In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic:
World unites at global summit to end diabetes stigma
Dad Sam Glassenberg built an app to help others manage diabetes
HOLIDAY EATING!!! Hoppy Easter Carbs Counts & Passover Carb Counts
Express Scripts hit with racketeering FTC class action lawsuit
World unites in India at landmark global summit to end diabetes stigma by idf.org, 27 March 2026.
On 28-29 March, advocates, experts, and people from across the world will come together in Jaipur, India for the inaugural Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma. Presented by the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD), in collaboration with numerous partners and sponsors, this landmark gathering aims to build on a global movement to bring an end to diabetes stigma and discrimination.
The Summit will serve as a powerful platform for sharing experiences, innovative and impactful solutions. It will unite voices from lived experience, advocacy, research, clinical practice and industry across diverse backgrounds, cultures, and communities.
Professor Jane Speight, the Foundation Director of the ACBRD, a partnership between Diabetes Victoria and Deakin University, and Co-Lead of the Summit explains the need for this world-first event. “Four in five people living with diabetes report experiences of stigma. Stigma leads to social isolation, discrimination, and barriers to accessing quality medical care, which can negatively affect both physical and mental wellbeing,” she said. “We are escalating action to end diabetes stigma on a global scale. This is essential for improving both the health and quality of life of millions of people living with diabetes around the world.”
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After his daughter’s diagnosis, this dad built an app to help others manage diabetes by Wayne Drash for CNN.com/health, 23 March 2026.
When Sam Glassenberg’s 5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, the veteran video game developer found himself facing a terrifying new reality: Becoming his child’s stand-in “pancreas,” making life-or-death insulin decisions with only “confusing” instructions to guide him.
So, he did what game designers do best. He built a video game — called “Level One: A Diabetes Game” — a free mobile app that has had about 50,000 downloads since its launch last April. The game has the look and feel of the popular “Candy Crush Saga” 
app, but it turns the complex science of diabetes management into an intuitive, interactive game that teaches people how insulin, food, and blood sugar interact with the body.
The goal is to help children and their caregivers feel less overwhelmed after diagnosis. The game has 60 levels to help people better understand diabetes concepts and introduces new ones as the player advances through the levels.
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HOLIDAY EATING!!!!!!!!!!!! Shared by ChildrenWithDiabetes.com.
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Express Scripts targeted by racketeering class action by Ella Fincken for GlobalLegalInsights.com, 18 February 2026.
Express Scripts has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing the company of running a kickback scheme that diverted billions of dollars in drug rebates from customers, just weeks after it entered a settlement agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve claims it artificially inflated the price of insulin.
At the crux of the class action is allegations of an “elaborate, fraudulent 
scheme” carried out by Express Scripts since April 2019, through which the PBM collected “exorbitant” kickbacks and bribes from drug companies in return for formulary access and favourable formulary placements, whereby high-price drugs were favoured over lower-cost drugs promised to its customers. In doing so, Express Scripts turned its back on its promise to “drive down prescription drug costs” for its customers through negotiations with drug companies and drug formulary management, the lawsuit alleges.
The claim was filed 17 February 2026 with the US District Court for the Northern District of Northern Illinois by US litigation boutique Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann (BLB&G) on behalf of the Plumbers’ Welfare Fund, which provides health care benefits for members of Chicago-based union Plumbers Local 130.
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