The Beginning of the Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Type 1 Diabetes Program
diaTribe dialogue April 29, 2014 Interview with David Panzirer and Dana Ball, Part 1: The Beginning of the Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Type 1 Diabetes Program by Adam Brown, Hannah Deming, Nancy Liu, and Kelly Close short summary: We had a wide-ranging interview with...T1 Diabetes is Complicated…Even for Doctors
Published on April 7th, 2014 | by Claresa Levetan MD, FACE In 1923, Dr. Elliott Joslin said, “Insulin is a remedy primarily for the wise and not for the foolish, be they patients or doctors. Everyone knows it requires brains to live long with diabetes, but to use...
ViaCyte’s Upcoming T1D Clinical Trials!
March 21, 2014 by Michael Anderson The VC-01 combination product is expected to be implanted under the skin of the patient through a simple outpatient surgical procedure. The cells are then expected to further differentiate to produce mature pancreatic cells that will...Is it Time to Rename Type 1 Diabetes?
Published on February 19th, 2014 | by Claresa Levetan MD, FACE In 1997, the World Health Organization, the American Diabetes Association and other groups universally adopted new nomenclature for diabetes. Diabetes was no longer to be named by whether or not patients...How to make insulin-producing cells from gut cells
Posted on March 10, 2014 by Stone Hearth News, PHILADELPHIA Destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas is at the heart of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. “We are looking for ways to make new beta cells for these patients to one day replace daily insulin...
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