ATTD 2015 Report: "The Premier Conference for Diabetes Technology"

The 2015 Advanced Treatments & Technologies for Diabetes (ATTD) conference took place in Paris last week, and while we weren’t able to cross the pond ourselves, we had some keen eyes and ears trained on the action. I’m happy to report that Re…

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