Grand Prize Winner Pancreum: A Small, Modular Artificial Pancreas

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 th…

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Ask D’Mine: Do You Need a Living Will?, Safety When Tanning Wil's all over the map today with our latest edition of Ask D'Mine, the "curiously strong" diabetes advice column. That is of course our host, veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. {Need help navigating life with diab......
Celebrating Dad Bloggers – Happy Father’s Day! Let's be real: when it comes to taking care of kids with diabetes, it can seem like a mom's world. We know that dads love their kids just as much, but sometimes it can seem like moms are the only ones going to doctor's appointments, picking up pre......
Patient Voices Winner Jeff Mather on Fitness, Photos and D-Tech Hacking We're happy to be back today with the next in our series of chats with our 2014 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship winners, who'll be representing the patient community at our 2014 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit at Stanford University in Nove......
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