David Maahs, MD, professor of pediatrics and division chief of pediatric endocrinology at Stanford Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, sheds light on the current state of diabetes care for children and adolescents.
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Why Precision Medicine Leads to Better Diabetes Care
Diabetes can show up in almost anyone: pregnant women, babies, kids, teens, adults both young and old.
Kids Fare Better With Early Use of Diabetes Technology
Providing continuous glucose monitors to kids with new type 1 diabetes improves their blood sugar levels a year later, a Stanford study showed.
Bluetooth Further Eases Management of Type 1 Diabetes
Technology enables communication between two advanced devices.
National Diabetes Month 2019
November is National Diabetes Month, a time when communities across the country team up to bring attention to diabetes.
The long awaited and newly FDA-approved ‘artificial pancreas’ for type 1 diabetes has arrived
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford led the way in testing the device and are currently in the next phase of studying the technology in younger children.
At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, an Apple HealthKit pilot for type 1 diabetes shows promise
Pediatric diabetes patients and their families have a new and innovative way to communicate glucose measurements.
New research shows how to keep diabetics safer during sleep
Life with type 1 diabetes requires an astonishing number of health-related decisions – about 180 per day. But patients’ vigilant monitoring of their daytime blood sugar, food intake, insulin and activity levels is perhaps less exhausting than the worries they face about getting a safe night’s sleep.
Two Shelbys share soccer, sisters, type 1 diabetes and inspiration
Shelby Scott, age 10, has a lot in common with Stanford senior forward, Shelby Payne. Together, their examples give kids with type 1 diabetes hope for a very bright future.
School Nurses Make the Grade
School nurses can certainly help kids feel better. But can they also help kids do better in school? Packard Children’s studied the effects of putting health care back into schools, and found that—not surprisingly—better health leads to better grades.
Packard Children’s Ranked Among Nation’s Best
In the U.S. News & World Report publication of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals for 2012-13,… Read more »
