Prognosis

How To Build Your Own Artificial Pancreas

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26:24 | Nov 5th, 2018

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More than a million Americans suffer from Type 1 diabetes. The disease occurs when the pancreas mysteriously stops producing insulin, the hormone that converts food into energy. Modern medicine has be...Show More



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danny recommended:Feb 23rd, 2019

People are DIY'ing their own insulin pumps. Scary when you first hear about it but they seems to be doing it b/c its not available to purchase atm.

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mmFeb 24th, 2019

Interesting. Sounds a bit like the DIY medicine in China. Good and sad NYTimes short documentary here about a man making DIY cancer medicine for his mother: https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000005336868/capitalism-china-health-care-system.html

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