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AmyT on
September 16, 2010
Calibra Medical’s new insulin “patch pen,” brand-named Finesse, has been approved by the FDA and performed extremely well in recent patient studies. The product could be a huge hit — if the company can secure the financial backing it needs to get production off the ground, according to the physician leading their research charge.
So let’s start at the beginning here: What the heck is a “patch pen,” anyway? That’s what I wanted to know.…
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AmyT on
August 23, 2010
My Spring post on the new injectable type 2 diabetes drug Victoza is in the running for one of the most-commented-ever blog posts here at the ‘Mine. Over 100 people now taking the medication have chimed in.
Victoza, for the unfamiliar, is a new once-daily form of the new-generation GLP-1 drugs that stimulate pancreas cells to release insulin in people with type 2 diabetes. It’s a head-to-head competitor with the injectable drug Byetta, and both…
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By
AmyT on
January 25, 2010
You’ve heard it before: someone with type 2 diabetes goes on insulin. That’s no surprise. But how often have you heard the reverse — someone with type 1 going on Metformin?
Since the launch of Symlin in 2005, it’s not uncommon for people to treat their type 1 diabetes with a supplemental injectable medication. But hang around long enough, and you too might get to know someone with type 1 who takes insulin and oral meds,…
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AmyT on
December 14, 2009
By far the most positive thing that has come out of getting this stupid chronic illness is meeting incredible people. Who knew there were so many wonderful kindred spirits out there, before I began connecting with others who struggle all day every day with carb counts and insulin dosing calcs and potentially dangerous blood sugar lows?
What I’m getting at is that I had the chance to meet another of these kindred souls in the…
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It’s not every day that you pick up a diabetes book with an ice cream cone on the cover — or two, actually! (OK, one is squashed) But the new book by fellow Type 1 D-writer and advocate Riva Greenberg is something different in many ways.
There are numerous books that aim to dispel myths about diabetes, of course. But Riva’s “50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and the 50 Diabetes Truths That…
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