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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Fifteen-year-old Caroline Jacobs of Shapleigh lobbied in Washington this summer for federal regulators to allow at-home trials of an artificial pancreas that could improve the lives of Jacobs and other type 1 diabetes patients.
Now the freshman at The New School in Kennebunk is hoping to move from teen lobbyist to test patient with the news last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given permission to hold trials outside of hospitals.
Jacobs was a delegate in June to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Children's Congress and testified at a Senate hearing on diabetes research chaired by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who founded the Senate Diabetes Caucus.
http://www.kjonline.com/news/maine-teen-hoping-to-move-from-lobbyist-to-test-patient_2011-12-04.html
Now the freshman at The New School in Kennebunk is hoping to move from teen lobbyist to test patient with the news last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given permission to hold trials outside of hospitals.
Jacobs was a delegate in June to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Children's Congress and testified at a Senate hearing on diabetes research chaired by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who founded the Senate Diabetes Caucus.
http://www.kjonline.com/news/maine-teen-hoping-to-move-from-lobbyist-to-test-patient_2011-12-04.html