Research

With two sons on pumps, each on different schedules, Derek Stewart needed help remembering when to do what. An app he inspired helps him meet the challenge.

A 7-year study of close to 700 children finds that children who get their insulin by pump have better blood sugar control than those who get insulin by injection.

With insurance reimbursements for test strips slashed, meter makers may be able to increase their market share by delivering more accurate readings.

The FDA announces Nova Diabetes Care is recalling 62 million glucose test strips. Could this recall have been prevented by better testing standards? Read more.

Meter accuracy is critical to good diabetes care, and, right now, procedures don’t exist for measuring accuracy after the FDA clears a glucometer. This is a dangerous, unacceptable situation, and you can help change it.

Among all the nations where diabetes is a serious health concern, the United States is an outlier when it comes to insulin treatment therapies.  While insulin pens rule the roost among multiple daily injectors in Japan, and in many European…

Follow two insulin pump veterans as they take the new Snap pump for a month-long “test drive.”

“To have something that cushions the needle part and make it not that big a deal, when everything else associated with the diagnosis is so huge and overwhelming…I truly see that as a big win.” Dr. Ann Baxter, inventor of…

Snap is a feature-rich pump long on convenience but short on price. At around $700, it costs about the same as an OmniPod starter kit.

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…

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…

From cool meter to cool sensor: the creators of Sanofi's iBGStar tackle their next challenge, making wearable sensors into a fashion statement.

Few, if any, people can match Terry Gregg's perspective on both the business and technology of continuous glucose monitoring. IN sat down with Gregg for this interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2013.

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

When the history of the first successful closed-loop diabetes management system is written, David Damiano's name may be mentioned only in passing. This will not be surprising, since David, age 13, played no role in writing the algorithms and testing…

An Ontario mom Amy Ermel and her daughter Emma have never met Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham, but they hope following in their footsteps will convince toy giant Mattel, makers of Barbie and Ken, to create a suite of dolls…

A huggable, interactive, diabetes teaching tool for kids

Advice on how to make sure pump therapy is right for you.

There is an old saw that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and Ed Damiano's relationship with Dr. Steven Russell is a perfect example of the saying in action. In 2006, when Damiano came to the Joslin Diabetes…