Savvy News 4/15/19: Doctors’ Salaries (!), Iron and T1, Wearable Hypo Device
Here’s a potpourri of different topics … just interesting stuff! Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2019 was reported by Leslie Kane for Medscape.com, 10 April 2019. This year’s report represents almost 20,000 physicians in more than 30...
Savvy T1 Topics: “Med-Speak”, The Ideal Physician, The Price of Living with T1D, Wishes, How to Eat Better
This blog is all about how we “live” with diabetes and how we “cope” with the medical community and how we can affect how we “feel” by what we eat. What did my doctor just say? “Medicalese” translations is a fun discussion...
Savvy Living 4/12/19: Tidy Up, Insulin for Life USA, Life of a Child, Insulin-Pumpers
Time for spring cleaning … and that applies to our diabetes supplies too. Let’s KonMari Our Diabetes Lives! was published by Rachel Kerstetter for DiabetesMine, 27 March 2019 … and it gives some great suggestions! With all the recent talk of...
Savvy Updates, 4/8/19: New T1 Origin Story, Smart Glucagon, Oxygen for Islet Transplants
Drug Clears Unhealthy Insulin-Producing Cells, Preventing Early Diabetes in Mice was reported by Nicholas Weiler on UCSF News, 21 February 2019. A UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 (T1) diabetes....
Savvy Living, 4/3/19: Stress, Microbes and Gut Biome, Weight Loss, Canadian Food Pyramid
Let’s take a look at what’s new in the realm of living well with T1D. Four physical signs of stress you shouldn’t ignore was reported by Lindsay Tigar on FastCompany.com, 29 March 2019. Often, your body will show signs of mental stress even if you...
Savvy Fun: Make your Personalized Xbox Diabetes Avatar!
Maybe I’m just a geek … but I thought this was great fun! Still trying to figure out how to save the image with movement. According to a cool article on DiabetesMine, 21 March 2019, Get Your Own Xbox Diabetes Avatar! describes...
Savvy Updates, 4/1/19: Beta Cell Destruction, Patch Pumps (EoPancreas & CellNovo), Integrated Medical Sensors, Insulin Dosing and AI, Hospital-based AP
Researchers May Have Uncovered Stages of Beta Cell Destruction in Type 1 Diabetes, as reported by Trisha Gura of GLU/T1D Exchange, 26 February 2019. Researchers once believed that the onset of type 1 diabetes led to the complete destruction of insulin-producing...
Diabetes Beta Cell Plush Toy! Free to the Best Comment!
Amazing product, complete with an insulin molecule inside!!! I LOVE this!!! This is the PERFECT gift for YOU and ALL of your friends with diabetes … children and adults … and even your endocrinologist!!! Made by GIANTmicrobes, this is a...
Savvy Reviews: Cody and His Type 1 Diabetes AND Thrive Glucose Revival
It’s my total honor to bring you 2 great diabetes finds!!! Cody and His Type 1 Diabetes is the most charming little story about Cody (a shih-tzu maltese mixed doggie) who gets diabetes. It’s short, filled with adorable photographs …...
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