We are beholden.

3 June 2010
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Like it or not, as insulin addicts, we are in a bit of a tight spot when it comes to the world markets. As those of us on Cozmo insulin pumps found out last year, market forces can have a profound effect on the availability of products we rely on to keep our diabetes under control.

The most recent example of this has sprung up in the last week, with insulin manufacturing giant Novo Nordisk deciding they won’t cut their prices for the Greek market, resulting in them stopping supply of “modern insulins”. I’ve had a bit of a…

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By Nic on 3 June 2010 at 9.10 am
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Insulin in a pill?

11 May 2010
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Well we’ve all heard of the inhalable insulin craze which pretty much self destructed into a haze of ineffectuality (is that a word?), with possible cancer scares to boot.

Now, it seems Novo Nordisk (among others) are exploring oral insulin in a different format: a pill. I’ll let you read the below article for yourself rather than regurgitate it:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25243/page1/

I’m really glad there is research going into stuff like this but I have a few doubts about this (for T1 at least). How we could change a high BG as fast with a pill as we could with insulin via injection is beyond me (having said that, do you see my science degree? That would be because I don’t…

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By Nic on 11 May 2010 at 9.40 am
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