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…
It’s not too often we have a new insulin making its way on the scene, so we were excited to hear that Novo Nordisk filed two applications with the FDA for a new “ultra long acting” insulin called Degludec, and another for something called DegludecPlus, a combination of degludec and insulin aspart (Novolog), which would be available in an insulin pen in a fixed 70% degludec/30% Novolog ratio. The company is hoping for FDA approval…
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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,…