'Artificial pancreas' promises to transform treatment of diabetes

[Northerner]

An "artificial pancreas" that could one day vastly improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes has been successfully tested in a home environment for the first time.

The device monitors blood glucose levels and uses an infrared data link to relay information to an insulin pump attached to the patient's body, which adjusts insulin levels accordingly.

It had previously been tested in hospitals, but five people in the UK with Type 1 diabetes have now successfully used it at home, in a world first for such an invention.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-transform-treatment-of-diabetes-8651455.html

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Great news!

Still quite a long way off a full closed loop, but the promise of smarter and smarter pumps that can help to tweak things overnight and between user-input boluses etc seems to be getting closer and closer.