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AmyT on
November 20, 2008
So my “mole” who attended the Diabetes Technology Society meeting in Maryland last week got back to me, and the news was kind of disappointing. On the whole, it doesn’t sound like there’s anything particularly new under the sun for us PWDs at the moment; it’s all about more baby steps in research and development.
But Aaron Kowalski, Research Director of the JDRF, might disagree with me there. He delivered a keynote address entitled “Accelerating…
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AmyT on
November 10, 2008
On Wednesday of this week, the eighth annual Diabetes Technology Meeting convenes in Bethesda, MD, for a three-day event (spanning this year’s World Diabetes Day on Thursday) that will survey the latest technological advances for people with diabetes. How I’d love to be a fly on the wall at that conference!
Nevermind that I’ve been trying to gain press access to this meeting for at least the last 3 years; I have a mole this…
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AmyT on
November 7, 2008
I read other PWD’s blogs, and they always seem like they have it so together. But then again, when fellow diabetics meet me in person, they seem to think I have it all figured out, too. Closer to the truth is probably that we’re all just taking it day by day. And man, do I stray sometimes:
Sometimes I don’t test for HOURS after I eat. I just lose track of time. Or I can’t…
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AmyT on
November 3, 2008
Imagine: Smart Insulin that could sense high glucose levels and automatically dispense insulin on demand. “As your glucose levels drop off, the drug stabilizes, trapping insulin until the next glucose spike.” WOW! So it knows if you’ve been bad or good and just jumps right in there to correct your BG like a healthy pancreas?!
You are kidding me, right? Weeeelll, not according to Todd Zion, founder and CEO of SmartCells, a privately held company…
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AmyT on
October 28, 2008
In between the D-blogger meetup and all the other great sessions at the Diabetes Research Institute’s annual conference on Saturday, I popped into David Weingard’s session on Diabetes and Exercise.
David and his wife run Fit4D, a New-York based “personalized diabetes coaching” service that recently announced a partnership with Bayer. “Fit4D coaches provide you with continuous support in helping you achieve your health, fitness, weight loss, diabetes management and quality of life goals.” This all…
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