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Oh look!!! There is a "news" article (I use that term loosely) on the Daily Mail website about 24 British diabetic patents getting to trial this amazing device which is essentially an artificial pancreas. This device they trialled for one month might sound very familiar to a lot of us type 1 diabetics..... :confused:
But according to their front page "When the blood sugar level drops, it administers a dose of insulin" - WOW! How handy would that be to cut cost for the NHS by killing off us diabetics?!
Not only that but, "There are also hopes that the device could eventually help tackle the diabetes epidemic linked to obesity." Cool!

The daily mail are pretty useless anyway. But gawd, the reporter could have at least tried. This article is all kinds of wrong!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...al-lives-stopping-need-constant-insulin.html#
 
Although some of the reporting is not correct and be misleading, the artificial pancreas is no longer a 'pipe dream' and its good to see diabetics trialling it at long last.

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iHs said:
Although some of the reporting is not correct and be misleading, the artificial pancreas is no longer a 'pipe dream' and its good to see diabetics trialling it at long last.

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But what they are reporting on in that article is what a lot of us are ALREADY using. It's a CGM and insulin pump they are talking about. Been in use for years in this country. Hardly ground breaking news at this stage?!
 
The pump has the programming to make it intelligent using pre determinrd algorithm for each person so that when the cgm tells the pump what the bg is, the pump is able to deliver the insulin without any manual intervention.

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iHs said:
The pump has the programming to make it intelligent using pre determinrd algorithm for each person so that when the cgm tells the pump what the bg is, the pump is able to deliver the insulin without any manual intervention.

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I didn't see that in this article, lol.
 
I might be wrong of course, but CGM will become more widespread and affordable. Spanners in the works, will challenge the market leaders as competition increases. I would think that within the next 5 years or a bit longer, the artificial pancreas will start to become used at home by diabetics totally dependant on insulin.

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