From:http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Research_270/Bacteria-in-Hospitals.shtml (HealthNewsDigest.com) Bacteria hides in hospitals in some unexpected places. Every day, more than 200 Americans die due to healthcare-associated hospital infections[1]and about 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection[2].Following are six places where bacteria hide in the hospitals and ways to prevent the bacteria from infecting you. Glucose testing stripsBacteria […]
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Tandem outlined thinking on Artificial Pancreas and projects at 2015 filing with FDA for their first step in their recent earrings call: From:http://seekingalpha.com/article/2946926-tandems-tndm-ceo-kim-blickenstaff-on-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript Beginning in 2013 and throughout 2014, weve actively supported leading investigators in advancing this development of artificial pancreas solutions by providing Bluetooth enabled pump, hardware and software. We are committed to continue […]
OmniPods CEO spoke of artificial pancreas in Q&A at the most recent earnings call: From Seeking Alpha:http://seekingalpha.com/article/2957376-insulets-podd-ceo-patrick-sullivan-on-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript Patrick Sullivan President & CEO Yes, I would say our strategy is that as it relates to the artificial pancreas, we are putting together strategy so that OmniPod is a very significant part of the artificial pancreas product […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/26/us-sanofi-sa-diabetes-toujeo-idUSKBN0LU13I20150226 SanofiSAs new Toujeo diabetes drug won U.S. regulatory approval, but with wording on its prescribing label that analysts say could make marketing difficult. Toujeo is a more potent follow-up to the drugmakers top-selling Lantus insulin product, which accounts for a fifth ofSanofisales.Sanofiis hoping to convert patients to Toujeo as Lantus is due to lose […]
Previouslywe shared the release fromT1D Exchange and Locemia about rescue glucagon. Curious where the name came from? This will help. For more see Locemia.com
Medical searches on Google When you do a Google search for certain medical conditions, you can learn about their symptoms and treatments. This includes information from medical doctors about how common a condition is, whether its critical or contagious, the ages it usually affects, and more. Get info about medical conditions When you search for […]
Dexcom commented onArtificial Pancreas in their most recent call. More than we can abstract buy here is a sample: From:http://seekingalpha.com/article/2951636-dexcoms-dxcm-ceo-kevin-sayer-on-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript As we sit here today and as weve sat here for the past several years our message has been CGM first that making CGM systems more and more accurate and reliable and better tools to […]
From:http://seekingalpha.com/article/2951636-dexcoms-dxcm-ceo-kevin-sayer-on-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript Kevin Sayer President, Chief Executive Officer Thank you, Steve. For our business update today I would like to discuss several major initiatives for 2015. Lets start with innovation. On a worldwide basis we launched a total of five new products in 2014, compared to a total of three worldwide product launches in the previous […]
From:http://jdrf.org/2015/02/the-serious-side-of-the-flu-for-people-with-t1d/ The flu can increase the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a serious acute complication of type 1 diabetes (T1D) that results from too little insulin DKA is normally seen in states of prolonged fasting or starvation. The body shifts metabolism from primarily using glucose to using an alternate fuel pathway, ketones, derived from fatty […]
From:http://nedawareness.org/about-nedawareness The goal of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 22 28) #NEDAwareness Week is to put the spotlight on the seriousness of eating disorders and to improve public understanding of their causes, triggers and treatments. By increasing awareness and access to resources, we can encourage early detection and intervention, which can improve the likelihood […]