The artificial pancreas is no longer the jet pack of diabetes, talked about for decades without ever coming to fruition...
Tag: Artificial Pancreas
An artificial pancreas recently developed at the National Center for Childhood Diabetes at Schneider Children's Hospital in Israel, was tested on seven patients between the ages of 19 and 30. The device consists of a pump that releases insulin and a sensor, which is connected to a small computer which calculates the required amount of insulin to be delivered...
The Islet Sheet looks like a clear business card and feels wet and slick on the finger. You can see the islets, which look to the naked eye like fine white sand...
The new artificial pancreas system developed at Boston University was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of type 1 diabetic patients in the first clinical trial conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital....
The Diabetes Resource website came to be out of sheer frustration. When I was first diagnosed almost 10 years ago I was having a really hard time finding what I wanted on the internet...
Medtronic, Inc. announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the MiniMed Paradigm® REAL-Time Revel™ System, an integrated diabetes management system which combines insulin pump therapy, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and diabetes therapy management software...
According to a JDRF press release, a consortium of academic and industrial partners has announced a collaboration called AP@home that aims to develop an artificial pancreas which would allow automated glucose control for people with insulin treated diabetes.
In the first phase of the AP@home project, currently available AP algorithms will be tested with CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) systems and insulin pumps...
This morning I was feeling inspired by the interview I did with JDRF’s Aaron Kowalski about the Artificial Pancreas Project, so I did…
We’re talking about a semi-closed loop system that would automatically dose insulin some of the time. It would be the first system ever to do so...
Today’s a big day for anyone with Type 1 diabetes: JDRF just announced a partnership with the Animas Corporation to develop what they’re…