Year: 2013
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Medicine/Drugs
Afrezza Enters the Home Stretch…Again
Could a new insulin inhaler be approved for 2014? An FDA decision on Afrezza is expected in the coming months.
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Medicine/Drugs
Insulin Costs Spike Upward; Will Generics Help?
The biggest suppliers of insulin have raised the prices of the drug again.
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Medicine/Drugs
The Connection Between Glowing Bunnies and Diabetes Research
Researchers have spliced a jellyfish gene into rabbit DNA to make glow-in-the-dark bunnies. It’s an advance that has implications for…
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Meters & CGMs
Better Math, Smarter Meters
With insurance reimbursements for test strips slashed, meter makers may be able to increase their market share by delivering more…
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Cure Insight
Study Seeks Environmental Factors to Type 1 Diabetes
Australian researchers want to interview 1400 mothers to see if lifestyle and diet might affect rates of Type 1 diabetes…
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Medicine/Drugs
Court Rules in Favor of California Schools on Insulin Shots
Children with diabetes in California will have an easier time getting insulin injections at school this fall, thanks to a…
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Living
People with Diabetes in the NFL for the 2013-2014 Season
These NFL players prove that diabetes needn’t hold you back. Read about three PWD football players to follow during training…
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Medicine/Drugs
Zombie Drug May Help Type 1 Kids
Researchers have found promise in a Type 1 diabetes drug that was left for dead in 2010.
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Treatment
Reimbursement Changes Rattle Diabetes Medical Industry
The U.S. government has changed the way it reimburses for many diabetes supplies. Will this spark innovation or crisis in…
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Meters & CGMs
Strip Recall Could Strengthen Calls For More FDA Oversight
The FDA announces Nova Diabetes Care is recalling 62 million glucose test strips. Could this recall have been prevented by…
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Meters & CGMs
Test Strip Accuracy: Blood In, Garbage Out?
Meter accuracy is critical to good diabetes care, and, right now, procedures don’t exist for measuring accuracy after the FDA…
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Living
Sleep Apnea in Kids: A Total Nightmare
Once linked primarily to overweight older men with Type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea can affect kids with diabetes, too.…
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Medicine/Drugs
Glaxo Settles with States on Avandia
GlaxoSmithKline agrees to pay $229 million to nine states to settle claims over Avandia, its once-popular diabetes drug. At the…
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Medicine/Drugs
Insulin Resistance: What You Need To Know
Measuring insulin resistance might be the key to stopping prediabetes from becoming Type 2 diabetes.
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Medicine/Drugs
Marijuana-based diabetes drug progresses in U.K.
Researchers are trying to determine how to utilize compounds in marijuana to control insulin levels. A U.K. drugmaker reports promise…
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Living
A New Role For “Misplaced Parents?”
Parents of kids with diabetes accumulate both diabetes knowledge and wisdom as they help manage the disease every day. Then…
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Hypoglycemia
Harnessing Hypos: Glucagon As An Everyday Tool
Controlling blood glucose like a normal pancreas does, using insulin and glucagon in tandem, is the aim of a San…
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Hypoglycemia
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Medicine/Drugs
Beta Cell Growth Factor or Just HOT Air?
Tests of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on pre-diabetic mice show promise in generating beta cell growth and preventing or slowing the…
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Artificial Pancreas
A Close Encounter With The Bionic Pancreas
Read Kelly Close's first-hand account of trying out the bionic pancreas that is generating all the headlines this week.
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