(11/28, Zeller, Subscription Publication) reports that diabetics believe that "makers of medical devices are on the verge of a major breakthrough," an artificial pancreas, but the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International says that the Food and Drug Administration "has thus far been slow in approving protocols to guide researchers developing the device. At a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in June, Charles Zimliki, who oversees artificial-pancreas research for the FDA," said that the agency would submit guidance for researchers by December 1. The New York-based group has also "presented the FDA with a petition, signed by more than 100,000 people, urging quick action. It persuaded two senators, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, to publicly call for speeding approval of the device."
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