LCT’s DIABECELL® Registered for Sale and Use in Russia

20 December 2010
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Hi everyone – this just hot off the press from an email I just received from Living Cell Technologies, which is the company doing pig cell trials in NZ under Professor Bob Elliot. This is pretty big news! Press release dropped in verbatim, below…

Company Announcement10 December 2010 – Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand– Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT; OTCQX: LVCLY), a global company pioneering the development of cell implants to treat diabetes, announced today that its Russian subsidiary, LCT Biomedical Limited, has received registration of the Company’s groundbreaking diabetes treatment, DIABECELL, as a marketable medical technology in Russia. Registration allows for the sale and use of the DIABECELL technology in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes…

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By Nic on 20 December 2010 at 12.51 pm
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Aaron: It’s Dad’s fault.

10 November 2010
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I was perusing the annals of the internet last week and saw this article on Stuff.co.nz about how scientists have research indicating that fathers with high fat diets may be a cause of diabetes in their daughters?

You can read the full article here.

Seriously, I am all for research and understanding the causes and contributing factors behind T1 but come on, isn’t this a little ridiculous? It feels like there are all sorts of links between so many different conditions (white bread and cancer is one I hear often) and they just keep coming. Certainly, there are links between food and lifestyle which it is essential to know about for preventative measures but I…

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By Aaron on 10 November 2010 at 9.00 am
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Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?

4 November 2010
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I dunno about you guys but when I was a kid (less so as an adult now) I got the distinct feeling that here in NZ, we were very, very behind in the treatments, technologies and knowledge from a diabetes perspective.

Lantus has only just been subsidized in NZ compared to at least 6 years ago in Europe, we didn’t seem to get blood testers anywhere near as fast as North America or even Australia did and Analog insulins had to be fought hard for back in the 1990’s so that we had the luxury of not having to wait for 30 minutes after taking a dose of Actrapid which along with monotard was pretty much the only choice of treatment I…

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By Aaron on 4 November 2010 at 8.00 am
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Aaron: The Finesse ‘Patch Pen’. Insulin Pump meets pen?

22 October 2010
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I was writing some posts today and as I punched the keys I spotted twitter in the top corner of my screen with news from DiabetesMine about a new development in insulin delivery that has just been approved by the FDA (or Federal Drug Administration of America which is their PHARMAC).

I had a read and thought it worthy of a mention.

The full article can be read here but for those of you that don’t have time to read it (it’s short!) here is the essential gist of it all:

It’s being described as a ‘Patch pump’
Extremely small at only a few centimeters
Contains a 200 unit reservoir of insulin (the same

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By Aaron on 22 October 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: The first insulin

19 October 2010
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This post is thanks directly to a comment made by Sarah on Nic’s post from a couple of weeks ago so I take no credit for discovering it or for writing it because I’m just paraphrasing!

In any case, it was a very interesting and well written/researched article published by the NY times about an exhibition taking place at the New York Historical Society regarding the history of insulin, but more specifically focusing on it’s actual invention, the first patients to receive it, and the behind the scenes story of it all.

As I said, the article is very well written, complete with a great description of the difference between T1 and T2 so that people are clear…

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By Aaron on 19 October 2010 at 9.29 am
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