Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is one of the most prevalent severe chronic diseases of childhood, affecting more than 170,000 children in the United States, an increase of 23% since 2001. In the US, more than 25,000 children are diagnosed annually with 1:200 children and 1:100 adults diagnosed with T1DM during the lifespan.

In part three of this exclusive interview, Dr. Don Fetterolf talks about the use of amniotic membrane in the healing of diabetic foot ulcers and the process of using the placenta to create the graphs.

In this week's Homerun Slides, pathogenesis and biological interventions in autoimmune diabetes.

There are times that patients think that, magically, they start doing things right and their diabetes improves. We have all seen the obese diabetes patient who has started losing weight and feels they are doing well, only to find out that the weight loss is coming from the failure of …