From Our Diabetes Notebook: Rounding Up the Latest Conferences

We always keep an eye on the diabetes conference circuit of course, and although we can’t possibly cover all the local events ranging from expos and meet-ups to research-specific forums, we do have some notes to share from four of these recent eve…

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