An artificial pancreas system could help safely manage type 1 diabetes in children (Image: aldenchadwick via Flickr)
An artificial pancreas system could help safely manage type 1 diabetes in children (Image: aldenchadwick via Flickr)
What if...
the ‘health care’ deathcare idea is cover to kill off ‘certain’ populations, at the same time as extraordinary life extension technologies ‘appear out of nowhere’ that will enable living much, much longer..........
Waitaminute: how is this significantly different than the Minimed (now Medtronic Minimed) continuous insulin pump that’s been available for decades now?
As one whose connection to the sciences is through an engineering education, I’ve read about the idea of artificial pancreases for years, but nobody seems to be actually making them. A gadget that you could shoot full of insulin once a week and then would watch blood sugar for you and release insulin in accordance, would be regarded as the next best thing to getting a new pancreas. Isn’t a major problem with this that the insulin will not “keep” in a reservoir at body temperatures? So that it has to remain an externally attached appliance?
Will this eliminate all the pricks in Washington, DC? Like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Lindsay Graham, Arlen Sphincter, et al.?
>> It could work for anyone who is an insulin dependent diabetic, but a malfunction could be fatal.
Not if they add a small pouch of glucose on to the pump. All I can say is GIMME!!!
My 10yr old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 when she was six. We have been using a pump for 3 yrs and a CGMS for two. From our experience, and that of all the families my wife has talked to, at this time CGMSs are not accurate or reliable enough to replace finger pokes.
However, there will come a day when technology will overcome. Assuming Obama will leave us alone of course.