Do or Don’t with Artificial Pancreas

Ok, well, we’ve heard these stories before. It may be successful in the long run and may not. It’s the game of a toss-up. Obviously this man has had Diabetes for at least 30 years and unable to do anything for 7 years because of complications, sounds to me probably because he hadn’t been taking control, but I’m not going to make assumptions, just saying. Therefore, he was on the list and on his last leg resorting to trying anything such as having a “fake” pancreas put in him.

Artificial Pancreas is Implanted in Diabetic: Medicine: Experiment is first in U.S. If successful, procedure may eliminate the need for insulin shots.

by Thomas H. Maugh II, Times science writer

Physicians at St. Vincent Medical Center announced Thursday that they have begun the first U.S. human trials of an artificial pancreas that they hope will someday free diabetics from the need for insulin injections.

The artificial pancreas was implanted last week in the abdomen of 38-year-old Steven Craig of Lake Isabella, who has been diabetic for more than 30 years and has been unable to work for seven years because of complications of the disease. It is the first of 20 such implants the hospital is planning during the next two years.

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