What if someone said that you — someone with type 1 diabetes — could take a pill and your insulin requirements would not only drop, but they might be eliminated completely? Would you think they were crazy, or maybe confusing you with a type 2?
Well, it may not be a matter of sanity or misunderstanding. We might not be talking about a “magic pill” to make your diabetes disappear, but the early stages of…
Talk show funny guy Conan O’Brien is at it again. He has diabetes on his mind, apparently.
This morning we reported about a show in December in which he hosted a type 1 artist from Texas who has the unique ability to paint with her lipstick kisses.
Well, that fun story was a welcome change from last summer, when the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) responded to one of Conan’s segments that included a video game…
“Can’t you just take a pill?” is a question most of us have heard again and again whenever we take an injection or show off our insulin pump to family, friends, or strangers. Taking insulin orally has been a wish of PWDs for many years, but the “non-invasive dream” goes about as far as the stomach acid destroying the hormone before it reaches your blood stream.
Injecting insulin subcutaneously has been the only option considered…
Finding a less invasive method of taking insulin seems to be all the rage these days. Although the once-hailed Exhubera fizzled away, researchers have not given up on the “holy grail” of oral insulin. Aside from Mannkind’s Afrezza, which is delayed and controversial, there’s another kind of oral insulin that might be making its mark in the diabetes marketplace… eventually.
Meet MonoSol Rx.
This New Jersey-based company has created PharmFilm, a thin, postage-sized film that…
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…