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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More than 1,400 physicians gathered in Phoenix, AZ, last week for the 22nd Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). Our correspondent Wil Dubois was embedded with the “troops” covering the week-long convention, and files this report on the highlights that jumped out at him.
(In a separate article coming soon, he’ll also report on AACE’s just-announced new treatment “algorithm,” their official alternative to the American Diabetes Association’s diabetes…
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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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