By
MikeH on
August 27, 2012
Even though Ed Damiano isn’t living with diabetes, he occasionally wears a continuous glucose monitor and two Tandem t:slim pumps, and he constantly has his eye on all the newest D-devices.
Sometimes his pumps are filled with saline and sometimes colored water, with blue liquid representing insulin and red standing in for fast-acting glucagon. The Boston researcher is wearing the devices in the name of his 13-year old son, David, diagnosed with type 1 more…
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Kyle Rose is a former Team Type 1 cyclist and business development director for that group. He is now living in France, where he founded a consultancy called Delta PM Diabetes, focusing on chronic disease management in health care. Mainly, he advises companies in the diabetes management business on campaigns for products including insulin, drug delivery devices, and glucometers, as well as non-profit collaboration initiatives and medical/patient community outreach.
But recently, Kyle got the historical…
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Sixteen-thousand doctors, scientists, and other healthcare providers. Hundreds of Pharma industry folks and food and diabetes supply vendors manning 171 booths in a cavernous exhibit hall. Over 2,500 research reports, plus over 2,000 more studies presented on mini-billboards known as research posters. More than 150 live sessions where experts present nearly 378 reports on every imaginable aspect of diabetes in the human body.
This is the American Diabetes Association annual Scientific Sessions conference, taking place…
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By
AmyT on
April 12, 2012
As many of you may know, my husband/consulting partner and I were approached by Roche Diabetes’ Accu-Chek team a few years back with a challenging project request: how could we help them best “embrace” the burgeoning online diabetes patient community (what is now known lovingly as the DOC)? Our suggestion was hosting an in-person summit, to offer us cyber-advocates a rare chance to meet each other, as well as an unprecedented “peek behind the curtain”…
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By
AmyT on
November 29, 2011
Ten days ago, I got a last-minute invitation to attend a small Bay Area JDRF event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley. This is where technology happens. It turns out, this diabetes-tech-update event has been going on for a few years. I was especially excited, because the theme of this year’s program was FDA Reform: How Can We Remain Competitive While Protecting Public Safety? Now that sounded…
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