Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...
Toymaker Mattel has launched its latest addition to the Barbie range of dolls, the first with type 1 diabetes, which comes complete with a wearable continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and insulin pump.