Jerry the Bear: A Design Challenge Success Story

Ever wonder what happened to the winning entries in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge? In many cases, the entrants went on to get good jobs in the diabetes industry or related fields. But what about their actual design concepts coming to fruitio…

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Give Your Kidneys Some Love March is National Kidney Month (yes, they have a month for that organ! and even a World Kidney Day on March 11). I realize the month is nearly over this year, but it's never too late to show your kidneys some love - especially if you have diabete......
NEWSFLASH: Diabetes Advocates Launch New Facebook Game for Healthier Living Talk about your really cool mashups of Web 2.0 technology being employed in clever ways to help improve people's health! The non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation has teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center and pharma sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim to......
Diabetes in the UK: Free Care, But Behind the Times? Diabetes is certainly not created equal, and it's even more varied when you take into account the various ways countries manage their health care system. Over the past few months, in our new international series, we've peeked into the lives of PWD......
A Preview of "The Wearable Artificial Pancreas Company" 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-pa......
An Artificial Pancreas Clinical Trial – On Candid Camera! In January, I met with Dr. Ed Damiano, one of the co-investigators at Boston University studying the artificial pancreas trials in humans. At the end of our conversation, he invited me to come up to Boston to check out one of the experiments. The ......