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Type 2 Diabetes News

Type 2 Diabetes is a chronic condition involving high blood sugar levels and reduced production and responsiveness to insulin.     

The Changing Diabetes Bus, sponsored by Novo Nordisk, was set up on Pier 39 during the ADA meeting in June in San Francisco. It arrived from a tour in India and is next...
A closer look at incretins and Byetta.
Get smart - Intelligence from your doctor's recent diabetes meetings.
Delta Burke is an emmy-nominated Broadway actress who has also appeared in movies like What Women Want and TV shows like Boston Legal and most notably Designing Women ...
Measured strides away from pre-prediabetes.
Matters of the Heart: Diabetes and Relationships
Our highs and lows while trying out Symlin.
At the American Diabetes Association’s 71st annual Scientific Sessions held in late June in San Diego, we became excited about a number of therapies in development...
Dismantling Avandia, Actos and TZDs.
We wrote about the bus when we saw it at the ADA meeting in Chicago. We crossed paths with it again when we were at the EASD conference in Amsterdam and in Berlin during...
Integrated Diabetes Services has put together a mealtime insulin-dosing calculator. This is a great tool to help patients learn how to “optimize” the amount of insulin...
Insulin: How to Restore a Tarnished Miracle
On April 26, the FDA will either approve a new drug for obesity called rimonabant...or they won't. We do think it will be approved, however, with warnings about...
Live from DT, EASD, AADE and TCOYD.
Cutting through the information clutter in this issue.
Kerri downloads from day 1.
Even as a 13–year-old, Jennifer Dorn knew that there could be a perfect bag, one that could be both a purse and a “diabetic pack.” Now in her late 20s, Dorn has founded...
The Diabetes Barometer
Low Blood Sugar: View From the Bottom of the Well
Cutting through the information clutter.

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