Tampa Bay Rays Outfielder an Inspiration to Kids with Diabetes
Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld made the day of one six-year-old boy when he visited Andrew Cordovez.
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Freestyle Navigator CGM
The Freestyle Navigator CGM is a continuous glucose monitor that allows for continuous testing on diabetic patients who have advanced Type 1 diabetes and need to send their doctor their test results quite regularly.
Bayer Didget Meter For Kids
The Bayer Didget Meter For Kids is a nice addition to any child who has diabetes because it can make testing fun. It actually rewards a child for testing regularly through free games on their Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite.
Bayer A1C Now Self-Check System
The Bayer A1C Now Self-Check System is a great monitor that will monitor your A1C level and that’s important because with even as much as 1 percent reduction, many issues and complications that diabetic patients face can be lowered.
New Drug Delivery Mechanism For Retinopathy
A pin-sized device implanted behind the eye to treat diabetic retinopathy has been developed by a team of engineers and scientists from the University of British Columbia that could be told to release drugs to treat the damage.
Can eating 37 strawberries a day lessen diabetes complications?
37 strawberries work better than one, according to a recent study that was undertaken at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory (CNL), with the results to be published in a June 2011 issue of PLoS ONE.
New Discoveries Made in Conquering Kidney Disease in Diabetic Patients
The kidneys, along with the eyes, are at times the main targets of these complications. With the eyes, there is vision loss. With the kidneys, there is kidney failure, which could lead to kidney dialysis.
Oil Refining Helping Researchers With New Tools For Type 1 Diabetes
In order to control blood sugar, engineering researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are merging automation techniques from oil refining in order to create a closed-loop artificial pancreas.
HbA1C Results Prove Inaccurate For Dialysis Patients
HbA1C Results Prove Inaccurate For Dialysis Patients: According to a new study at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a test known as the golden standard long-term glucose monitoring test proved to be less valuable in patients who are on dialysis. The hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) is administrated to patients over a 3-month period to check blood … Continue reading “HbA1C Results Prove Inaccurate For Dialysis Patients”
Pancreatic Islets
Almost 80 years ago, Dr. Frederick Banting published a report about use of pancreatic Islets to treat diabetes. He obtained those Islets from the pancreas of a dog. By first tying-off that pancreas, he eliminated the digestive enzymes that would otherwise have destroyed the insulin in the Islets.
