Diabetes: Is the Artificial Pancreas a Diabetes Cure?
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been told that my daughter’s condition will soon be cured. It seems every day that a new headline lands in the consciousness of my friends, reassuring them that a cure for diabetes is imminent. Some even intimate that I can get it from her GP right now. She recently transitioned to insulin-pump therapy, and so we no longer have to think about diabetes. So say all her Grandma’s friends. Of course, the reality is in stark contrast to public perception, and she and I both welcome opportunities to change her pump site in …