In the quest to develop an artificial pancreas , the development of faster-acting insulin is a crucial component – current rapid-acting insulins do not work nearly as...
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 February, Dexcom submitted an application to expand the label for the G4 Platinum CGM (continuous glucose monitor) to pediatric patients who are as young as two years...
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Highlights from Maryland's back-to-back meetings.
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On November 14, World Diabetes Day was commemorated at 574 blue-lit monuments around the world. The annual event is meant to be a rallying experience for the global...
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In mid-April, the popular press was full of reports on an exciting new paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Society on a stem-cell treatment for type 1...
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To mark the end of this month’s 72nd American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia (see conference pearls in this issue), diaTribe editor in...
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Ever wondered if we have it better or worse than other countries? Dr. Dorothee Deiss reveals the state of diabetes care in Germany.
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At the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in January, Insulet announced that it has been working with an unnamed company to integrate a CGM sensor directly into its OmniPod...
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On September 17, Vivus announced that its obesity medication Qsymia (formerly Qnexa) is now available on the US market – this happened at least several weeks earlier...
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Dr. Sanjay Kaul speaks to diaTribe about the new SGLT-2 drug class.
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Earlier this month, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the co-chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH),...
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Retrofit CEO Jeff Hyman explains what makes data-driven weight loss – using Skype sessions and Wifi scales– so different.
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On World Diabetes Day in San Francisco, Manny Hernandez of the Diabetes Hands Foundation (DHF) announced that the DHF had exceeded its goal to get 20,000 people to take...
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Two well-known endocrinologists debated the merits of inhaled insulin in the February edition of Diabetes Care.
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In June, pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and its partner AstraZeneca (AZ) acquired the important biotech company Amylin for a cool $7 billion, which we...