Year: 2013
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Cure Insight
ADA Scientific Sessions 2013: A Pause Before The “Next Big Thing”
Every year since 1940, the American Diabetes Association has brought doctors, researchers, clinicians, and industry together for an annual event…
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Medicine/Drugs
Type 2 Insulin Therapy: Wherever You Go, V-Go
Among all the nations where diabetes is a serious health concern, the United States is an outlier when it comes…
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Pumps
Road-Testing Asante’s Snap Insulin Pump
Follow two insulin pump veterans as they take the new Snap pump for a month-long “test drive.”
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Medicine/Drugs
Incretins Under Siege? Don’t Jump To Conclusions
Safety concerns and potential side-effects accompany almost every drug used by consumers, and diabetes is no exception. Are Byetta, Victoza,…
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Hypoglycemia
Off To College? Ten Rules To Live By (Parents Too)
It may be summer, but your college-bound offspring will be leaving home soon. Whether you and your child have lived…
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Hypoglycemia
Faster Insulin: Extracellular Action
Want your bolus insulin to arrive faster and leave sooner? Halozyme Therapeutics has good news for you.
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Cure Insight
Four-Legged Islet Factories: The Pigs of Auckland Island
A herd of pigs from a remote island in the south Pacific Ocean hold the promise of a virtually endless…
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Living
Taking A Bite Out Of Carbohydrates
A chewable tablet that reduces the amount of glucose released in your body after meals, with no significant side effects,…
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Living
Manna From Heaven: A Diabetes-Friendly Bread
BreaDr, a low-carb bread with a glycemic load per slice of just 39, has something besides good numbers to recommend…
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Wearables/Products
A Bee Takes The Sting Out Of Shots
“To have something that cushions the needle part and make it not that big a deal, when everything else associated…
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Cure Insight
Putting Killer Cells in Reverse: The Hidden Power of CXCL12
Poznansky has developed a process to keep “killer” cells away from transplanted tissue, specifically islets, by deceiving them into not…
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Cure Insight
A Type 1 Triple Play
What if we could forecast which people would suffer from Type 1 diabetes years before it happened?
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Living
Trash Into Treasure? The Afterlife of Insulin and Test Strips
Why focus on a disease for which there is no cure, when there are no resources available to treat it?…
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Cure Insight
Mending Metabolism
Bariatric surgery early in the course of a patient’s diabetes is far more likely to produce remission, and sustained improvements…
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Medicine/Drugs
Insulin Pills Move Closer To Reality
Our digestive system is marvelously effective at breaking food down into its molecular components. Getting a group of active insulin…
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Cure Insight
The Hygiene Hypothesis: Too Clean for Our Own Good?
The tiny eggs of pig whipworms may be key in slowing down Type 1 diabetes, and preventing it altogether in…
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Pumps
A Snappy Approach to Pump Technology
Snap is a feature-rich pump long on convenience but short on price. At around $700, it costs about the same…
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Cure Insight
Stemming the Tide of Immune Response
Delivering mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) during islet transplantation more than doubled islet function, enhanced islet survival and reversed rejection episodes.…
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Hypoglycemia
Dogs: A Different Kind of CGM
Diabetes alert dogs have amazing powers. But finding the right dog is still more of an art than a science.
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Hypoglycemia
“More Accurate Than The Meter” – And A Best Friend, Too
"Man's Best Friend": takes on new meaning when applied to diabetes alert dogs. Meet Liam Kelly, and his dog Max.
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