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Educator support facilitates safe use of do-it-yourself artificial pancreas
Even before FDA approval of the first hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system for type 1 diabetes in November 2016, savvy users wanting better glucose response “hacked” older insulin pumps to create such devices on their own, and an online community offering tips and tricks has only continued to grow. “Looped,” a Facebook group created in November 2016 designed to make basic, do-it-yourself closed-loop technology widely available, currently has 22,800 members, according to Laura M. Nally, MD, FAAP, a pediatric endocrinologist and instructor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric endocrinology at Yale University School of Medicine.
Source: Healio