Month: May 2020
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Treatment
Why Insulin Coupons & CoPay Caps Aren’t Good Enough
Despite several years of activism, debate, and protesting, the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers of insulin — Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and…
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Treatment
Student Invention Aims to Improve Control for Diabetics on MDI
As a person living with type 1 diabetes who requires multiple shots of insulin a day, you probably already know…
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Research
New Study Questions Rotavirus Vaccine Effect on T1D Development
Excitement over a potential preventative treatment for type 1 diabetes reached a high last year as multiple studies showed a…
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Treatment
Provention Bio Starts Rolling FDA Submissions for T1D Preventative
It has been a while since Provention Bio (website), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on immune-mediated diseases, announced their first…
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Living
Ketones Role in False Positives on Breath Alcohol Tests
Alcohol is a complicated subject when it comes to type 1 and type 2 diabetes — especially for those who…
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My Story
Living with Type 1 Diabetes in 1959
Doctors told Debbi’s parents she wouldn’t live to be 14 years old. Her friends and teachers thought type 1 diabetes…
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Research
Free Type 1 Diabetes Screening for Children Saves Lives and Aids Research
As a parent living with type 1 diabetes, it is impossible for me to watch my child vacuum up a…
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Living
Designing a Great Prefilled Insulin Syringe Case
In the past few decades, we have seen huge advancements in the methods available to inject insulin. Today, plenty of…
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Research
Deleting Gene in Mice Prevents T1D from Developing
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made a surprising discovery recently when they deleted the IRE1-alpha gene in mice destined…
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