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Type 1 Diabetes News

Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic condition in which your body loses the ability to produce insulin, which is necessary for most cells to convert food into energy and regulate blood sugar levels. 

We were very excited to hear recently that DexCom has filed an application with FDA for an integrated glucose management system, combining Insulet’s tubeless disposable...
What if a closed-loop system used three hormones, instead of one? Gary Scheiner discusses the possibility.
A thorough review and “how-to” on the drug Symlin (Amylin’s pramlintide).
Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD) is continuing to offer its stellar conference series in 2010. These events – led by renowned endocrinologist, type 1 diabetes...
Kelly laments the FDA's latest disappointing decision and extends a personal invitation to celebrate World Diabetes Day with the diaTribe team .
Every year on November 14, we pay homage to everyone living with or caring for someone with diabetes on World Diabetes Day . First celebrated in 2007 following a UN...
In late 2010, Merck announced that it had acquired SmartCells, a small Massachusetts-based company that is developing a smart insulin product aptly named SmartInsulin...
Obesity expert Dr. Lee Kaplan of Massachusetts General Hospital tells us how we may be able to bypass the bypass…
Two major trends in healthcare are the shift toward wireless devices and the use of incentives to promote healthy living. SymCare’s inTouch-diabetes program integrates...
Three famous doctors on blood glucose monitoring, Byetta/Victoza, and insulin pumps.
Kelly shares her thoughts on recent reimbursement and regulatory news for diabetes devices.
Artist’s illustration of an anti-CD3 antibody binding to a T-cell. The antibody is x-shaped and shown in green; the CD3- receptor is in purple and green. In a major...
What can Type 1 University really teach you? See what type 1 maven Adam Brown has to say about Gary Scheiner's new brainchild.
Kerri Morrone Sparling reviews the 2nd annual Roche Social Media Summit – and the real change put into action as a result of the first Summit.
Earlier this month, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announced a partnership with sanofi-aventis to jointly fund, research, and develop new therapeutics...
Teaching a child with type 1 diabetes the "facts of life"... Jim Hirsch reflects.
Dr. Roman Hovorka’s exciting work on the artificial pancreas.
A company that has long been in “stealth mode,” Cellnovo recently emerged with a new discreet insulin pump. Dubbed the Cellnovo 150/Cellnovo 50 (the Cellnovo 150 holds...
(S)he said what?!?
This year for World Diabetes Day, the Diabetes Hands Foundation (DHF), is holding a fantastic event called the BiG Blue Test. On Sunday, November 14th, at 2:00 pm (local...

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