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Coming Soon: Robo-Pancreas
Thanks to the folks at Engaget we have learned that researchers have developed an artificial pancreas complete with a remote device that monitors your blood sugar, morning, noon and night. This device...
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Jennifer Chevinsky, B.S. A recent study found a strong association between the number of test strips covered by insurance and better medical care in type 1 diabetics. Test strips are impregnated with...
View ArticleThe Future of Disease – in One Picture
Here are some projections on what illnesses Medicare enrollees are experiencing now, and what they will be experiencing 20 years from now, courtesy of the Brookings Institute: The post The Future of...
View ArticleHere’s Why Insulin Is So Expensive, And How To Reduce Its Price
She drew the life-saving medication into the syringe, just 10cc of colorless fluid for the everyday low price of, gulp, several hundred dollars. Was that a new chemotherapy, specially designed for her...
View ArticleDid You Know That Obamacare Causes Diabetes? Here’s Why It Happens And Why...
Obamacare is a big, messy law with so many moving parts, it is often hard to tell how well it’s working. People debate whether it is killing jobs or creating them; they argue about whether it is...
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Transplanting Autoimmune Research
What's the difference between testing a typical small molecule drug, and testing a novel cell therapy strategy? And where might the latter raise ethical challenges that the former doesn't? These...
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