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• SoloSTAR(R), The First Prefilled Disposable Insulin Pen For Lantus(R)

• Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring Shows Excellent Results

• Diabetes Care Accounts For One Of Every Eight Health Care Dollars In 2005, Study Finds

June 2007

• Sir Frederick Banting homestead sold to developer, family outraged.

• Seattle at forefront for Type 1 diabetes research--Rates here are growing -- and no one knows why

•  Mr. Universe beats rap/Bodybuilder was suffering from insulin shock during cop brawl

• Diabetes epidemic

May 2007

• New Data Confirm That Use Of Levemir® Can Limit Weight Gain

• Diabetics at risk of exposure to disease 

• Enhancements to Program Make Drugs More Affordable

April 2007

• Mr. Universe's Police Run-In Becomes a Force for Education

• Abbot Announces FDA Clearance and Launch of New FreeStyle Lite(TM) Blood Glucose Monitoring System

• Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Sugar For A Hypoglycemic Person?
• An economic assessment of analgue basal-bolus insulin vs human basal-bolus insulin in subjects with Type 1 diabetes in UK
• Short acting insulin analogues for treating diabetic patients with CSII
• OneTouch® Meter Upgrade Offered To OneTouch® Users At No Charge
• Levemir® Approved In Europe For Use In Combination With Oral Antidiabetic Drugs
• Lilly Introduces World's First Digital Insulin Pen With Memory
• New Insulin Pen has memory chip. Battery operated device can track doses, but may be too pricey for some.
• Schools need injection of common sense  This article contains an interview with the founder of this website.

February 2007

• new website of Chuck Eichten author of "Better is Better"
• Notice of Decision for APIDRA.  Approved.

January 2007

• People With Diabetes, Employers Struggle With Defining Disease As Disability
• Recent Successes Re-Vitalizing Interest In Continuous Glucose Monitoring - Report Analyzes Technology And Commercial Factors
• Diabetech To Transform Global Diabetes Care In 2007 With Launch Of GlucoMON2 Wireless Glucose Meter
• Long- and short-haul travel by air: issues for people with diabetes on insulin
• Diabetes Made Visible is a collection of photographs at flicker.
• Tips For People With Diabetes To Manage Holidays With Ease

November 2006

• Medic Alert Canada launches its NO CHILD WITHOUT program in specific provinces through schools.  They hope to one day expand the program beyond Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. FDA Clearance Received for CozMore® Insulin Technology System Updates AgaMatrix's Zero-Click Software System Receives FDA Clearance

   
• JDRF "Trick or Treats" on Parliament Hill.
• Joslin Diabetes Center In Boston Establishes First Affiliate In Canada

October 2006

• Physician Resistance Hinders Diabetics Use Of Cutting Edge Technology, Duke Researchers Find
• MicroIslet Comments On NIH Plan To Combat Type 1 Diabetes
• New Easy-To-Learn Blood Glucose Meter Focuses On The Essentials Of Testing
• FDA Issues Nationwide Alert On Counterfeit One Touch Basic/Profile And One Touch Ultra Blood Glucose Test Strips
• Plan Will Guide NIH Research in Type 1 Diabetes
• Duke researchers find physician resistance hinders diabetics use of cutting edge technology
• Abbott’s Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor Approval Soon
• Compound Found In Fish Damages Pancreatic Cells
• Diabetes patients, therapy undergo trial by fire

Summer 2006

• Exubera Success May Hinge on Usability
   

June 2006

• A Bite and Bark That Saved a Life--Cellphone Chomp Called 911 for Beagle's Owner
• Fifth of diabetics skip critical test
• Quilt for Life' Display Set For Washington D.C. Mall -- Children's Colorful and Emotional Quilts Show True Face of Diabetes
• Living and rowing with diabetes
• Diabetics get high-tech help to track sugar
• Home schooling dispute leads to foster care

May 2006

• Don't use kids as pawns in turf war
• Return diabetic boy, brother to their parents, doctor says
• Brothers returned to parents
• In Canada Taken as if they're not yours....Quebec parents of a diabetic son who refuse to send him to an "unsafe" school lose him to the state
• Debate Over Inhaled Insulin  NICE recommends not using inhaled insulin as its  high cost versus injections and the risks to the lungs associated with the drug outweighs any published benefits.
• Adept Robotics Selected For Insulet's Diabetes Management System
• Disetronic Medical Systems, Inc. Announces a Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of All ACCU-CHEK™ Ultraflex Infusion Sets

March 2006

• Inhaling instead of injecting
• A Young Adults perspective on a life lived with Type 1 diabetes
• Medtronic of Canada Has Launched the Paradigm Real Time Insulin Pump!  See it on our Products and Techology page!

• Irrational Exubera-nce for Pfizer?

February 2006

• Diabetic Brothers Beat Odds With Grit and Luck  Experts say that they know of no other childhood diabetic who has lived to be as old as Gerald (age 90yr), and no one has survived with the disease for as long as Robert (age age 88yr) almost 81 years has .

• Stock Trading - FDA Approves Inhalable Insulin

January 2006

• Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) & Diabetes: How Low Can You Go?

• Recalls of blood glucose meters emphasize human factors design

• Nova Scotians under the age of 65 with diabetes and no drug insurance are now able to register for the province's new diabetes assistance program, which begins Jan. 1.

• It’s diabetes day  World Diabetes Day is November 14th 

November 2005

• Canadian Gene Cure Foundation: Diagnosis of Rare Gene Mutation May Spare Certain Type 1 Diabetes Children Painful Insulin Injections The Canadian Gene Cure Foundation (CGCF) is pleased to award a grant of $65,000 to Dr. Constantin Polychronakos, a renowned McGill University endocrinologist.  

• ^{FDA has approved insulin detemir [rDNA origin] injection (Levemir, Novo Nordisk, Inc.)}

• ^{MUST READ Diabetes: Asia's silent killer by Paul Zimmet: Globally the WHO estimates the global diabetes population will grow to more than 200 million in 2010 and 330 million in 2025.}

  October 2005

• Embryonic stem cells advance diabetes cure

• Diabetes is a major risk to the unborn

• MoMA showcases Penn State researcher's device.  Prototype under the skin glucose sensor will be showcased in October.  

• Creator of blood glucose sensor dead at 86 years. 

August and September 2005

• MannKind Takes Its Shots in Insulin Race

• Can an individual crusader influence tax policy?

July 2005

• Novo Nordisk Launches GlucaGen® HypoKit™

• Twice the Trouble From 'Double Diabetes'

• Intensive therapy cuts diabetes problems

• Stuffed and ready to serve — the 'Staff Sergeant Thompson bear'  New bear with diabetes is dressed in army fatigues and modeled after a real US soldier with diabetes! Proceeds to benefit the American Diabetes Association.

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