‘Diabetes’ Archives
A Cure For Type 1 Diabetes?
Diabetes: cure. INSULIN PRODUCING BETA CELLS PROTECTED IN FOUR YEAR STUDY Let's see what's new. Ah. Here's a study from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation about a cure for diabetes. Now I KNOW I'm dreaming! A new drug, otelixizumab, is in phase III trials. (Phase III trials are the randomized, controlled, multicenter [...]
An Artificial Pancreas For Diabetes: Still In The Works
image from Creative Commons Medicine: Type 1 Diabetes. An artificial pancreas really is just over SOME horizon now. An announcement from Cambridge (article in the Lancet) describes the fine work of Dr Roman Hovorka at the University of Cambridge, working with a group of seventeen diabetic kids. A cure for [...]
Maybe Salt’s OK For You
Cardiology: Seasoning. Well. Here's the thing. About 25% of you are "salt sensitive". Which means, if you eat too much salt, you could be at risk for high blood pressure (like you always heard), as well as heart failure, kidney disease, diabetes, cataracts, strokes.. on and on. As if you didn't have enough to worry about. How can [...]
Diabetes: Lenses To Measure Blood Sugar?
Medicine: Color changing lenses for diabetes. Back to diabetes. The primary way that diabetics check their blood sugar level (other than passing out, of course) is by analyzing a little blood. They say you get good at it. So this new thingee from Jin Zhang at the University of Ontario should be very welcome, [...]
Pancreatic Cancer And Libraries and Whatnot
photo courtesy of Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/timetrax/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 LibaryScience:The Future Of Libaries Books are being digitized. Google's taking the lead. Having already digitized several million books, Google hopes to become a digital "Library of Alexandria", a modest claim since the collection of the ancient [...]
Flight Data Recorders. A Radical Solution
EngineeringDesign: AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447 Frustrating. The Flight Data Recorders of Flight 447 are in the ocean. When the batteries for its “pingers” run down, that it. Gone. I suggested, last time, that the data in those “Black Boxes” could have been broadcast or “streamed” to a receiving station (perhaps via [...]
Update: Diabetes
A quick update. I just heard from Dr. Von Herrath (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) who's research I describe in the last post. As you can imagine, there's a LOT of interest in his timeline and knowing when the human studies start. Dr. Von Herrath says that they're "actively pursuing combination therapies in recent - onset [...]
