I watched a controversial video documentary on The New York Times’s web site, Midnight Three & Six, about a family pumme…
Articles by Katie Bacon
The Road to a Type 1 Diabetes Cure: Encapsulation
When Doug Melton’s Harvard lab made the announcement last October that they had succeeded in turning human stem cells in…
Diabetes Alert Dogs: What You Should Know
Cynthia Hatch, a mother in Brookfield, Wisconsin, is convinced that her family’s diabetes alert dog Sunny, a golden retr…
On the Road to a Type 1 Diabetes Cure: Melton Lab Creates Functioning Beta Cells
Using human embryonic stem cells as a base, the lab has pioneered a process that can reproduce human, insulin-producing …
How Our Daughter’s Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis Changed her Life—And Ours
Even though Bisi can live a long, healthy life, I feel terribly sad for her, and for us. Sad that she will need tens (hu…
The Future of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technology
In a recent diaTribe interview with David Panzirer and Dana Ball, two of the main figures behind the Helmsley Charitable…
The Three Year Diabetes Honeymoon – Part 2
When I called his doctors and told them he hadn’t been taking insulin for a couple of weeks, they said, give him a half …
The Three Year Diabetes Honeymoon
My husband found a case study about a boy diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Denmark who had gone on a gluten-free diet a…
Diabetes Cure Research: Turning Duct Cells into Beta Cells
Bonner-Weir and other scientists have argued that either the beta cells in the pancreas continue to make copies of thems…
How Long Can a Diabetes Honeymoon Last?
When our six-year-old daughter, Bisi, was hospitalized last summer after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, part of t…