Summer 2012

Before the discovery of insulin in 1922, children and adults who developed Type 1 diabetes usually died within a few months of the disease’s onset. That all changed when insulin became widely available, but women with diabetes still faced another challenge: significant odds that their offspring would be born with birth defects. Even today, women diagnosed with diabetes (either Type 1 or Type 2) before they become pregnant have a greater risk of having a child with a severe birth defect than nondiabetic women. In her laboratory at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Mary Loeken ’80, M.S., biological sciences,… Continue Reading Lowering the Odds – Mary Loeken '80, M.S., BioSci

Before the discovery of insulin in 1922, children and adults who developed Type 1 diabetes usually died within a few months of the disease’s onset. That all changed when insulin became widely available, but women with diabetes still faced another challenge: significant odds that their offspring would be born with birth defects. Even today, women diagnosed with diabetes (either Type 1 or Type 2) before they become pregnant have a greater risk of having a child with a severe birth defect than nondiabetic women. In her laboratory at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Mary Loeken ’80, M.S., biological sciences,… Continue Reading Lowering the Odds – Mary Loeken ’80, M.S., BioSci