The BIONIC PANCREAS: a test drive …
Kelly Close, editor-in-chief of diatribe, writes, in the June issue of diatribe about her experiences on a 5-day trial on the bionic pancreas: I’m now exactly eleven days out of the five-day Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital bionic pancreas1...
We Recommend This Book: Cheating Destiny
Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes by James S. Hirsch In Cheating Destiny, the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive, sometimes surprising portrait of diabetes in America. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1...
Root Cause of Diabetes?
Boston Children’s Hospital Finds Root Cause of Diabetes They say that with just a little more study, they could possibly cure type 1 diabetes. By Melissa Malamut | Hub Health | June 13, 2013 4:31 pm Boston Children’s Hospital could be on the verge of curing type 1...
A Great Read ~ SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes
SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes, by Amy F. Ryan, is an intimate portrait of a young woman’s sudden transition to type 1 diabetes and a life of insulin dependence. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose...
Hunka Hunka of Side Effects
Turning Diabetes Over to the Bionic Pancreas
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8:22:13 AM | Riva Greenberg I considered titling this “Anna Floreen Was Diabetes-Free for 5 Days,” because she was and now she’s not. And I’m curious what that transition has been like — picking up your...Petition to Standardize TSA screenings for diabetics
we petition the obama administration to: Standardize TSA screenings for diabetic persons using wearable self-monitoring medical equipment We petition the White House and Congress to mandate that employees of the Transportation Safety Administration be educated about...How Exercise Prevents and Treats Diabetes
A ground-breaking article from The Netherlands shows that lack of exercise is probably the most common cause of cell damage in diabetics today (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. April, 2013). A high rise in blood sugar after meals, is a major cause of the...First Single Gene Mutation Shown to Result in Type 1 Diabetes
A JDRF-funded study out of Switzerland has shown that a single gene called SIRT1 may be involved in the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) and other autoimmune diseases. The study, “Identification of a SIRT1 Mutation in a Family with Type 1 Diabetes,”...
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