By
AmyT on
September 29, 2008
Getting a jump on Diabetes Awareness Month (coming in November), Novo Nordisk, Discovery Health and the JDRF today launched something called Young Voices Unite — a national online video campaign, inspired by the book published by Novo Nordisk a few years ago.
They’re inviting teens and young adults affected by Type 1 diabetes to submit a 1-minute video message with: 1) their personal story and 2) how our next president can help change the future…
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By
AmyT on
September 5, 2008
This morning Novo Nordisk announced that the FDA has scheduled an advisory committee meeting for its new Liraglutide once-daily GLP-1 drug, currently awaiting FDA approval. Believe it or not, this is huge news — with the potential to make or break a multi-billion-dollar diabetes drug category and set the tone for FDA safety proceedings in years to come.
What the FDA has done is to push off approval of Novo’s new Type 2 diabetes drug, over…
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Question: How can you tell if the insulin in any given vial is still good before injecting it?
Answer: You can’t! You have to “test” it on yourself by injecting and awaiting the blood sugar results.
Isn’t that crazy?!
A reader emailed me a week or so ago asking why there is no litmus test — like a strip of test paper where applying a few drops of insulin would yield either green for “good”…
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