Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes

Updated: 01 Apr 2025 • 714 episodes
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The T1D news show you've been waiting for! Long-time broadcaster, blogger and diabetes mom Stacey Simms interviews prominent advocates, authors and speakers. Stacey asks hard questions of healthcare companies and tech developers and brings on "everyday' people living with type 1. Great for parents of T1D kids, adults with type 1 and anyone who loves a person with diabetes.

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During his final exams at Georgia Tech, Jonathan Fitch had a seizure. He was fine, but it was a frightening wake up call – he says – that managing T1D reactively wasn’t enough. An industrial engineering student  he pivoted a creating an all in one app designed to help people stay ahead of diabetes. What does that mean?

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It's In the News.. a look at the top headlines and stories in the diabetes community. This week's top stories: Learning more about the FDA letter sent to Dexcom, news from ATTD including a bihormonal pump from a Dutch company, time in tight range update, more studies about using insulin and GLP-1 medications, eating ch

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Disability rights – particularly those spelled out in 504 plans – are being questioned right now, in a way we haven’t seen since the federal Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990. There’s a lot of uncertainty, but there are some things you can do to protect your children. We’re going to talk about

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Some changes coming to Tandem’s Control IQ software… which will now be called Control IQ Plus. What have they added? I’m talking with Dr. Laurel Messer, senior director of Medical Affairs at Tandem to answer your questions about this software update, type 2 indication, whatever happened to Tandem’s new infusion sets an

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People with type 1 can be found in just about every professional, sport, hobby, you name it. But just because more and more people are living their dream with T1D, that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do that! I’m talking to Morgan Reimler this week – a PGA teaching professional who was playing golf in college when she was d

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It's In the News.. a look at the top headlines and stories in the diabetes community. This week's top stories: Find out more about Moms' Night Out  Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible! Learn more about Gvoke Glucagon Gvoke HypoPen® (glucagon injection): Glucagon Injection For Very Lo

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