By
WilD on
September 10, 2012
What would you say if someone offered you a safe pill that could lower your blood sugar, help you lose weight, preserve beta cell function, and keep Alzheimer’s at bay?
Actually, that’s the wrong question. The question isn’t what you would say, but what would you pay?
That’s likely the question that was on the boardroom table at bio-tech firm Metabolic Solutions Development Company (MSDC), when they bet the $55-million farm on their pair of…
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Happy Saturday! With the weekend comes your chance to Ask D’Mine! — through our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil responds to reader questions about lowering your @#$! blood sugar without insulin, and about the real value of the Glycemic Index.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Bill from Indiana, type 2, asks: Is there a fast way to lower your blood…
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Since we tend to be pretty America-centric over here, we wanted to shine a spotlight on the annual conference for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), which is Europe’s equivalent to the American Diabetes Association. EASD is a huge professional org for doctors, researchers, nurses, students, and so on, with 7,000 members — from 110 different countries!
In addition to the annual conference, the EASD also produces their own trade publication, Diabetologia,…
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Hello PWDs. You are now entering the DiabetesMine Sunday Funnies zone, featuring the work of lovable diabetes snark-artist Haidee Merritt. Missed last week’s Funnies? Check ‘em out here.
Your Funnies for today……
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By
AmyT on
November 17, 2009
Al Mann, CEO of MannKind Corp., is something of a legend in his own time. He not only founded MiniMed, acquired by Medtronic, but also four other successful medical companies. He’s a billionaire, with his own Biomedical Engineering Institute at the University of Southern California (USC), so we can assume that he’s not just championing the new inhalable insulin product Technosphere (brand name Afresa) as some kind of pipe dream or get-rich-quick scheme.
The guy…
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