Savvy Updates, 5/6/24: Eversense Authorized for Pump Integration, Walmart Health Shuts Down, Lilly Scales Up GLP-1 Production, Novo Prices Drop on GLP-1s, CVS Earnings Slashed, Neotame Sweetener Damages Gut, FTC Polices FDA’s Orange Book “Improper Listings”
Fully-implantable CGM receives FDA authorization for integration with insulin pumps by Jill Rollet for Healio.com/endocrinology, 30 April 2024. The Eversense E3 CGM (Senseonics Holdings and Ascensia Diabetes Care) received authorization to be marketed as an integrated...
Savvy Updates, 4/15/24: Lilly’s Humalog Shortage & More, T1D Diabetes Moonshot, The Ozempic Jingle
Lilly’s Carelessness in Discontinuing 3 mL vials of Humalog Causes Shortages in 10 mL vials of Humalog + Unbranded Lispro by Scott Strumello for blog.sstrumello.com, 9 April 2024. In mid-March 2024, the JDRF shared news about how Eli Lilly & Company,...
Savvy Updates, 4/8/24: Implantable BioArtificial Pancreas, Biolinq NI CGM, Adult-Onset T1D Data, Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Goes Home, Sea Blackthorn Antioxidant, Best Grains for T1D, T1D Rights in the Workplace, Riva Greenberg Flourishing, Mini Dosing with Glucagon/TCOYD
The next-gen implantable bioartificial pancreas by Bernard Banga for Medical-Technology.nridigital.com, 22 September 2023. A team from MIT, in collaboration with researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, has developed a novel implantable device. The...
Savvy Updates 4/1/24: Pig Kidney Transplanted into Human, Mini Dose with Glucagon, Sleep Apnea & T1D, 15% Medical Claims Denied,AMA Urged by Congress, Why Melted Cheese Tastes GOOD
Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into a Patient, a Medical Milestone by Roni Caryn Rabin for NYTImes.com, 21 March 2024. Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first procedure of its kind. If...
Savvy Updates, 3/25/24: Humalog Shortage, Glucose Levels Affect Cognition, Once-Weekly Basal Insulin, Time in Tight Range, Cow’s Milk Containing Human Insulin, Time-Restricted Eating & CV Risk, Exercise “Pill”, Metformin & Anti-Hunger Molecule, Clean Your Water Bottle, “Ozempic” Babies
Eli Lilly warns of temporary short supply of two insulin products by Meg Tirrell for CNN.com/health, 22 March 2024. Drugmaker Eli Lilly warned that two of its formulations of insulin would be temporarily out of stock through the beginning of April, citing a “brief...
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