Year: 2013
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Medicine/Drugs
Faster Insulin: A Heated Exchange
Faster bolus insulin absorption is the goal of InsuPatch and InsuPad, each of which uses heat applied to the infusion…
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Treatment
Inhalable Insulin — A Breathtaking Development
AFREZZA is a technology-cum-therapy that delivers bolus insulin for mealtime glycemic control. It combines a small inhaler with an aspirin-size…
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Medicine/Drugs
Faster Insulin: Short and Sweet
A 1.5 MM needle about the thickness of a human hair is being tested by BD. There's no need to…
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Treatment
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Artificial Pancreas
Spreading Bets In the AP Sweepstakes: An Interview With JDRF’s Dr. Aaron Kowalski
A conversation with Dr. Aaron Kowalski, Vice President of Treatment Therapies at JDRF, touches on ongoing work in creating an…
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Living
A Tattoo Even Mom Will Love
Tartoosâ„¢ takes injection site management in a new direction by making it possible for people with diabetes, or the parents…
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Cure Insight
Small Wonders On A Cellular Battlefield
“We’re exploring using materials that release, slowly, low amounts of drugs at the implant site for many years. Instead of…
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Cure Insight
A Safe House for Islets
“The BioHub is a localized micro-environment,” said Ricordi. “It is a quantum leap in cell therapy to replace insulin-producing cells…
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Weight-Loss Surgery Sheds Writer’s Pounds, Not Habits
Three months went by. I got smaller, and smaller, and smaller. Almost 70 pounds down. I was shrinking--it felt exactly…
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Creative ways for couch-potato families to get moving
Do you feel like your family is stuck in a couch-potato rut, and you desperately want to get out of…
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Living
A Sense of Who You Are
From cool meter to cool sensor: the creators of Sanofi's iBGStar tackle their next challenge, making wearable sensors into a…
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Cure Insight
Games Cells Play: Protecting Islet Transplants
"It's a lot like shrink wrapping," said Dr. Alice Tomei of the islet cell encapsulation technique she uses. This "conformal…
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Artificial Pancreas
Trend Setter: Dexcom CEO Terry Gregg
Few, if any, people can match Terry Gregg's perspective on both the business and technology of continuous glucose monitoring. IN…
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Living
Worth Reading: Food, Not So Glorious Food
Two Recent Books Help Us Think About How, And Why, We Eat
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Cure Insight
Operating On Diabetes
Bariatric Surgeries Can Cure Type 2 Diabetes. But They're No Free Lunch.
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Profiles/Interviews
Diabetes Saved My Life
Urban Miyares came back from the dead in Vietnam, thanks to an alert Medic. Then the story got interesting.
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Profiles/Interviews
Tony Cervati’s Quest: The Impossible Takes A Little Longer & INTV: Type 1 Rider
Battered but unbowed after his first try at riding the Tour Divide came up short, Cervati hits the trail again.
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Living
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Artificial Pancreas
Building A Bionic Pancreas
When the history of the first successful closed-loop diabetes management system is written, David Damiano's name may be mentioned only…
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Cure Insight
A Cure Out Of Thin Air?
The Diabetes Research Institute's "oxygen sandwich" may help Chris Fraker and his coworkers make islet cell transplantation -- and a…
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