New organ for the person with diabetes
Health News May 17th, 2010
A team of middle-profit making “artificial pancreas” for the people with type 1 diabetes. The project aims to create a tool that can check blood sugar levels throughout the day and then automatically deliver insulin when needed without any intervention from the patient or other family members. The team consisted of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and a medical equipment manufacturer, Animas.
The Company had previously made Animas insulin pump. Now the company is working with JDRF to create a wireless system monitoring tool that combines continuous glucose, insulin pumps, and sophisticated software.
If successful, it would free the people with type 1 diabetes from having to check the blood sugar constantly and inject insulin. “Greatness, the two tools that can later be ‘communicating’ automatically. Both instruments had been available so far, but working independently, “said Chief Alan Lewis as President of JDRF.
JDRF parties became partners will contribute knowledge and expertise. Foundation’s budgeted 8 million U.S. dollars to the project for three years.
Device control
So far, the main difficulty of building software to manage both the tool so that a single unit automatically.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that makes your body make mistakes destroy cells in the pancreas as the insulin-producing. As a result, the body can not break down and use sugar.
If not resolved, blood vessels and nerves slowly damaged and organ failure that led to the death of an infected.
Type 1 diabetes is mostly in children. The presence of tools that will ease the burden on the sufferers and their families.
So far, every night the parents should check the blood sugar their children so as not to wake up with very low blood sugar. Quality of parent and family life, too distracted.
