Hypoglycemia
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The Dangers of Hypoglycemia in the Hospital
Studies show people with diabetes are more at risk of hypoglycemia during hospital stays. What's behind the trend and how can we lower the risk?
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You and Hypoglycemia: What Others Should Know
When hypoglycemia strikes, it's hard to communicate what you need. Here's what friends, family, and co-workers should know.
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Asymptomatic Hypoglycemia, a Silent Killer
Hypoglycemia is scary enough without the prospect of a silent low. Here’s what you can do about it.
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A User-Friendly Glucagon Kit?
Glucagon kits can prove too cumbersome in a crisis. Now there’s hope of an easy-to-use glucagon pen on the horizon.
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Study Finds Dogs Prevent Hypoglycemic Events
Researchers find that dogs can sniff out low blood sugar in people with diabetes and prevent some cases of severe hypoglycemia.
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A Simpler Approach To Treating Hypos
Glucagon injections can treat severe hypoglycemia events, but is often not used when a hypo strikes. Can a simpler approach to a rescue kit change this?
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Harnessing Hypos: Glucagon As An Everyday Tool
Controlling blood glucose like a normal pancreas does, using insulin and glucagon in tandem, is the aim of a San Diego biopharma company named Xeris. Their stable, long-lasting liquid glucagon may radically change day to day treatment of hypoglycemia.
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Off To College? Ten Rules To Live By (Parents Too)
It may be summer, but your college-bound offspring will be leaving home soon. Whether you and your child have lived with diabetes for years or the diagnosis was recent, you’ve probably created a treatment and check-in routine that gives you…
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Faster Insulin: Extracellular Action
Want your bolus insulin to arrive faster and leave sooner? Halozyme Therapeutics has good news for you.
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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.
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“More Accurate Than The Meter” – And A Best Friend, Too
"Man's Best Friend": takes on new meaning when applied to diabetes alert dogs. Meet Liam Kelly, and his dog Max.
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Building A Bionic Pancreas
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…
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Artificial Pancreas Update: Medtronic Checks In
Medtronic's low glucose suspend, a key part of their closed-loop system-to-be, is coming to the U.S. Soon.
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