Category Archives: Research

Abstract OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences of children with type 1 diabetes and their parents taking part in an artificial pancreas (AP) clinical trial during a 7-day summer camp. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A semistructured interview, composed of 14 questions … Continue reading →

Part 1: What is diabetes? Posted on September 2, 2016 by Kristina Swartzendruber , Michigan State University Extension Diabetes is a disease that affects metabolism and is characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood. Basically, it’s a disease … Continue reading →

MIRIAM E. TUCKER The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new insulin delivery system for people with Type 1 diabetes is a big deal. With Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas makes little or no insulin so people have to … Continue reading →

By ARUNDHATI PARMAR Another established device maker is throwing its hat in the ring of artificial pancreas development. Insulet, the maker of the tubeless insulin pump, announced Tuesday that the first patient has completed the feasibility study to test its OmniPod Horizon Automated … Continue reading →

The summer heat can negatively impact your diabetes if you don’t take precautions. With high temperatures during summers, your blood sugar control can become a challenge. Heat can affect your diabetes control in multiple ways. Depending on the type of … Continue reading →

SAN DIEGO — Young adults with type 1 diabetes often struggle with the new and added burden of managing a complicated disease on their own as they head off to college, yet many clinical providers and diabetes educators fail to … Continue reading →

As little as 20 minutes of activity three times a week could go a long way. Getting kids to exercise is hard. Getting kids to exercise a lot is harder. That’s always been a problem, but it’s even more so … Continue reading →

The FDA approved an expanded pediatric indication for the t:slim insulin pump, lowering its indicated age for use in children from those aged at least 12 years to age 6 years, Tandem Diabetes Care announced in a press release. The … Continue reading →

Teenage girls with type 1 diabetes are more likely to have negative perceptions of the condition compared with teenage boys with type 1 diabetes, a study finds. Researchers at Oslo University Hospital, Norway stress that a tailored treatment approach could … Continue reading →

A study examining the genes of more than 120,000 people from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas has offered the clearest picture yet of the genes that drive type 2 diabetes. The study, published on Monday in the journal Nature, … Continue reading →