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June 26, 2008
On June 20th, Aetna issued a formal policy providing coverage for continuous glucose monitors in certain circumstances, making it the second national plan to do so, following Wellpoint in April. For more see the Aetna and the Wellpoint/Anthem policies.
June 16, 2008
The Houston Chronicle
Researchers are edging closer to a high-tech system that would automatically regulate diabetics' blood sugar and rid them of their daily burden of pricking their fingers and injecting insulin. Click here to read the article...
May 19, 2008
JDRF is co-hosting a public artificial pancreas workshop to be held July 21-22, 2008, on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Click here to find out more...
May 1, 2008
JDRF research director Aaron Kowalski and head of new technology Cynthia Rice speak with Amy Tenderich about the exciting potential of her annual medical device design contest. Read the blog...
April 30, 2008
A competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.
Two of the most enticing design concepts will win a package of prizes to help further their creative efforts: $1,000 in cash, some pro-bono professional advice from world-renowned design experts, and free access to the next Health 2.0 conference for one adult winner. Read the full blog entry...
March 13, 2008
JDRF said today that the Food and Drug Administration's approval of another continuous glucose monitor is an important step toward revolutionizing diabetes care and management. Read the press release...
January 14, 2008
JDRF has posted the webcast of the JDRF and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) session "Joint Scientific Forum to Explore New Frontiers in Diabetes Management and Emerging Technologies", which was held on April 13, 2007 at AACE annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. To watch the webcast click here.
January 7, 2008
Shares JDRF's progress from 2007 and plans for 2008. Read the article...
November 30, 2007
Yale researchers have successfully tested an artificial pancreas made by Medtronic in a small group of teens with type 1 disease. Read more...
November 5, 2007
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they are issuing billing codes for continuous glucose monitoring technology. The billing codes will be used by public and private health plans to facilitate claims processing and payment for CGM technology. The codes issued by CMS for this technology are: A9276 for the sensor, A9277 for the transmitter, and A9278 for the receiver. The codes are available for use beginning on January 1, 2008. JDRF strongly advocated for billing codes for continuous glucose monitoring technology and wrote letters in support of issuing the billing codes in 2006 and 2007.
October 29, 2007
JDRF has posted the webcast of the JDRF and the Endocrine Society session, "Using Continuous Glucose Monitors to Improve Diabetes Care: A Review of the Latest Research and Clinical Practice Strategies", which was held on June 1, 2007, at the Endocrine Society annual meeting in Toronto. The session discusses the use of continuous glucose monitors in both adult and pediatric patients, including case studies of their use in clinical practice and a briefing on the state of artificial pancreas research. Listen to the webcast...
October 19, 2007
Fox TV's Gwen Tolbart interviews JDRF's Dr. Aaron Kowalski on artificial pancreas technology, and Toni Bethea, a former Children's Congress delegate living with type 1 diabetes. Watch the interview...
September 24, 2007
Diabetes is fast becoming a health care tsunami that threatens to sweep the world. The World Health Organization counted 171 million diabetics worldwide in 2006. By 2030, that number will double. Read more...
 September 18, 2007
Diabetes care is undergoing a transformation: Thousands of patients are switching from a few finger-pricks a day to track their disease to new under-the-skin sensors that keep guard around the clock. Read more...
 September 6, 2007
JDRF's Aaron Kowalski, PhD discusses insurance coverage for CGMs in the September issue of Diabetes Forecast. Read more...
August 31, 2007
JDRF's Aaron Kowalski, PhD, and Joslin's Lori M.B. Laffel, MD, MPH, have co-written an article just published in the American Academy of Pediatrics endocrinology newsletter. In it they describe the current state of the art, a large study of CGMs being funded by JDRF, challenges in applying these new tools in practice, and the future of closed-loop automated insulin delivery. Read more...
August 17, 2007
 Amy Tenderich, an adult with type 1 diabetes who writes the blog DiabetesMine.com, has sparked a new innovation in diabetes devices and attracted significant media attention. In a recent post, Tenderich issued a challenge to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, asking him to come up with a new design for CGM technology that would allow people with diabetes to trade in their bulky blood glucose monitors and insulin pumps for sleeker, more efficient models. A San Francisco Bay area company heard of the challenge and stepped up to the plate, designing the Charmr, a prototype for a blood glucose monitor that resembles the iPod nano, and a new pump that can be worn discreetly under a skin-colored patch.
While the devices don't yet exist, technological advances may soon make them possible and the JDRF Artificial Pancreas Project is aggressively aiming to accelerate this process and reduce the time until exciting possibilities such as this are a reality. Read Tenderich's blog discussing the new design...
August 8, 2007
The current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association features information about the JDRF Continuous Glucose Sensor Clinical Trial. Read more...
August 8, 2007
A NEWSWEEK writer with type 1 diabetes goes to a unique triathlon camp. Blood sugar, sweat, and tears. Read more...
July 27, 2007
 Athletes with type 1 diabetes are increasingly participating in endurance sports, such as marathons and cycling, as a result of advances in management and treatment. JDRF's Chief Medical Officer Paul Strumph is quoted in the piece. Read more...
July 18, 2007
A new report by HSBC Global Research says "In our view, the most important milestone towards getting broad reimbursement for CGM is the completion of enrollment of a randomized, 450-patient CGM trial by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation." Read more...
July 17, 2007
JDRF today applauded the United States Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee for approving a fiscal year 2008 appropriations bill that would increase the budget of the Food and Drug Administration. Read more...
July 6, 2007
Scientists in Cambridge say they are moving a step closer to developing an artificial pancreas for people with diabetes. Read more...
June 7, 2007
While major studies and news coverage have chronicled the rise in the more common Type 2 and controversy over drugs such as Avandia to treat it, Type 1 diabetes quietly has been climbing in the population at the same rate, but unnoticed to many because of its lesser numbers. Read more...
June 1, 2007
Medical device maker DexCom Inc. said Thursday the Food and Drug Administration gave it approval to market an updated version of a device that helps diabetics measure their glucose levels. Read more...
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