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Article: Perfecting a 'pancreas': Scientists fine-tune a device to be used by diabetics, monitoring blood glucose, sending needed insulin amount.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2006
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Byline: Jamie Talan
May 15--For decades, people with type-1 diabetes have been hearing about the possibilities of life with an artificial pancreas. Such a device would include a glucose sensor that would send warnings when blood glucose was too low or too high, and then it would alert an insulin pump - just like the real pancreas - to deliver the necessary amount of insulin. That day may have finally arrived. Several studies are under way on a variety of technologies that mimic the pancreas, which produces insulin that regulates blood sugar. When blood glucose is too high or too low, patients can develop life-threatening complications.
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