Severe Low Blood Sugar: There’s a New Treatment Option
The FDA approved Zegalogue® (dasiglucagon) injection, for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia in children and adults with diabetes aged 6…
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,…
Vertex Has a New Horizon: Curing Type 1 Diabetes
Vertex Pharmaceuticals will launch a clinical trial of VX-880, a stem cell-derived beta cell therapy in type 1 diabetes (T1D).
What We Can Be Proud Of in 2020
It’s been a tough year, to say the least. But there’s news that we can be proud of in type…
Breakthrough T1D Video: “We’ve Been Too Focused on [Insulin]”
“We’ve been too focused on [insulin],” Jeremy Pettus, M.D., an endocrinologist at UC San Diego, says. Watch the video to…
How Type 1 Diabetes was Established as an Autoimmune Disease
In 1974, two teams showed that diabetes is associated with antibodies against beta cells, which helped establish T1D as an…
Researchers Unite at the 56th EASD Annual Meeting
Leading researchers gathered, virtually, for the EASD Annual Meeting, and featured more than 40 studies presented by Breakthrough T1D researchers.
Nobody Knew…Until the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial
The common belief for decades was that diligent monitoring of blood sugars and intensive insulin therapy had little consequence for…
The Power of the Patient Voice: Breakthrough T1D Video
In the words of Colin Dayan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical diabetes and metabolism at Cardiff University: “Type 1 diabetes…
Tandem Control-IQ Improves T1D Management in Children Ages 6 and Up
A clinical trial at four pediatric diabetes centers in the United States has found that a new artificial pancreas system—which…
