We’re getting into busy D-conference season, and May has already brought a number of events keeping us busy, such as the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) conference that Wil Dubois covered earlier this month.
Most recently, getting in on the action were the Big Js in the Diabetes Community, as it were: JDRF with its Diabetes Now & Tomorrow conference and Joslin Diabetes’ Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities.
We were on the ground at…
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Holy Diabetes Innovations! I am happy to announce that a small group of entrepreneurs and researchers including several parents of kids with type 1 here in San Francisco are tackling the diabetes data dilemma head-on, having just launched a new startup called Tidepool.
A few months ago, a gentleman named Howard Look reached out to me, after hearing about the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit, and seeing our video from the 2012 event calling for D-data standardization…
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Happy Saturday, and welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine! hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil is looking at decisions that pump companies make about the glucose meters that will pair with their devices. This can be a tricky one, especially when we get names like Contour and Contour NEXT that sound so much alike but require different strips… Wil has some thoughts here, of…
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It’s taken me a little longer than expected to get around to posting this review of Erin Spineto’s new book “Islands and Insulin“ — but hey, good things take time, right? It’s a different kind of diabetes book from any I’ve encountered so far; it’s a narrative of a huge sailing adventure + the college-age experiences that shaped Erin’s life, with a generous helping of diabetes on the side — rather than the other way…
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AmyT on
April 22, 2013
Two weeks ago today for Spring Break I was in gorgeous, palm-studded Santa Barbara, CA. And what does a diabetes technology geek like me do on vacation? Visit the local research clinic, of course!
Lucky for me, the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute in Santa Barbara (home to the legendary Drs. Lois Jovanovic and Howard Zisser) just happened to be running a clinical trial they were calling “Party Study 2.” I am not making this up.…
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