Glucose-responsive insulin is one of the technologies on the horizon that Kowalski says he’s most excited about. The oth…
Articles by Katie Bacon
The Road to a Diabetes Cure: Encapsulation Research Update
“This approach has the potential to provide diabetics with a new pancreas that is protected from the immune system, whic…
Don’t Call My Kid A Diabetic
“In alignment with the ADA’s position that diabetes does not define people, the word ‘diabetic’ will no longer be used w…
The Stages of Type 1 Diabetes (It Starts Earlier Than We Thought)
Researchers have gained an understanding of these presymptomatic stages of type 1 diabetes through the TrialNet data, an…
Should JDRF and ADA Fund More Diabetes Cure Research?
Philip J. Shaw of the JDCA argues that their analysis of JDRF funding shows that not only has the amount of money being …
The Link Between Gut Bacteria and Type 1 Diabetes, part 2
This is an important study because really it’s the first to show a defined effect between the development of the microbi…
Gut Reaction: The Link Between Gut Bacteria and Type 1 Diabetes
The study could have important implications for identifying the disease at a very early stage, delaying its onset or eve…
The Novo Nordisk Pipeline: An Interview with CMO Todd Hobbs
Todd Hobbs, the chief medical officer for North America at Novo Nordisk, knows diabetes from all angles: as a patient; a…
Report from ADA: How Far Diabetes Care Has Come, And How Far We Still Have to Go
Both type 1 and type 2 are on the rise: since 1985 the number of people with diabetes worldwide has increased ten-fold, …
Ignoring the Worst Case Diabetes Scenario
I watched a controversial video documentary on The New York Times’s web site, Midnight Three & Six, about a family pumme…
