Diabetes

Artificial pancreas works well in home trial

(HealthDay)—The latest trial of an artificial pancreas system offers good news for people with type 1 diabetes—the system lowered blood sugar levels without increasing the risk of dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), ...

Diabetes

A pediatric diabetes gamechanger

Anyone who lives with Type 1 diabetes is all too familiar with the sheer amount of effort—and often round-the-clock attention—required to manage the disease. Food intake is closely monitored, as is physical activity, ...

Medical research

Mayo Clinic developing artificial pancreas to ease diabetes burden

The 25.8 million Americans who have diabetes may soon be free of finger pricks and daily insulin dosing. Mayo Clinic endocrinologists Yogish Kudva, M.B.B.S., and Ananda Basu, M.B.B.S., M.D., are developing an artificial pancreas ...

Diabetes

Artificial pancreas likely to be available by 2018

The artificial pancreas—a device which monitors blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes and then automatically adjusts levels of insulin entering the body—is likely to be available by 2018, conclude authors of ...

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