Pop sensation Nick Jonas last week testified before the US Senate Committee on the need for funding for type 1 diabetes research. The hearing was the culmination of JDRF’s Children’s Congress. More than 150 children and teenagers representing all 50 US states took part in JDRF’s Children’s...

On Saturday 17 June 2009, the medical journal Diabetologia published a series of research papers looking at a possible link between one of the insulin analogues, known as glargine or Lantus, and the risk of being diagnosed with cancer. This research is primarily based on data from people with type...

On Sunday 28th June, the Sunday Express published an article about type 1 diabetes and a possible cure for the condition. The piece focuses on an experimental treatment called Prochymal. This is a cell-based therapy that has been developed by a US biotechnology company, Osiris Therapeutics Inc. The...

Like many other JDRF supporters, Justin Webb, the BBC’s North America correspondent’s life was changed forever when his eight year old son Sam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last December. Since then he has taken it upon himself to learn as much as possible about the condition, and the research...

Scientists working on JDRF’s artificial pancreas project based at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Sansum Diabetes Research Institute have demonstrated for the first time that an automated artificial pancreas system (APS) can safely and effectively maintain desired blood glucose...