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"‘Artificial Pancreas’ Expected To Make Life Easier, Healthier For Type 1 Diabetes Patients"

  • WCBS
  • New York, NY
  • (September 29, 2016)

A groundbreaking new device could change the lives of millions of people living with diabetes. Federal regulators just approved an artificial pancreas that can monitor and administer insulin. The key is a computer algorithm that does those calculations faster and more accurately than a patient can. “It looks at the numbers from a moment to moment basis, and it will proactively predict what is going to happen next and make clinical decisions that cannot be done at that rate. You would have to be standing and staring at your glucose monitor day and night,” said Carol Levy, MD, an associate professor of endocrinology, diabetes and bone disease at the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai. Learn more.