It is summer, the time of year when our diabetes is most visible, at least for those of us who wear insulin pumps.
This Tuesday, for the first time I can remember since starting on the OmniPod system, I wore a bikini. My usual modus operandi has been to place the pod on my belly all summer long, so I can keep it out of sight underneath a pretty Tankini top. But quite frankly, my…
Slowly but surely, a fully integrated “closed loop” or “artificial pancreas” system doesn’t seem so pie-in-the-sky anymore.
By that I mean: the real diabetes device news coming out of this week’s annual ADA Conference was not any product launch in particular, but what I view as a “clear and present” push towards a more automated diabetes management system.
For starters, see the new pre-conference special edition of Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, all about “accelerating the…
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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Meet Griffin Bonner. He’s 13 years old, and in the 7th grade at a private Quaker school in Baltimore, Maryland. He also has Type 1 diabetes. And some very big ideas about how to improve on the products he uses every day to treat his illness.
His clever Safe Tube design was the winner of the Kids’ Category in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge:
Here’s what Griffin had to say about the creative…
Today, meet the Grand Prize winners of the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, two graduate students who came up with the $10,000 idea for improving life with this illness. CONGRATULATIONS!
They are:
Eric Schickli, a 23-year-old grad student in Northwestern University’s Engineering Design and Innovation masters program (essentially a combined design and engineering program), and an aspiring product design engineer.
and
Samanatha Katz, a 26-year-old grad student majoring in Healthcare Enterprise Management, Marketing, and Design through a…
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