At 37, I’m Fighting to Save my Eyesight
At the age of 37, I’m fighting to save my eyesight, a complication of type 1. People are also at risk of developing kidney, heart, and nerve diseases.
Keeping Your Kidneys Healthier, For Longer
Normally, the kidneys filter waste and extra water out of your blood to make urine. When your kidneys are damaged, they can’t filter blood like they should.
Breakthrough T1D Launches Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan
Breakthrough T1D today launched a Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan, to expand the University’s already stellar Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute to tackle some of the most critical challenges in diabetes research. The goal: To yield safer day-to-day management and improved health for people with T1D by developing a comprehensive understanding of T1D metabolism.
Zucara Faces “Valley of Death,” and Comes Out Triumphant
Low blood sugar, called hypoglycemia, is a real fear for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Although there are rescue treatments for it, there are no preventive therapies. Zucara Therapeutics, however, may have an answer. It is developing a once-daily therapy that restores glucagon. Adding glucagon raises blood-sugar levels, preventing hypoglycemia and the symptoms that […]
Strengthening Type 1 Diabetes Science by Building Careers
Sometimes, the funding that Breakthrough T1D can provide for researchers is exactly the invitation they need to get into the field of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Other times, sustained grants are the critical boost that someone with more experience needs in order to branch out and establish his or her own lab. Creating and […]
Saving Vision, Changing Lives
Several decades ago, type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients brought their seeing-eye dogs into the offices where Jennifer Sun, M.D., MPH., now works. The complications of T1D had severely compromised or cost the patients their eyesight. Today, work led by Dr. Sun is changing all that. We share Dr. Sun’s work as part of our Meet […]
A Scientist Sees Kidney Disease Through New Eyes
Monika Niewczas is keenly focused on kidneys. Specifically, making sure that they don’t stop working when someone develops type 1 diabetes (T1D). Niewczas, an M.D., Ph.D. and M.P.H., works as an assistant investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. For the past 15 years, she has worked […]
Can Prozac Prevent Severe Low Blood Sugar?
Low blood sugar, called hypoglycemia, occurs in over 90 percent of people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). It can usually be detected early on, with symptoms such as sweating, fatigue, hunger and/or irritability. In that case, people can eat or drink a fast-acting carbohydrate—like juice or glucose tablets—to bring the blood sugar back to healthy […]
