Last week I made a last minute decision to fly to Barcelona for the ATTD 2026 conference. This is the 4th time I have joined the conference and it is one of my favourites. Here are some highlights from the event 👇. ⭕ Commercial systems are moving towards fully closed loops (hooray!) with  CamDiab  announcing CamAPS Liberty and  MiniMed  giving an update on its new Vivera algorithm in the pipeline. 👁️ I had retinal screening by  iCare  with no dilation drops and instant resu

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Last week I was in Amsterdam for the ATTD2025 conference and here are 3 big themes I took away about type 1 diabetes treatment and technology. Scroll down to read more here 👇  1. Automated insulin delivery systems are great! I know first hand how great automated insulin delivery systems are and they are rightly being celebrated and rolled out to (mainly privileged) patients around the world. This tech is pushing us to think about new treatment targets like Tight Time in Rang

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