Researchers in California report that they have reversed the equivalent of type 1 diabetes in mice through transplants of stem cells. Their experiments have replaced cells in the pancreas damaged by the disease that are unable to make insulin.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the expanded use of the Dexcom G4 Platinum Continuous Glucose Monitoring System for patients with diabetes ages 2 to 17 years. The G4 Platinum System, which monitors blood glucose levels in people with diabetes, had been approved for patients ages 18 and older.
Once again, FDA had the privilege of attending the 2013 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit this past November. This was another great opportunity for us to share current FDA regulatory perspectives with the diabetes community and to update attendees on many of FDA’s ongoing efforts related to diabetes.
The updated recommendations are in response to a previous published article on aspirin therapy released in 2011. The current 2013 guideline recommendations by the ADA suggest aspirin therapy for primary prevention in patients with either type 1 or 2 diabetes who have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Revealing their prototype, which has been in the works for the past 18 months, Google X lab members and project co-founders Brian Otis and Babak Parviz write through their company blog that many of they people they have talked to “say managing their diabetes is like having a part-time job.”
DV-0100 is proprietary, novel and safe. The therapy halts the body’s autoimmune reaction against the pancreatic islet cells which are responsible for producing insulin, allowing them to produce insulin normally and reversing the trajectory of the disease.
Researchers investigated the prevalence and impact of chronic fatigue in T1DM patients and compared those results to a matching control group. The study also aimed to find potential determinants of chronic fatigue. Chronic fatigue is defined as persisting for at least 6 months and leading to impairment of daily function.
Bolus this, basal that… insulin pumping has a language all its own! So just like everything else in the world of diabetes, it never hurts to learn more, whether you’re a longtime PWD (person with diabetes), someone newly diagnosed, or just now starting out on an insulin pump, or just curious about how they work.
The start of a new year is a time when many of us in the Diabetes Community get especially curious about what latest and greatest new tech tools we’ll be able to get our hands on soon. It’s never easy to get straight answers on this.
An immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes won orphan drug status from the FDA this week as it enters phase II trials. Drugmaker DiaVacs says DV-0100 halts the autoimmune reaction against islet cells by modifying a patient’s own dendritic cells and injecting them back into the body.
Chronic wounds are a global problem, the researchers say. In addition to obesity and diabetes worldwide, skin ulcers occur as a consequence of neurological problems, rheumatological illnesses, blood vessel inflammation and infection.
When looking at progression, the FIELD study observed fundus photographs taken over 5 years which showed that taking fenofibrate decreased 2-step progression by 79% in patients with existing DR prior to the study.
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill proposes that different diet components may help preserve beta cell function, once the disease is contracted.
Research has already shown that gastric bypass can ease symptoms of diabetes, but according to a new study, a less-invasive sleeve may also result in benefits for those with type 2 diabetes.
People with diabetes would be injected under the skin with ultra-small insulin-carrying nanoparticles. The porous particles leak insulin that forms a reservoir that is contained by the particles’ electrostatic properties. Until the insulin is needed, that electrostatic force prevents it from entering the bloodstream.
Social Security Disability Benefits and Diabetes Although many individuals who have diabetes are able to control their condition with medical treatment or lifestyle changes, not all people are able to control their diabetes. As a result, they may suffer from severely debilitating side effects. These side effects can include vision loss, kidney disease, nerve damage, […]
Pancreas transplants for patients such as Schofield are not typically an option because they are difficult to perform, said Dr. Michael Rickels, associate professor of medicine at University of Pennsylvania. But an experimental procedure using the pancreas’ islet cells is being tested at medical centers around the country. If it’s approved by the Food and […]
A study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides further demonstration that implanting encapsulated beta cells can be beneficial to individuals with T1D. In the study, researchers implanted functional islet cells from the pancreas of a deceased organ donor into a 63-year-old man who had had T1D for 54 years and […]
Check out this amazing infographic about diabetes and your eye health. Nobody likes to think about diabetes leading to blindness, but of course it can. For example, 32% of people didn’t know they even needed an eye exam, 36% heard about eye risks only upon diagnosis, and 22% never-ever had a doctor talk to them […]
Recently, considerable progress has been made in studies evaluating the possible role of one virus group, called enteroviruses, which have been connected with human type 1 diabetes in a variety of reports. These viruses are common in children, and more than 100 different enterovirus types have been identified in man.