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
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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 […]
From:http://diabetesstories.com Last year Bennet Dunlap and a group of committed DOC (Diabetes Online Community) advocates created a social movement called StripSafely. It was the raising of voices of those with diabetes to encourage the FDA to put a post market survey in place to ensure our test strips and meters meet safety standards and the […]
From: ADA Press Release The American Diabetes Association today named Kevin L. Hagan, a proven, nationally-recognized leader, as its next chief executive to reinvigorate the national fight to end the diabetes epidemic in America. Hagan will join the Association at a time when theincidenceand costs of diabetes are at an all-time high. Recent estimates indicate […]
From:T1DExchangeLivingBiobank.org Join the T1D Exchange Living Biobank and help accelerate research progress. Its smart! How do scientists learn about type 1 diabetes (T1D)? They study people living with T1D and their blood samples. A new effort is now under way to streamline the type 1 diabetes research process by collecting blood samples needed by the […]
See More: http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/changing-guard-diabetes-hands-foundation Big changes are underway at the Diabetes Hands Foundation, with the recent news that beloved community leader Manny Hernandez is stepping down from the helm of the organization he founded with his wife Andreina seven years ago. Whoa! Longtime D-advocate Melissa Lee will be taking over, at least temporarily, as interim executive […]
From:https://t1dexchange.org/pages/t1d-exchange-presents-data-on-new-form-of-glucagon-rescue-treatment-for-severe-hypoglycemia/ At global ATTD conference, scientists also share new insight on severe hypoglycemia in older adults with type 1 diabetes an emerging challenge as patients live longer PARIS, February 18, 2015 Research fromT1D Exchangescientists presented at theAdvanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD)international conference heralds a new approach to glucagon delivery for rescue treatment for […]