Mary Tyler Moore tells how she took control of diabetes

Great look at Mary Tyler Moore's life with diabetes, including a video segment.

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MannKind asks FDA to approve inhaled insulin

Inhaled insulin is not dead yet! Even though Pfizer's product bombed, a company called MannKind is still bullish on offering a viable product.

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MannKind Updates Status Of NDA Submission For AFRESA

MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq: MNKD) provided an update on the status of its new drug application ("NDA") for AFRESA(R), an ultra rapid-acting insulin that has completed Phase 3 clinical trials. As previously announced, our internal goal was to submit the NDA to the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") by the end of February. Based on editorial decisions made during the final stages of preparing the dossier, we have decided to extend the submission date by approximately... read more

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Liraglutide, Next-Generation Antidiabetic Medication

Under development by Novo Nordisk, liraglutide is a member of a new class of antidiabetic medications called GLP-1 analogues. These mirror the effects of naturally produced glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which includes glucose-dependent stimulation of insulin secretion, suppression of glucagon secretion, reduction of appetite and delay of food absorption.

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The History of Diabetes

For 2,000 years diabetes has been recognized as a devastating and deadly disease. In the first century A.D. a Greek, Aretaeus, described the destructive nature of the affliction which he named "diabetes" from the Greek word for "siphon." Eugene J. Leopold in his text Aretaeus the Cappodacian describes Aretaeus' diagnosis: "...For fluids do not remain in the body, but use the body only as a channel through which they may flow out. Life lasts only... read more

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Go-ahead for pig cell trial on humans

Diabetes sufferers are hoping for a cure with a long-awaited Government decision giving the go-ahead to a clinical trial transplanting pig tissue into humans.

Diabetes sufferers are ecstatic, but the decision has outraged opponents of genetic engineering and disturbed some clinicians, who warn the trial could unleash pig viruses into the human population.

Auckland biotech company Living Cell Technologies finally received provisional approval from Health Minister David Cunliffe yesterday, 18 months after getting the all-clear... read more

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What You Might Not Know About Insulin

If you have been diagnosed as a Diabetic, and have been told that you need to consider taking insulin, well you are not alone. Here recently there has been a lot of folks beginning to take insulin. It is a decision for that person and their doctor to decide. Never start taking anything without first asking your doctor's opinion.

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Getting Down to Basals

To borrow a phrase from the late, great Rodney Dangerfield, “Basal insulin gets no respect.” Very few people know how to spell it correctly (basil? bazal? I mean, really!), and even fewer know what the heck it’s for. That’s a shame, because basal insulin (no “z”) is the foundation upon which insulin therapy is built.

Unlike its more famous little brother bolus, which is the rapid-acting insulin given to cover those delicious carbohydrates in our... read more

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Take This Test on Insulin: You May Be Smarter Than a Doctor!

Take this test on insulin and see if you can get a higher score than hospital doctors and nurses.

When you first heard about the game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” maybe you thought, “Of course an adult will be able to answer a first-grade science question, or a second-grade geography question.”

Then you watched the show.

“Which of the Great Lakes lies farthest east?” Um… Erie? “In the Northern Hemisphere, the... read more

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Exciting New Insulin Technology: Smart Insulin

The article describes a new technology being developed called "Smart Insulin," which is an insulin that responds to glucose.

The new insulin "senses" high glucose levels and automatically dispenses insulin on demand. As glucose levels drop off, the drug stabilizes, trapping insulin until the next glucose spike.

The drug will be in clinical trials within the next 2 years - seems very promising to me!!!

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