By
MikeH on
January 11, 2013
By January 2015, we could be offered a choice of wearing a dual-chambered infusion pump that distributes both insulin and another medication like fast-acting glucagon or a meal-time infusion of Symlin.
Could be… that’s the tentative timeline for a new device being developed as part of a partnership between the JDRF and Tandem Diabetes, maker of the Apple-esque t:slim insulin pump that debuted in 2012. On Tuesday, the two entities announced they’ve teamed up to…
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The Pancreum closed loop (automated insulin + CGM + glucagon) system that won a Grand Prize in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge this year may look like a pipe dream, but designer Gil DePaula assures us it is “visionary but real.”
Have a look at the video, below, and also Gil’s company website.
“The glucagon part is definitely a futuristic concept — because there’s no predicate device for glucagon delivery with the FDA, so that’s a…
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By
AmyT on
February 28, 2011
Recently I stumbled upon a firm based in Fort Lauderdale, FL, that calls itself Pancreum, “The Wearable Artificial Pancreas Company.” Wow. Really? There is such a thing already? I just had to investigate.
The company’s website describes a four-part system including a controller (PDA), a CGM sensor called the “GlucoWedge,” a small wireless insulin pump called the “BetaWedge,” a small wireless glucagon pump called the “AlphaWedge,” and a set of “iPancreum” software apps that manage…
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