artificial pancreas

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against the use of unauthorized diabetes devices, including insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), as well as other nonapproved devices and algorithms used to create systems for automated insulin delivery. "These...

The world’s first officially regulated, hybrid closed-loop system is launched today in the UK. The MiniMed 670G is a self-adjusting insulin pump system and the first to automate and personalise the delivery of basal insulin, 24 hours a day. It has been available in the US since 2016. The...

Among first-time users of a new insulin pump that automatically delivers insulin to people with type 1 diabetes, nearly one-fifth stopped using the device, primarily because of difficulties meeting the technical demands system, researchers say. Results of a real-world study of the hybrid closed...

My son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 3, and I knew that I needed to find a better way to control his disease to keep him safe and healthy. In 2016, I found the Open Artificial Pancreas System project (OpenAPS). At that point, I wasn't able to keep him as safe and healthy as I wanted...

The latest Type 2 diabetes news at the ADA – by Emily Burns Last month, along with 16,000 diabetes researchers and healthcare professionals, I got the chance to attend the American Diabetes Association meeting in Orlando. Here’s what was on the agenda for Type 2 research...

Trang Ly, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, the senior vice president and medical director at Insulet Corp., sat with MD Magto talk about the new additions to the Omnipod DASH insulin management system, which were presented in a product theater at the American Diabetes Association's 78th Annual Scientific...

A pilot study among young children with Type 1 diabetes found that a University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas helped study participants better control their condition. The goal of the artificial pancreas is to automatically monitor and regulate blood-sugar levels, eliminating the...

Four major research studies will soon be under way to test and refine the newly developed artificial pancreas system, thanks to nearly $41 million in grant funding, according to a press release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The artificial pancreas, a closed-loop system intended...

The primary objective of this article is to provide an overview of Artificial Pancreas projects by stage in human trials. Our analysis evaluated the companies involved in AP human trials, differentiating device characteristics, most advanced stage of testing, and the number of trials in which...

The bionic pancreas system developed by Boston University (BU) investigators proved better than either conventional or sensor-augmented insulin pump therapy at managing blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 diabetes living at home, with no restrictions, over 11 days. The report of a...

Big news in the world of closed loop research is being announced today. OK, make that "Bigfoot" news... as in Bigfoot Biomedical, the closed loop (aka artificial pancreas system) startup based in Milpitas, CA, led by the D-Dad trio of former JDRF leader Jeffrey Brewer, former Medtronic chief...

The artificial pancreas -- a device which monitors blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes and then automatically adjusts levels of insulin entering the body -- is likely to be available by 2018, conclude authors of a paper inDiabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the...

While University of California Davis researchers are still experimenting with growing human pancreas inchimeras, type 1 diabetics could use, in the meantime, a portable biotic bihormonal pancreas. Using the device with a modified iPhone correctly regulates blood sugar levels. Using the portable...

Medtronic ($MDT) is just a few days away from detailing pivotal data for its hybrid Closed Loop System at the American Diabetes Association conference. That's expected to be followed by a PMA submission in June, with an approval anticipated to follow in the spring. "By the end of this month...

“I feel like a robot now,” six-year-old Chloe Jarratt said after the doctors finished attaching her to the various tubes and wires of the artificial pancreas. Jarratt, along with her mother, Amanda, traveled to the University of Virginia Center of Diabetes Technology last Sunday to take part in...

When a top researcher decided he wanted to take a group of teens with Type 1 diabetes skiing for five days and use the opportunity to run a trial for the Artificial Pancreas (AP), he reached out to the Riding On Insulin (ROI) team of ski and snowboard instructors. According to Mollie Busby, ROI...

A medi tech business that is pioneering new developments in diabetes care technology has revealed its latest groundbreaking advance - an artificial pancreas. CellNovo is partnering with US technology company TypeZero, who will use CellNovo's digitally-connected insulin patch pump alongside its...

Researchers in countries across North America and Europe have received funding for a project studying artificial pancreas technology, in one of the largest ever trials of its kind. This $12.7 million of funding is from the Special Diabetes Programme of the United States National Institutes of...