For at least three consecutive years now at the annual ADA Conference, we keep hearing about a rumored switchover from the A1c as the gold standard average glucose measurement. Instead, we’ll get something new and supposedly easier to understand: a new measure that more closely reflects the mg/dL (and international mmol/l) numbers we all get on our home glucose meters. This new test is now dubbed the eAG (estimated average glucose).
One of the big…
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As usual, the annual ADA Scientific Sessions Conference was exhilarating and exhausting. You have to be in awe of such a confluence of the pharmaceutical and technological advancements that enable us PWDs to live happy and productive lives.
But outside of the science and medicine, there’s something else big going on. We stand at the dawn of a new era of patient empowerment that applies “consumerism” to health and medical care in ways never seen…
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I’m writing this way too late Sunday night and I’m a little exhausted and bleary-eyed after two 12-hour days of “running the conference.” Sorry, no, I’m not in charge of anything. Just running around the enormous expo show floor and from one briefing to another and connecting with industry people I know and don’t know and marveling at all the technology and drug signage and fanfare and goodies and earnest-looking physicians and pharma gals in…
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With the big ADA conference underway this weekend, we’re being bombarded with headlines about diabetes clinical trials — first and foremost all the news about the conflicting results of the ADVANCE and ACCORD studies. If you read the details, you’ll find a lot of stuff about randomized, controlled, double-blind, yada, yada, yada studies. Whoa, that’s a lot of jargon to digest. And what does it all mean?
Since clinical trials are so vital to advancements…
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It’s almost annual ADA Conference showtime, Folks, and news announcements are in the air. Here are some initial bits you might like to know about:
* Eli Lilly has announced the winners of its Inspired by Diabetes Contest, notably Theresa Garnero — a San Francisco-based nurse and CDE who’s used her drawing talent to make light of diabetes in cartoon form. Congrats, Theresa!
* Who says nothing is new in the glucose meter market? Actually…
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