It’s been a whirlwind few days here at the 2009 American Diabetes Association annual conference in New Orleans. Consider:
389 oral presentations
100 clinical symposia (more science talks)
104 late-breaking abstracts (papers submitted after the conference program was filled up)
1,538 research posters
465 published abstracts (research synopses)
150+ exhibitors on one enormous exposition floor
In short, it’s been factual overload — beginning with the first thing I learned this weekend: I didn’t even know…
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Today kicks off the American Diabetes Association’s 2009 annual conference, this year in balmy New Orleans. I won’t be responding to emails today, because I’m underway!
It’s actually a nostalgic day for me, because my decision to attend the ADA conference taking place in San Diego four years ago was a milestone — being there amongst the diabetes A-list and seeing all the reams of information, excitement and fanfare around new treatments and products changed my…
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More contest entries worth featuring… these ideas stood out as incredibly creative. So creative, in fact, that the judges struggled with rating them, either due to uncertainty whether they’d be implementable any time in the foreseeable future, or the fact that the target audience may be a small slice of the D-world. Still, as we noted, lots of great ideas from some very visionary people:
Diabetic Data Cloud
- the notion that our digital…
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My recent post about Carb Intake for Type 1 Diabetics was pretty critical of new research and of the ADA’s recommendations. Today, please enjoy a counterpoint view:
A Guest Post by Hope Warshaw, nutrition expert and CDE
As a dietitian and diabetes educator for more years than I like to count, (however, not a person with diabetes), I wanted to provide more context for you to evaluate the research featured in “How Many Carbs…
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AmyT on
April 26, 2009
Last week, diabetes industry analyst David Kliff sent out an update to his subscribers claiming that Abbott Diabetes will soon be dropping the Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. Instead, Kliff says they’ll be entering the insulin pump market with a new product called the Aviator — the pump that they originally intended to pair with the Navigator.
A parent over at ChildrenWithDiabetes has posted the update in full, so you can read the details for…
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