisory Committee meeting just voted to recommend approval of the expansion of the Dexcom G5 CGM label. Thank you DPAC (Diabetes Patient Advocacy Coalition)! The results are in and the FDA panel has voted the following for the labeling change of...