WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diabetes advocates and a company that makes insulin pumps announced plans on Wednesday to team up to make a so-called artificial pancreas -- a system of pumps and monitors to manage type-1 diabetes. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation said it had chosen Johnson & Johnson unit Animas to develop and test the new system. "This is going to be ...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court drew cheers Tuesday from fellow diabetics and advocacy groups, who hailed her as a historic role model for those struggling with the disease. The American Diabetes Association said in a statement that her nomination showed how "each person with diabetes should be judged based on his or her merits, not on ...