Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

Children who were recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes need less supplemental insulin to keep their blood sugar in a healthy range if they use the immunotherapy drug teplizumab, a new study reports ...

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have uncovered a possible way to protect key cells in the pancreas that are ...

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This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues ...

BUFFALO, N.Y.— Treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients with semaglutide (trade names Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus) may drastically reduce or even eliminate their need for injected insulin.

A new experimental treatment may be able to cure type 1 diabetes. About 83% of the patients were able to stop using insulin after the treatment. Research into the treatment is ongoing. Experts explain ...

The hunt continues for a simple lab test that might help clinicians expeditiously sort out which type of MI is afflicting patients who present to the emergency department with chest pain, so as to ...

Transplanting insulin-producing cells along with engineered blood-vessel-forming cells has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in a new preclinical study. With further testing, the novel approach ...

Continuous glucose monitors and other connected technologies for diabetes management have traditionally been used overwhelmingly by people with Type 1 diabetes, though major devicemakers like Dexcom ...