Further Development of Artificial Pancreas: Blocked by Patents?
Erdin, Nils, Robin, Franck, Heinemann, Lutz, Brandt, Derek, Hovorka, Roman
Patent activity in the field of medical device technology and especially in the area of artificial pancreas development has surged in recent years. According to the search presented in this article,...
Are All Clinical Studies Sponsored by Industry Not Valid?
Industry-sponsored studies have such a bad reputation that some journals require an additional statistical analysis by an independent statistician. This commentary discusses some of the reasons why...
Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology and the Diabetes Technology Community
Klonoff, David C., Friedl, Colonel Karl E., Grodsky, Gerold M., Heinemann, Lutz
Kolb, Hubert, Schneider, Berthold, Heinemann, Lutz, Lodwig, Volker, Scherbaum, Werner A., Martin, Stephan
Nielsen, Jannik Kruse, Gravholt, Claus Højbjerg, Djurhuus, Christian Born, Brandt, Derek, Becker, Joern, Heinemann, Lutz, ...
Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring Systems: Will We Ever Have Such Sensors for Practical Use?
It is still the dream of patients with diabetes and diabetologists to be able to monitor glucose changes in the human body over prolonged periods of time without hurting the patients, i.e. without...
Kapitza, Christoph, Fein, Seymour, Heinemann, Lutz, Schleusener, Debra, Levesque, Steven, Strange, Poul
As clinicians, we believe that patients with diabetes have the same views on continuous glucose monitoring that we have. For them, however, the focus is not optimization of metabolic control, but...
Insulin Analogues: A Critical View on Their Future
Insulin analogues represent a class of insulin formulations with improved pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. The introduction of rapid-acting and long-acting insulin analogues into the...
The Failure of Exubera: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
Inhalation of insulin appears to have become an alternative for the subcutaneous injection of insulin for the time being. However, the recent withdrawal of one product that had already reached the...
Heinemann, Lutz, Hompesch, Marcus
Physicians working in biopharmaceutical companies are key components in the successful development of new diagnostic and therapeutic developments. They have a high level of responsibility for the...
Measuring Glucose Concentrations: Daily Practice, Current and Future Developments
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) by means of modern glucose meters is of relevance for all patients with diabetes. It not only provides important information about the effect of therapeutic...
Hompesch, Marcus, McManus, Laura, Pohl, Roderike, Simms, Patrick, Pfützner, Andreas, Bülow, Elena, ...
Finger Pricking and Pain: A Never Ending Story
Without finger pricking, no self-measurement of blood glucose (SMBG) is possible. However, the number of scientific studies dealing with this topic, which is highly relevant for patients, is...
The quality of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) with modern blood glucose meters is considered by many as not being a relevant topic anymore. However, in reality, a number of open questions...
Inhaled Insulin: Take a Deep Breath, but How?
Heinemann, Lutz, Scheuch, Gerhard, Heise, Tim
Inhalation of insulin is the first alternative route of insulin administration, which has been developed to such a mature status that the first product (Exubera®, Pfizer) was made available to the...