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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: breakthroughs finding a cure type 1
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By now I am sure most of you have heard about the “breakthrough” discovery made regarding a possible cure for type 1.
When I saw the report on NBC nightly news I was floored. I sat in my chair staring in front of the TV. My son said, “that is cool huh dad?”
I just looked at him and said, “I guess it is.”
His weird look was probably a mirror of the weird look I felt I had on my face. How was I supposed to feel about this?
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Categories: Type 1 Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: promise of a cure research breakthroughs
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I received the normal JDRF research newsletter the other day. As usual, I perused the updates on diabetes. There was a large article on the new stem cell legislation movement, but I quickly passed over it. But two articles did catch my eye.
One was regarding "Insulin Fragment" Therapy, which I hadn't heard about before this newsletter. A study from the UK showed that "proinsulin peptide" therapy could seemingly restore the immune system without any adverse side effects (like the immunotherapy treatments for pancreas and cell transplants). More research had to be done, but it was still an important milestone.
The other article had to do with protein regeneration for adult beta cells. It was a snippet of an article regarding the prospect of regeneration and replication of beta cells for type 1s. All it did was leave hope. Hope for regrowth. Hope for a life without diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Children In the News Real Life
Tags: research breakthroughs
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"So, Charlie, did you hear? Scientists are working on a possible cure for diabetes that could come from testicles?"
"Huh? The what?"
"You don’t know what your testicles are?"
"Uh uh."
"You know. It’s your, uh …
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps In the News Real Life
Tags: amputations artificial pancreas eyesight research breakthroughs
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Much buzz has been going around the diabetes community about the recent announcement of the JDRF/Animas partnership to develop a "first generation artificial pancreas", and rightly so. The ability to eat like a "normal person", to not have to worry about debilitating highs and lows, to be able to sleep without fear of not waking up again... these are things which are, quoth Hamlet, "devoutly to be wish'd". That the road between here and there is not so simple a passage as we might hope, is well-known, and much littered with papers sporting words like "cure", "encapsulation", "transplant", "gene therapy", and -- of course -- "artificial pancreas". (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: artificial pancreas blood glucose management blood glucose testing CGMS data analysis data management glucometers Logging
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Yesterday, I discussed how I'd like diabetes healthcare providers and the healthcare industry to better use existing tests and technologies, and how I believe our current crop of devices and programs might be developed in the near-term future. Today I'm going to discuss items that will take a bit longer to develop and get through FDA approval, or which may take technological and medical breakthroughs to bring to fruition.
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