When Amanda Smith walked into the kitchen one night in 2015 to warm up a bottle for her four-month-old daughter, she couldn’t make out the numbers on the microwave. They were blurry. They’d never been ...
This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. On one wall of endocrinologist Kevan Herold’s ...
A team at Stanford Medicine has delivered something people with Type 1 diabetes have waited decades to hear: a cure in animals that does not rely on toxic chemotherapy or lifelong immune drugs. In ...
Food is fuel for the body. In most people, islet cells in the pancreas secrete insulin that converts food into usable energy. But in those with Type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks and destroys ...
Researchers at Stanford found a way to cure or prevent Type 1 diabetes in mice using a combined blood stem cell and islet cell transplant. The procedure creates a hybrid immune system that stops ...
Iacocca, former chief executive of Chrysler, is contributing more than $1 million and seeking to raise an additional $11 million to fund what he says is a promising new treatment for diabetes. Iacocca ...
The singer and one-third of the Jonas Brothers was diagnosed with the chronic condition at 13. To express his feelings about ...
If you have type 1 diabetes, you may have wondered if a pancreas transplant could cure your condition. In fact, for a select group of people with advanced complications, a pancreas transplant may be ...
Stylist Dale Volpe with Styled by Dale and InTwo Shopping's Alexandra Bruskoff are teaming up for a Cure, a one-day shopping ...
While you may be familiar with the insulin pumps and blood tests that become part and parcel with a type 1 diabetes diagnosis ...