The Best Pancreas System for Kids with Type 1 Diabetes
New study shows that the dual-hormone artificial pancreas provides the most benefits by reducing the time spent in nocturnal hypoglycemia with children and adolescents...
Automated OCL Insulin System Improved Glucose Control in Kids
A newly published journal article details the success of an overnight closed-loop (OCL) control system, intended to mimic pancreatic beta-cell function, among children with...
Beta Cell Function Preserved with Alefacept in New-onset Type 1 Diabetics
Study shows that people with new-onset type 1 diabetes who took two courses of alefacept soon after being diagnosed showed preserved beta cell function...
Extra 1000 Daily Steps Helps Kids with Type 1 Diabetes
New research shows improvements in cardiovascular health for type 1 diabetic children who take just 1000 extra steps each day. Keeping count of daily steps...
Scientists Find a Trigger for Type 1 Diabetes
University of Colorado School of Medicine scientists made a big discovery -- identifying a factor that may trigger type 1 diabetes. A team of researchers,...
Potential Source of Insulin-Producing Cells Found in Adult Pancreas
Exciting new finding may lead to a way to replenish the cells destroyed or damaged by diabetes.
New Procedure Could Lead to Type 1 Diabetes Cure
Researchers have discovered a new potential therapy that can protect human pancreatic cells, which may lead to a possible cure for type 1 diabetes. New...
Cytokine Reversed Type 1 Diabetes in New Study
A new study shows promising progress for a new treatment of type 1 diabetes using a protein made by immune cells, which essentially cured...
Teens and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Welcome Peer Mentoring
Majority of those surveyed expressed an interest in a peer mentoring program to improve diabetes control.
Cure for Diabetes Would Lower Deaths by 12-Percent
Diabetes accounts for more US deaths than previously thought but researchers estimate that a cure for diabetes would cut overall deaths by 12-percent. Diabetes accounts...
FDA Alert: Shasta Technologies GenStrip Blood Glucose Test Strips May Report False Results. Discontinue...
GenStrips are advertised for use with the LifeScan OneTouch family of glucose meters. The affected test strips have been manufactured and distributed since March 2013 and are available through online retailers and retail pharmacies.
New Treatment Using Skin Cells Could Replace Insulin Shots
Stem cells from diabetic patients have been coaxed to become insulin-secreting cells which would replace the need for insulin shots. Researchers have produced insulin-secreting cells...
Lab-Grown Mini-Organ Producing Insulin After Transplant
After decades of trying to replace insulin-producing cells, researchers have grown mini-organs that produce, and replenish, insulin after being transplanted. Researchers have spent decades trying...
Research Team Pinpoints Gene Key to Reactivating Insulin-Producing Beta Cells
A BYU research team, which includes several students with type 1 diabetes, have pinpointed a gene that causes beta cells to replicate. Beta cells...
Scientists Discover Compound that Prevents Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers tested a compound that eliminated the incidence of diabetes and minimized insulitis, which is the inflammation associated with, and destroyer of, insulin-producing cells....
Unhealthy Fat Levels in Type 1 Diabetes May Be Treatable
A drug being studied to block cancer growth has been shown to restore healthier levels of fat, or lipids, in people with type 1...
