Current Research into Cures for Type-1 Diabetes

This blog posting consists of two separate essays on the nature of progress.  It is background for understanding forward progress on a cure ...

Here are a couple of recent updates on Artificial Pancreas testing and development. Remember that not everyone considers an AP a cure, but h...

Note: this posting was edited for clarity on Dec-24 . Warning: this posting deals entirely with the worst side effect of type-1 diabetes: d...

... but what does that mean?  Good News First This was a big (450+ people) study, and phase-III, so late in the processes of commerciali...

This is another "is the glass half full or half empty" kind of result.  This experiment was started in 2007.  People who had typ...

Every now and then, someone will ask me how much I think a cure will cost, or they will complain that a cure that I take seriously will be t...

In the mid-2000s, two different groups started clinical trials which gave honeymoon type-1 diabetics Atorvastatin (Lipitor®).  One of these ...