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artificial pancreas

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and an Artificial Pancreas

July 17, 2018

Clinical endocrinology can be defined in one sentence. It is the study of diseases that are characterized by too much or too little of a hormone or by over or under responsiveness to a hormone. That’s it. The rest is detail. Type 1 diabetes is due to the lack of insulin secondary to autoimmune impairment […]

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Progress With An Artifical Pancreas

May 17, 2010

For decades physicians have wondered why the development of an artificial pancreas has been so slow. Such a device should be the perfect treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes. An artificial pancreas would combine the already available insulin pump with a sensing device that would monitor blood sugar thus enabling insulin to be infused […]

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