The Food and Drug Administration approved a new way to treat Type 1 diabetes, based on research from the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology. It’s an artificial pancreas system, which automatically monitors and regulates blood sugar levels.
Type 1 diabetes usually develops in childhood. Treatment involves taking blood samples and injecting insulin with a needle or an insulin pump.
But the University of Virginia has developed an automated glucose-control system they say it’s easier, safer and less painful.
Boris Kovatchev: People with diabetes don’t have to do finger-sticks anymore
Boris Kovatchev is Director of the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology
Kovatchev: They don’t have to calculate insulin amounts by themselves and they don’t have to use insulin injections.
The device, called Control IQ, has a sensor, insulin pump and smart control algorithm. The manufacturer expects to begin shipping it at the end of the month.
