Novo Nordisk’s widely popular GLP-1 analog Victoza made headlines at the beginning of the year when celebrity chef Paula Deen became a spokesperson for the drug.  This month Victoza is in the news again after  Novo Nordisk received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to update the product label for Victoza (liraglutide)....

Americans love Paula Deen, and they love her recipes.  That’s why Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s largest makers of diabetes treatments, thought she’d be the perfect person to reach the tens of millions of diabetics and pre-diabetics in southern and middle America – where her recipes are widely popular – and...

Victoza (liraglutide) is by far Novo Nordisk’s fastest growing diabetes drug with a reported 185% growth in the first nine months of 2011. Introduced in Europe during the last quarter of 2009 and during the first quarter of 2010 in the US, Victoza quickly gained considerable market share with over 400 million dollars in sales in...

Last month, the annual American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions was a busy time for Novo Nordisk; with almost three-quarters of revenue coming from their diabetes products, they had a lot of news to share and studies to publicize. News in the clinical world, though, is different than news in the rest of the world, and indeed...

In the spring I prepared my plot in a community garden. I was eager to plant hot peppers, Swiss chard, tomatoes, and at my son’s request, even jack’o lantern pumpkins. I wanted to try baby watermelons, too. But gardening proved slow this year in Michigan. It rained so much in late spring that I couldn’t plant anything until...

  With today’s growing type 2 diabetes epidemic, there’s a need for new ways to treat the disease.  Not everyone achieves good glycemic control with oral medications and some medications, like insulin, lead to weight gain.  For type 2 diabetics who also suffer from obesity, any treatment that can lead to weight gain...

Hersheypark’s Certified Executive Chef, Charlie Gipe, knew he would become a chef when he was a child. On a Scouting trip where he ate terrible food, he realized that with the basic cooking skills he’d learned from his father, he could cook better than the troop leaders.  Charlie went on to study at The Culinary Institute...

The African-American Guide to Living Well with Diabetes by Constance Brown-Riggs with Tamara Jeffries is aimed at the more than four million African Americans with diabetes. It covers the basics of food, exercise and medicine, but highlights two things not often found in diabetes books: soul food and spirit. Brown helps readers fold...

Diabetes is prevalent in our society and so are carbohydrates.  On numerous occasions I’ve heard people say, “I never met a carbohydrate I did not like.”  Let’s face it, carbohydrates are easily accessible, usually inexpensive, tasty, they can be made into interesting and fancy concoctions, and sadly, they can be a addictive...

Researchers have been working for more than 20 years to develop regenerative medicine therapies which will repair or replace tissue or organ function that does not heal or repair on its own.  This field, still in its infancy, holds great promise.  To date, however, there’s been a fair share of disappointment surrounding regenerative...