I am extending the reach of my research for this series of DK posts, as you will see below. The news is coming thick and fast about drugs, diet, implants, legal actions, and much more. As always, let us know how you and others you know are doing.
The waffle cushion is letting my one sore heal slowly, and I continue to work on ramping up exercise, also slowly. I learned the name for my muscle weakness, sarcopenia. Now let’s see whether any of the advice given about it works for me. I start a new drug insurance plan from Humana on Jan. 1. It promises to cut my costs for medications in half, and it will let me go back to the Kroger Pharmacy.
We begin today with another treatment for type I diabetes.
Medical Xpress: Under-the-skin implant could treat type I diabetes
A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and University of Alberta, Edmonton, has created a new technique to treat type 1 diabetes: implanting a device inside a pocket under the skin that can secrete insulin while avoiding the immunosuppression that typically stymies management of the disease.
The group's paper is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.