Todd Hobbs, the chief medical officer for North America at Novo Nordisk, knows diabetes from all angles: as a patient; a…
Articles by Katie Bacon
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…
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…