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Today in Focus

How a new treatment for diabetes offers hope for millions

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The development of an ‘artificial pancreas’ could revolutionise the daily lives of people living with type 1 diabetes. Now the technology could be made available to more than 100,000 people in the UK on the NHS. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.4

Today, the revolutionary diabetes treatment

0:14.5

that could change the lives of tens of thousands of people.

0:26.1

So from the moment I wake up, I look at my phone.

0:28.8

My phone tells me I'd blood sugar levels.

0:31.4

Get ready like every normal person.

0:33.6

Then it comes to breakfast.

0:35.2

If I have cereal, what I do is I weigh this cereal out.

0:38.0

You have to know the exact carbs.

0:40.4

I've got to see what blood sugar level is.

0:42.4

Then I type that into my insulin pump.

0:44.8

It can be very complicated lunchtime.

0:46.9

If I decide to have a sandwich and a banana and a packet of Chris.

0:52.3

Jade Burn knows well what it takes to live with type 1 diabetes.

0:57.2

She was diagnosed with this autoimmune condition when she was four years old.

1:02.2

And she remembers how scary it was when the doctors told her

1:06.8

how she hid from them on the hospital ward.

1:10.0

In the more than 30 years since then,

1:13.3

she's got used to a regime of recording how many carbohydrates there are in everything she eats.

1:19.9

And pricking her finger multiple times a day to test how much glucose there is in her blood.

1:25.5

If you think of pricking, you think of pricking first thing on the morning when you wake up.

1:29.9

You think of pricking before every meal.

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