Chris Leach

Chris Leach was the founding editor of numerous diabetes publications, including Insulin Nation, Type 2 Nation, and Health Matters. A lifelong entrepreneur, he also founded New Jersey Monthly and was part of the team that created ESPN, the Magazine. Chris passed away in 2013.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

The Doctor is (Always) In

"Connected Care" Puts Expert Advice In The Palm of Your Hand

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