News broke the other day that Tandem Diabetes had gobbled up 51 patents belonging to Smiths Medical ASD, the folks who made the Deltec Cozmo pump that’s been off the market for almost four years now. Officials from both companies are tight-lipped on what this means, but it seems to imply that future versions of the slick new Tandem t:slim pump might utilize some legacy Cozmo technology…
Meanwhile, we got word in early January that…
Our controversial columnist Wil Dubois is back with another spicy edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine.
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You know the answers you get here will be brutally honest and interesting, to say the least.
Robyn from Colorado, type 1, writes: I have traveled a lot over the years with my insulin in tow. Upon completion of each trip I always come to the…
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I was as surprised as the rest of you to hear earlier this week that Smiths Medical is killing off the Cozmo insulin pump. Although I guess we should’ve seen it coming. Heck, the economy is in bad shape, and companies everywhere are cutting their loses. {So sorry for the layoffs, my friend Scott!}
According to industry insiders, Deltec (Cozmo creator) has been a “dead duck” for some time now, ever since Smiths Medical, which…