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The Complete Diabetes Cookbook

America’s Test Kitchen is passionate about cooking — discovering and sharing why recipes work and why they don’t — to…

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BCG Vaccine Shows Promising Signals of T1D Efficacy

We spoke with Denise Faustman, MD, Ph.D., Director of Immunobiology Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School. …

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JDRF Open Protocol — Path to Better Future

In 2018, JDRF celebrated the first anniversary of its Open Protocol initiative to support the development of automated insulin delivery…

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MannKind is Fixing Foundations to Build a Big Future

Michael is a pharmacist by training and a turnaround expert with a strong record of healthcare innovation.  He described the…

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T1D Delay/Prevention in at-risk Children

We spoke with Pieter Rottiers, Ph.D., CEO of ActoBio Therapeutics. Genetic testing, combined with existing NIH TrialNet procedures, has shown…

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Sernova Cell Pouch Hopes to Improve Islet Transplant Success

Sernova is a regenerative medicine company located in London, Ontario. The corporation is led by President and CEO Dr. Philip…

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Gestational DKA in Nepal

We exchanged email with Basanta.   “My name is Basanta. I am a 32-year-old woman.  I am in Nepal now.…

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Yes, Screen your Children for Presymptomatic Diabetes!

We spoke with Marian Rewers, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine and Executive Director, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes…

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JDRF bets that Pandion Can Help

We spoke with Anthony Coyle, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO of Pandion Therapeutics which is located in Cambridge Massachusetts.  This interview was…

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Food Effect on Glucose

Modeling Food to Glucose Process Many physiologic processes in the body have been described with a model-based structure. Insulin absorption…

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A Systems Approach to T1D Care

Diabetes care is especially complex for T2D because there are a lot of variables that impact the effect of food,…

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Using CGMs, Insulin Pens, and Pumps

How to interpret CGM for BG control Continuous glucose monitors provide a wealth of information that may be used tactically…

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Bolus Insulin Management in T1D

Bolus insulin is the insulin you take for food What you eat is digested in stages; some is absorbed right…

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Physiology of Managing T1D

Glucose measurement technology has advanced and this has enabled the control strategies that can be used today. Introduction Our body…

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Acronyms and References

Acronyms and References   amylin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylin AndriodAPS https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/EN/ Aspart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_aspart Automated insulin delivery https://diatribe.org/automated-insulin-delivery BG (Blood Glucose) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar_level blood plasma…

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Basal insulin Management in T1D

Overview The current insulin regimen for glucose management is called basal-bolus, named after its two components: Basal—background insulin reflecting second…

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My T1D Journey as a Systems Engineer

Systems Education I was always technically inclined, and majored in physics in college, then did graduate work in Cybernetic Systems.…

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Dexcom is Excited, and Best is yet to Come

How do you see CGM devices evolving? The foundation of our product development is that we want our products to:…

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Vaccine for T1D in Clinical Trials Soon

INTRODUCTION Virus infections have long been considered as a possible cause of type 1 diabetes. One virus group, enteroviruses (EVs),…

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Regrowth of Human Beta Cells for T1D and T2D

Effective Therapeutic Rate A combination of two drugs enhances the production of beta cells such that they proliferate at the…

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