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Training Endocrinologists with the Fakebetes Challenge

February 22, 2022 | | Posted in Newsletter

HCP handles a case of Fakebeter
“Could your diabetes doctor or nurse pass the Fakebetes Challenge? Here’s what one participant, Heidi [MORE]

Implantable Wireless Glucose Monitor

June 24, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Glysens Diabetic Monitor
With the diabetic population growing almost exponentially, more effective monitoring is a pot of gold at the [MORE]

Bone Quality Test from Finger Nail Clippings

April 29, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Most patients at risk for osteoporosis have an x-ray assessment (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, or DXA) of their bone mineral [MORE]

Computerized Screening for Occult Disease

November 6, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

One of the advantages electronic medical records offer is the computerized screening of a patient’s data for undiagnosed illness.  [MORE]

Stem Cell-Derived Pituitary Gland

February 7, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Pituitary Cells
This is one of those things that is almost inconceivable until it happens: scientists at Japan’s RIKEN Center for [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Now in Trials

January 10, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Medtronic "Enlite"
Last November, Medtronic began clinical trials of its “Enlite” sensor that continuously monitors glucose levels over six days.  [MORE]

Diabetes Prevalence Since 1980

August 16, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, a group of public health [MORE]

Ear-Implanted Microbeads to Monitor Blood Glucose

November 9, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Life Bio Electromechanical Autonomous Nano Systems Center recently reported in [MORE]

Predicting Diabetes

September 21, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Early Detection of Diabetes Risk
Starting from samples in blood biorepositories, where diabetes outcomes were tracked over time and known, [MORE]

Bihormonal Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas

April 27, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

The April 14th issue of Science Translational Medicine has a research article describing how bioengineers at Boston University and [MORE]

Glucometer Phone

January 19, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Glucose Mobile Phone
In a study Partners Healthcare (Boston) sponsored, more than two-thirds of parents with a diabetic child said they [MORE]

Spit Test for Type 2 Diabetes

May 27, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Srinivasa Nagulia, MD,  president and CEO of Diabetomics LLC (Beaverton, OR) has developed a proteomic test, based on 65 markers [MORE]

Glowing Skin

January 28, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Dr. Heather Clark
Using a material of 120-nm polymer beads containing a fluorescent dye and glucose specific sensing molecules, Heather Clark, [MORE]

Sleep, Diabetes and Obesity

January 28, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

A group of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Bariatric Surgery Clinic have reported finding a link between [MORE]