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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. 

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In late July, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions announced their plans to merge. As background, PBMs process prescriptions for...
The Obesity Society's annual meeting has long been our favorite place to catch up on the basic science research behind this critical problem.
A new all-digital magazine, Insulin Nation , launched this month at http://www.insulinnation.com/ . The free interactive magazine will be available online and through...
Late last year, we found out about a new drug being developed by Reata Pharmaceuticals for the treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a disorder that occurs more...
Kelly breaks down “individualized therapy” and offers five big questions to help patients and providers make it a reality…
With humor and detail, Gary Scheiner, a certified diabetes educator and author of one of our favorite books about diabetes, Think Like a Pancreas, gives us his...
In October, Novo Nordisk announced that it had submitted its two new “next-generation” insulin products for approval in both the US and Europe (and Japan to follow soon...
Larry Soler and Dr. James Gavin discuss Partnership for a Healthier America's efforts to fight childhood obesity.
The diaTribe team traveled to Amsterdam to attend the 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG, i.e., fingersticks) and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM, i.e., wearing a sensor) sometimes seem like rival technologies in the...
Kerri Morrone Sparling advocates for unity in the diabetes community.
At EASD, Cellnovo announced that it had received approval in Europe for its new insulin patch pump. It will be launched soon in the UK, and its submission to the FDA is...
Blood glucose monitoring meets Apple’s iPhone: our own Adam Brown test drives Sanofi/AgaMatrix’s new tiny smartphone glucose monitor, the iBGstar…
Eye diseases leading to blindness are consistently ranked among the greatest fears of people with diabetes, and the most common of these eye diseases is called diabetic...
World Diabetes Day 2007 - Beautiful Landmarks for an Unrecognized Epidemic (B.L.U.E)
While the rest of America was watching the Super Bowl, we were taking in the countryside in Montpellier, France, at first annual European Diabetes Technology and...
Recently, JDRF has ratcheted up the pressure on the FDA to encourage quicker development and approval of an artificial pancreas (AP) for type 1 diabetes. In late...
Kerri Morrone Sparling reflects on the true meaning of ‘need’ in the global diabetes community…
Telcare's cellular-enabled blood glucose meter will automatically upload a user's test results to an online portal. Though people with diabetes are urged to keep...

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