Boston, MA — In the United States, the drug price for insulin has skyrocketed over the last two decades. While the price has increased for all forms of insulin, newer, “analogue” insulin medications such as glargine and lispro have become especially expensive. This is particularly true for patients with insufficient drug coverage or for Medicare...
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Stanford researchers use zinc to target insulin-producing cells with regenerative drug
An insulin injection can manage diabetes symptoms, but actually curing the disease would mean healing cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the amount of sugar in blood. One promising approach may be to stimulate the regeneration of those cells with drugs. But there’s a major obstacle: The growth triggered by...
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Insulin shortage could affect 40 million people with type 2 diabetes
About 40 million people who will need insulin to manage their type 2 diabetes in 12 years’ time will not get it unless access to the drug is significantly improved, according to new research. Diagnoses of type 2 diabetes are soaring worldwide, linked to the obesity epidemic. Not all of those diagnosed will need insulin,...
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Supply chain transparency needed to combat soaring insulin costs
Endocrine Society recommends policies to lower costs for people with diabetes WASHINGTON–Spiraling insulin costs have created a dangerous barrier for many people with diabetes who need to access lifesaving treatments. The Endocrine Society is calling on stakeholders across the supply chain to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for people with diabetes. More information about the factors driving cost increases is needed to effectively combat the trend, the Endocrine Society said...
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Could a white pigment be a cause of Type 2 diabetes?
A study has found crystals of a common white pigment in pancreas specimens of those with Type 2 diabetes, suggesting there could be a link between the disease and pigment. An extracted TiO2 crystal from the pancreas of a Type 2 diabetes sufferer and the resulting electron diffraction pattern. Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The...
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Planned intermittent fasting may help reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors
And cut out need for insulin while controlling blood glucose Planned intermittent fasting may help to reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors writing in the journal BMJ Case Reports after three patients in their care, who did this, were able to cut out the need for insulin treatment altogether. Around one in 10 people in the US and Canada have type 2 diabetes, which is associated with other serious illness and early...
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Diabetes: Fridge temperature may make insulin less effective
New research that set out to analyze the temperatures at which people living with diabetes store their insulin is now warning against the perils of improper storage for the quality and effectiveness of the hormone. Storage temperatures may affect the quality of the insulin. More than 30 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes....
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Mellitus Health and Smart Meter Announce Strategic Partnership for Connected Insulin Titration
TAMPA, Fla. – September 5, 2018 – Mellitus Health, Inc., the developer of Insulin Insights™, the first FDA-cleared and CE-registered clinician decision-support tool for titrating all types of insulin, all eight standard dosing regimens and 125 combinations of insulin, and Smart Meter LLC, an innovative diabetes management technology and solutions company, announced today a strategic...
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Natural ways to improve insulin sensitivity
Insulin sensitivity refers to how sensitive the body’s cells are in response to insulin. Doctors generally consider a high insulin sensitivity to be healthy. Some lifestyle and dietary changes may help improve this sensitivity. Insulin is a hormone that helps control the amount of sugar, or glucose, in the blood. The body’s cells respond to...
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Comprehensive analysis of body composition and insulin traits associated with intra-pancreatic fat deposition in health and new-onset prediabetes/diabetes after acute pancreatitis
Abstract Current knowledge on biomarkers of intra-pancreatic fat deposition (IFD) is limited. We aimed to analyze comprehensively body composition and insulin traits as biomarkers of IFD in healthy normoglycaemic individuals as well as individuals with new-onset prediabetes and diabetes after acute pancreatitis (NODAP). A total of 29 healthy and 34 NODAP individuals took part in...