This week on Diabetes Connections.. Medtronic is making some big moves.. from new sensors, to spinning off the diabetes division. Dr. Jen McVean, medical affairs director at Medtronic’s diabetes business. Dr. McVean lives with type 1 and has a real passion for better access and better outcomes using technology. We talk about their latest real-world…
It’s In the News.. a look at the top headlines and stories in the diabetes community. This week’s top stories: Sanofi lowers prices, oral pill for T1D prevention studied, updates from Medtronic, Tandem, and Sequel Med Tech, falsely lower A1Cs (and why that happens), Biolinq gets FDA okay for micro-needle CGM and more! Find out…
The glucose projector is a simple but powerful idea that can only come from someone who lives with type 1 – and sleeps with it! John DeLeo created a digital readout of CGM data that displays the number, and the time, right on the ceiling. John was diagnosed with type 1 in his 40s. We’ll…
This week on Diabetes Connections.. catching up with Dexcom’s Jake Leach.. our first interview with him since Leach was promoted to CEO. As always, a lot going on – we get the details on a recent recall for Dexcom software, studies presented at EASD, a look at what’s coming up for the rest of this…
Managing diabetes data can feel overwhelming, especially when every device speaks a different language. What if your care team could see it all in one place—and have a diabetes educator checking in between visits? This week, we’re talking about SweetSpot, a platform that hopes to make everything easier for the doctor and the person with…
It’s In the News.. a look at the top headlines and stories in the diabetes community. This week’s top stories: kids’ A1C and tech access correlation, first generic GLP-1 for weight loss approved, Metformin cuts long covid risk, Tandem Diabetes & Eversense updates, and more! Find out more about Moms’ Night Out Please visit our Sponsors &…
Lauren Cox and Gary Forbes both live with type 1 diabetes and both played at the very highest level of the sport: the WNBA and the NBA. Podcaster Rob Howe brought them together as part of the Diabetes Legends Basketball Clinic – an ongoing event for kids and teenagers with type 1 that takes place…
This week on Diabetes Connections.. when T1D is one of many chronic conditions. Stacy Abrams was diagnosed with type 1 at age five, and she’s faced a slew of other issues since then. Chronic fatigue, celiac, a long road to uncovering mold and environmental illness. She shares the highs and lows of that journey, what…
It’s In the News.. a look at the top headlines and stories in the diabetes community. This week’s top stories: CRISPR modified cell transplant for type 1, risk of T1D if parent has a different type of diabetes, Metformin and the brain, oral GLP-1, and more! Find out more about Moms’ Night Out Please visit our Sponsors…
We’ve got an important update on a diabetes drug you may have never heard about. Sotagliflozin is known to have big benefits for people with type 2 but getting it approved for type 1 has been frustrating to say the least. The FDA has twice declined to approve it for people with T1D, but experts…