Why focus on a disease for which there is no cure, when there are no resources available to treat it? For many people in poor countries, Banting and Best’s innovation, and development of life-saving insulin, might as well not exist.
Category: Living
Stemming the Tide of Immune Response
Delivering mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) during islet transplantation more than doubled islet function, enhanced islet survival and reversed rejection episodes. Embedded in the DRI’s recently announced BioHub “mini organ,” MSCs could lead to long-lasting or even permanent cures for people with type 1 diabetes.
Dogs: A Different Kind of CGM
Diabetes alert dogs have amazing powers. But finding the right dog is still more of an art than a science.
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 artificial pancreas, developing more rapidly-absorbed insulins, and making a stable, liquid glucagon for bi-hormonal pumps. This isn’t research for its own sake: these days, a clear “path to market” is a hallmark of JDRF research grants.
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 of children with diabetes, to “tattoo” the abdomen and other injection areas with small, easily-removed, images that are spaced one inch apart.
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 like that. Like I was contracting and leaving my clothes hanging on my body. I was shrinking back inside the acceptable boundary a bo…
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 it? Well, there are easy, creative ways to work physical activities into your family’s life — and get the recommended 10,000 steps daily — while doing things that are so much fun you won’t even notice you’re exercising. We asked exercise physiologists with the American College of Sports Medicine for their tried-and-true ways to get couch potatoes to add more movement to their day, and they offered these creative options. So strap on your pedometer and start counting your steps and improving your fitness. — Go on an active scavenger hunt. — Give dance a chance.
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 fashion statement.
Worth Reading: Food, Not So Glorious Food
Two Recent Books Help Us Think About How, And Why, We Eat
Diabetes Saved My Life
Urban Miyares came back from the dead in Vietnam, thanks to an alert Medic. Then the story got interesting.
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.
The Doctor is (Always) In
“Connected Care” Puts Expert Advice In The Palm of Your Hand
MISS MANNERS MEETS DIABETES
Lessons in etiquette for people who care about people with diabetes
EMOTIONAL EATING — ARE YOU ABUSING FOOD?
It’s Not Just What We Eat, But Why We’re Eating It
Exercise Evangelists
Insulindependence Captains Lead by Example
