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ScienceDaily: Mechanical Cure For Type 1 Diabetes?
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070707142658.ht...
Submitted by maverick99 17 months, 4 days, 10 hours ago
The “artificial pancreas” can improve control over the wide fluctuations of a patient's glucose levels that, over time, lead to severe complications such as heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, amputations, blindness and premature death. The artificial pancreas, spearheaded by Drs Roman Hovorka, David Dunger and Carlo Acerini of the Department of Paediatrics, combines two pieces of technology – an insulin pump and a continuous glucose sensor, which provides real time data about trends in
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