The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Abbott Laboratories' (ABT) diabetes unit about manufacturing violations involving the company's blood-glucose-monitoring systems, according to a report published on NASDAQ.com...
MannKind Corporation announced that it has submitted, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted, MannKind's resubmission of its New Drug Application (NDA) for AFREZZA(TM) (insulin human [rDNA origin]) and classified it as a Class 2 resubmission. With the Class 2 designation, the FDA set a corresponding...
Pfizer Inc. announced, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the suspension of the chronic low back pain and painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy studies in the clinical program for the investigational compound tanezumab. Investigation of the compound continues in some areas of high unmet medical need, including cancer pain...
Note to self: when someone asks you to write a book chapter…run. I do not think I have absorbed so much new information in such a short time since my…
Where I Left Off
In the last installment of my symlin saga, I had found that Symlin, Amlyn Pharmaceutical‘s synthetic amylin, helped slow…
The PDRC is a new state-of-the-art diabetes research and clinical center under the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego...
Lost luggage: Just about every frequent traveler has had to deal with it. My own worst loss of luggage happened when I flew to Turkey and my suitcase went to London. It was the same trip that Mike forgot to pack his glucometer.
I went on the Paleo diet because I was intrigued and thought it could help me control my blood sugar levels. Losing weight, although not a bad idea…
First, the good news. After writing that last post — the one where I found out that Air Baltic had lost the bag containing all of my non-diabetic…
The only movie I’ve ever seen in which diabetes plays a prominent role is Christopher Nolan’s 2000 thriller Memento. The protagonist of this film, Leonard, looses his short-term memory, but his diabetic wife thinks he’s faking. To force him to stop “pretending,” she asks him to give her an injection of insulin. He does so. A few minutes later, she tells him again: “It’s time for my insulin.” Leonard repeatedly injects her with insulin until she goes into a coma and dies.