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!

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...
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