Diabetes: Artificial pancreas--first head-to-head comparison of dual-hormone and single-hormone systems (Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism)

The artificial pancreas--a promising approach for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)--has demonstrated superiority over conventional insulin pump therapy in clinical trials; however, until now, the benefits, if any, of the dual-hormone system (which delivers glucagon and insulin) over the single-hormone system (which