Savvy Updates, 5/10/21: BD “NewCo”, Lilly Smart Insulin Pens, Apple Watch Glucose Tracking, TTP339 Gets Breakthrough Status, Insulin Pill, Walmart Health, Doctor Humor
BD to spin off $1B diabetes care business into standalone public company as reported by Andrea Park for FierceBiotech.com, 6 May 2021. After nearly a century spent building out its portfolio of insulin pens and syringes, BD is finally ready to let its diabetes...
Savvy Updates, 4/26/21: DIY Loop Study, iGlobe Advanced CGM, BioPrinted Pancreas, Medtronic 7-day Infusion Set, Diabetes Waste Disposal
A Real-World Prospective Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of the Loop Open Source Automated Insulin Delivery System was published on Liebertpub.com, 12 April 2021. This is a very exciting and important study, validating the effectiveness and safety of those...
Savvy New Tech, 4/21/21: Diatech Diabetes with SmartFusion
Have you ever had pump/pod infusion failures without alerts until you figure it out with rapidly rising BGs????? Do you think there should be a better early warning system? Did you know that the amount of insulin delivered by a pump is a captured dataset? Why...
Savvy Updates, 4/19/21: T1D pill gets FDA breakthrough designation, Home HbA1c kits, Bioactive Glass Toothpaste
FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation for novel type 1 diabetes pill was reported by Regina Schaffer for Healio.com/endocrinology, 14 April 2021. The FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation for TTP399 as an adjunctive therapy to insulin for the...
Savvy T1D Research and AI, 4/14/21: Digital Diabetes Analytics, Insulin 100 (A Scientific Symposium)
The Loop and Learn T1D Speakers series hosted the 3 founders of Digital Diabetes Analytics, all the way from Sweden. It was a very interesting presentation, about their work to develop algorithms for machine learning, based on CGM data, for their current...
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