diabetes

Monitoring and controlling diabetes with a smart skin patch

Posted in Medicine on 28th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

An electronic skin patch that senses excess glucose in sweat and automatically administers drugs by heating up microneedles that penetrate the skin.

Is A Cure For Diabetes Imminent?

Posted in Science on 8th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller

Diabetes can be treated and people with forms of the disease can adapt their lifestyle. However, there is, as yet, no cure.

Needle-phobic pancreas transplant 'world first'

Posted in Medicine on 28th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

A British woman has become the first person in the world to have a pancreas transplant because of a severe needle phobia, her doctors have said.

Promising progress for new treatment of type 1 diabetes

Posted in Medicine on 4th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease, which for the patients leads to a life-long dependence of daily injections of insulin.

Timing Your Blood Pressure Meds Right Might Prevent Diabetes

Posted in Medicine on 26th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers found that taking blood pressure medications at bedtime rather than waiting until morning may cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than half.