Month: July 2007

Bionic pancreas

BBC NEWS | Health | Artificial pancreas for diabetics
The main stumbling block in the development of an artificial pancreas has been mathematical: no-one has perfected a computer programme sophisticated enough to work out the right dose of insulin at any moment of the day.

Interesting research being done in the UK using CGM and insulin pumps to create a kind of artificial pancreas.

"For an artificial pancreas you need a brain. The human body has a very clever way of working out exactly how much insulin the body needs, and we are only just beginning to understand that." -- Dr Roman Hovorka, from the University of Cambridge

Outside looking in

Convergence is again a hot topic. In the past, it described how voice and data traffic would eventually coexist on IP networks. Now it frequently refers to the trend of integrating information security functions into traditional corporate risk management organizations. There are good reasons for doing this, but the risks may ultimately outweigh the rewards.

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Under control

I am feeling pretty good about myself. I have made a concerted effort to keep my BG under control and I am having success. I have been using the excellent tools at SugarStats.com to track my BG and insulin dosage. You can see the graph below.blood glucose graph

Not bad. My goal is to get the average to about 100. My insulin dosage has gone up though. I was average about 12 units a day of Novolog and now I am just over 18 per day. Using both of these graphs I get to see a direct correlation between insulin dosage and blood glucose.
insulin dosage graph