By
MikeH on
October 3, 2012
Those of us in the U.S. sometimes feel as though our Diabetes Community friends across the pond get all the coolest gadgets and medications before we do Stateside.
A preview of highlights at this year’s big diabetes shindig, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), reinforced that feeling but brings a whole lot of excitement, since we are getting a glimpse into the future of what’s to come.
The EASD…
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By
WilD on
September 10, 2012
What would you say if someone offered you a safe pill that could lower your blood sugar, help you lose weight, preserve beta cell function, and keep Alzheimer’s at bay?
Actually, that’s the wrong question. The question isn’t what you would say, but what would you pay?
That’s likely the question that was on the boardroom table at bio-tech firm Metabolic Solutions Development Company (MSDC), when they bet the $55-million farm on their pair of…
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Filmmakers Lisa Hepner and her husband, Guy Mossman, are on a mission to bring the story of diabetes and the quest to find a cure to the silver screen. For Lisa, it’s not just professional — it’s personal. Lisa was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 20 years ago while in college and has worked for the past 15 years producing documentaries for the likes of Discovery Channel, TLC, MTV and PBS. Now she wants to…
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By
AmyT on
August 19, 2010
From the “Weird and Wonderful” File:
Another booth I happened upon last month while visiting the Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando definitely stopped me in my tracks: dental stem cells for diabetes?! Could someone be seriously running a business on this concept when the science is far from mature?
Turns out the Store-A-Tooth™ booth was run by a Provia Laboratories, a Lexington, MA-based outfit offering a new service for preserving the stem cells found…
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By
AmyT on
December 6, 2007
Allie Beatty, formerly of TheDiabetesBlog, has established a new multimedia site “Allies Voice” where she has launched a crusade. The issue at stake is a substance called C-peptide, which in a healthy body, is present in tandem with insulin, but is removed during the manufacturing process of human insulin analogs that we PWDs must inject. Allie and others believe that Big Pharma is doing Type 1 patients a grave disservice by removing this substance, and…
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