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...
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.
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What if a closed-loop system used three hormones, instead of one? Gary Scheiner discusses the possibility.
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A thorough review and “how-to” on the drug Symlin (Amylin’s pramlintide).
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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...
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Kelly laments the FDA's latest disappointing decision and extends a personal invitation to celebrate World Diabetes Day with the diaTribe team .
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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...
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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...
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Obesity expert Dr. Lee Kaplan of Massachusetts General Hospital tells us how we may be able to bypass the bypass…
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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...
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Three famous doctors on blood glucose monitoring, Byetta/Victoza, and insulin pumps.
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Kelly shares her thoughts on recent reimbursement and regulatory news for diabetes devices.
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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...
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What can Type 1 University really teach you? See what type 1 maven Adam Brown has to say about Gary Scheiner's new brainchild.
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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.
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Earlier this month, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announced a partnership with sanofi-aventis to jointly fund, research, and develop new therapeutics...
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Teaching a child with type 1 diabetes the "facts of life"... Jim Hirsch reflects.
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Dr. Roman Hovorka’s exciting work on the artificial pancreas.
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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...
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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...