Question on diabetes research.

[handsome]

HI,

I am sorry to bother the staff here again, but i have another few questions:

1)Where can i find up-to-date true research updates on diabetes?

2)From what your staff know, when is the "spray insulin" coming to the market?

3)Are there "Lantus pens" in the U.S.?

4)In your opinion, what is the best, most convenient and fastest glucose meter?

5)Are you aware of any type of research being done to produce insulin from the liver?

This is going to sound crazy, but here is my dream invention:

It will be an insulin pump which constantly checks your blood sugar, if it feels it is going low it will inject glucose before it even has a chance to reach below 80mg, if it feels that the blood is going high it will inject insulin before it reaches 120mg. This machine will calculate exactly how much you ate in your meal, because a tiny blue tooth infrared camera which will be planted in your stomach will transmit info of exactly what went in to your system. This type of glucose which will be in the pump will get into your entire bloodstream within seconds, and you will not feel any symptoms.

This would be an electronic pancreas!

If NASA could invent a spaceship they could definitely invent this little thing!

What do you think?

[JDRF-Team-SS]

Hello handsome,

I am one of the volunteers here and a mother of a child living with type 1.  My son who is 10 was diagnosed at age 3.  Also, my sister was diagnosed at age 24.  (9 yrs.ago)

1)Where can i find up-to-date true research updates on diabetes?

I would go to JDRF's main page and sign up for their newsletter, as well as reading some information pertaining to research.
http://jdrf.org/
This page below is another one you should check out.  (although you have possibly already found it:)

http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=102825
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2)From what your staff know, when is the "spray insulin" coming to the market?

See the link below for what seems to be pretty recent information.
http://products.sanofi-aventis.us/lantus/lantus_opti_pat_info.html
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3)Are there "Lantus pens" in the U.S.?

I am honestly unsure.  After 6-1/2 yrs. of injections, my son went on the pump last August.  We never used insulin pens.  I found some information about lantus cartridges, but not a lot.  Talk to your endocrinologist and pharmacist.

http://products.sanofi-aventis.us/lantus/lantus_opti_pat_info.html
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4)In your opinion, what is the best, most convenient and fastest glucose meter?

We have used Lifescan's One Touch Ultra & Ultra Smart glucometers.  It takes 5 seconds and the company has always been helpful.  You do not need a lot of blood and it is only 5 seconds, but someone else might have another brand that they can post info. on for you.
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5)Are you aware of any type of research being done to produce insulin from the liver?
Here is a link pertaining to your question, however, it might be one you have seen since it appears as though you are very well educated.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=764123

Also, what you described is something that sounds like this below:
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