No need to overload your cranberry sauce with sugar this holiday season − a food scientist explains how to cook with fewer added sweeteners

With a few science-backed culinary tricks, you can make a delicious cranberry dish that’s friendly to Type 1 diabetics.

Rosemary Trout, Associate Clinical Professor of Culinary Arts & Food Science, Drexel University • conversation
Nov. 22, 2024 ~8 min

Transplanting insulin-making cells to treat Type 1 diabetes is challenging − but stem cells offer a potential improvement

Type 1 diabetes develops when the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells. Using stem cells to replace them could be a way to get around donor shortages and transplant complications.

Vinny Negi, Research Scientist in Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
Nov. 20, 2024 ~8 min


Drug prices improved under Biden-Harris and Trump − but not for everyone, and not enough

Both Trump and Harris seek to lower drug costs for patients. What headway have they made on realizing this goal?

C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut • conversation
Sept. 26, 2024 ~10 min

Diabetes and obesity can damage the liver to the point of failure – but few people know their risk of developing liver disease

Though a leading cause of liver transplants and an increasing number of young people being diagnosed with the disease, few people have heard of MASLD.

Madona Azar, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School • conversation
July 22, 2024 ~9 min

The disproportionate toll that COVID-19 took on people with diabetes continues today

People with diabetes are about twice as likely to become seriously ill with COVID-19 compared with those who don’t have diabetes.

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst • conversation
June 6, 2024 ~10 min

Drug appears to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice

A new type 1 diabetes drug hides insulin-making beta cells from the immune system and shields them from attack, a study with mice shows.

Vanessa Wasta-Johns Hopkins • futurity
April 30, 2024 ~7 min

How you can reverse insulin resistance

An expert discusses the basics of insulin resistance, how the condition affects your health, and the steps you can take to reverse it.

Yale • futurity
April 23, 2024 ~5 min

Insulin injections could one day be replaced with rock music − new research in mice

Researchers successfully treated diabetes in mice by engineering cells to make insulin in response to the music of Queen.

Bill Sullivan, Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University • conversation
Nov. 14, 2023 ~8 min


Implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps often fail because of immune attacks − stopping them could make medical devices safer and longer-lasting

From breast implants to prosthetic knees, implants can trigger a foreign body response that results in your body rejecting them. Suppressing an immune cell gene could reduce this risk.

Kellen Chen, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona • conversation
Sept. 25, 2023 ~7 min

Ozempic may let type 1 diabetes patients skip insulin

This "could possibly be the most dramatic change in treating type 1 diabetes since the discovery of insulin in 1921."

Ellen Goldbaum-Buffalo • futurity
Sept. 7, 2023 ~5 min

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