Life Scan has announced the voluntary recall of their OneTouch Verio IQ Meter. The reason given by LifeScan for the recall of the glucose meter is that under very specific circumstances the OneTouch Verio IQ Meter produces an error that causes the meter to turn itself off when a user attempts to access...
"Paula Deen is not the diabetes poster child," said Ambre Morely, associate director of product communications at Novo Nordisk. "She's an everyday person with type 2 diabetes...
I first learned about National Eating Disorders Awareness (NEDA) Week (February 26 -March 3, 2012) on Gena Hamshaw's fantastic blog, Choosing Raw. The mission of NEDA Awareness Week "is to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment.
The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion in the European Union (EU) for the expanded use of Byetta (exenatide twice-daily) as an add-on therapy to basal insulin, with or without metformin and/or Actos® (pioglitazone)...
Insulet Corporation, the company behind OmniPod Insulin Management System, announced it has signed a worldwide agreement with LifeScan, Inc. to integrate LifeScan's OneTouch blood glucose monitoring technology into...
They deal with diabetes as best they can, with two test strips a day to measure their glucose and an insulin preparation that should be banned for kids with type 1 diabetes...