Year: 2015
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Columns
A Students with Diabetes Conference Journal
Amy Ford describes her weekend at the National Students with Diabetes Conference in Tampa.
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Artificial Pancreas
Bigfoot’s Plan To Get An Artificial Pancreas to Market
How the company is quickly ramping up from a DIY project to a major player in the insulin pump market.
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Medicine/Drugs
I Attended an Afrezza Sales Pitch
Sanofi attempts to woo diabetes stakeholders about inhaled insulin at the ADA Scientific Sessions.
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Medicine/Drugs
Outrage and Bafflement Over Insulin Prices
Panelists at the ADA Scientific Sessions lament the commoditization of a life-saving drug.
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En Español
El porque los niños con diabetes tipo 1 necesitan el Páncreas Artificial
Un panel de discusión con expertos en las Sesiones Científicas de la ADA.
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Research
The Diabetes Dads Behind 3 Type 1 Breakthroughs
This Father’s Day, we celebrate dad-innovators who were inspired by their children’s Type 1 diagnosis to find new diabetes treatments.
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Research
Dual Chamber AP Prevents Nighttime Lows Better
Study finds an insulin and glucagon artificial pancreas outperforms an insulin-only artificial pancreas in staving off lows.
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Living
Huckabee’s Strange Diabetes Cure Endorsement
The former governor and current presidential candidate takes heat for endorsing a dietary supplement to “reverse” diabetes.
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Columns
What Diabetes Camp Means for Our Family
One mother of a child with Type 1 shares how the lessons her son learns at camp translate to better…
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Columns
Pilots with Type 1 Restricted on Plane Choices
A pilot with Type 1 argues for a bill that would allow pilots with diabetes to fly more planes.
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Living
The Type 1 Athlete Coloring Book
Matt Silcox creates five portraits of athletes with Type 1 for kids (ages 2-102) to print out and enjoy.
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Living
A Diabetes Crossword Puzzle
Insulin Nation’s de facto puzzle-master creates a crossword for those in the Type 1 diabetes community.
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Living
A Diabetes Crossword Puzzle (Answer Key)
Insulin Nation’s de facto puzzle-master creates a crossword for those in the Type 1 diabetes community.
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Research
Why Kids with Type 1 Need the Artificial Pancreas Now
Ed Damiano, Aaron Kowalski, and others discuss how soon we are to having an artificial pancreas on the market.
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Living
A Diabetes Summer Camp Mystery
A researcher finds an obvious answer to why some of his young test subjects with Type 1 were recording very…
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Columns
Random Observations from the ADA Scientific Sessions
An incomplete and irreverent recap from a sleep-deprived editor.
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Cure Insight
How To Grow Beta Cells in 40 Days
Dr. Douglas Melton describes how his Harvard team required years of research to achieve 2014’s beta cell breakthrough.
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Artificial Pancreas
A 3-Time Artificial Pancreas Test Subject Speaks
Kelly Close describes the promise and the pitfalls of artificial pancreas technology at the ADA Scientific Sessions.
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Pumps
When Technology Isn’t Enough to Prevent Lows
A researcher argues at the ADA Scientific Sessions that patients need more than just pumps and CGMs to control blood…
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Treatment
FDA Approves Medtronic’s MiniMed Connect
The device will help Medtronic pump and CGM users upload and share blood sugar data.
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