Latest Insulin therapy Stories

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Calibra Medical announced today it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Finesse(TM) insulin patch-pen for up to three-day use with Novo Nordisk's Novolog® rapid acting insulin. Combining the mealtime therapy-adherence benefits of insulin pumps with the simplicity and affordability of syringes and pens, Calibra's novel bolus-only patch-pen is a small, adhesively attached, flat device that can...

SAN MATEO, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the worst case scenarios that can happen to a diabetic is if he or she falls into a hypoglycemic coma. This is caused by a severe deficiency in glucose levels found in the blood which causes the brain to seek other energy sources at the same time shutting down other important body functions. If treatment is delayed or neglected by the diabetic person, such a coma can cause not only loss of consciousness but also irreversible brain damage...

ZURICH, July 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Novo Nordisk announced the landmark recruitment of the 60,000th patient in the A1chieve(R) study - an observational study designed to investigate the effects of modern insulins in the management of type 2 diabetes.[1] Spanning 28 countries across 4 continents and involving more than 3300 physicians, A1chieve(R) is set to be the world's largest observational study in insulin therapy. Approximately 70 percent of the world's 285...

DALLAS and NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ACCP), announced today that it has entered into a pre-licensing feasibility agreement with a leading biotechnology company to develop an oral formulation of its currently-marketed, proprietary injectable drugs. Access will utilize its proprietary Cobalamin Oral Drug Delivery Technology to develop oral formulations of the drug for pre-clinical testing. Although the terms of the agreement...

DANBURY, Conn., July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Biodel Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOD) today reported results of preclinical tests which demonstrated the potential of the company's glucose-regulated or "smart" basal insulin product candidate, BIOD620, to release insulin proportionally in response to changing glucose conditions. In an oral presentation today at the 37th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Controlled Release Society in Portland, Oregon, Nandini Kashyap, director of novel drug...

JERUSALEM, Israel, July 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB: ORMP.OB) (http://www.oramed.com), a developer of oral delivery systems, today announced that Oramed entered into a Manufacturing Supply Agreement (MSA) with sanofi-aventis. According to the MSA, sanofi-aventis will supply Oramed with specified quantities of recombinant human insulin to be used by Oramed for its clinical trials in the USA. The MSA is managed by the Commercial and External...

DANBURY, Conn., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Biodel Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOD) announced today that the following abstracts describing results from studies of the company's product candidates have been accepted for presentation in September during the 46th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm. Oral Presentation: #OP 01, Oral session on novel formulations and delivery of insulin, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM "A novel pH-neutral...

ORLANDO, Fla., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Novo Nordisk, a world leader in diabetes care, and Indy Lights race car driver Charlie Kimball today announced the availability of a wide array of resources to help kids with diabetes have a positive and rewarding summer camp experience. Kimball, who has type 1 diabetes, will hand out one of these resources today to attendees at the Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference in Orlando this week - the NovoLog® (insulin aspart (rDNA origin)...

Adding a continuous blood sugar level sensor to an insulin pump helps patients with type 1 diabetes achieve better blood sugar control compared to the common standard of care, multiple daily insulin injections, concludes a study published online June 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine.The paper is entitled, Effectiveness of Sensor-Augmented Insulin-Pump therapy in Type 1 Diabetes."Combining the best technologies for insulin delivery and blood sugar monitoring really pays off for...

SAN DIEGO, June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HALO) today announced clinical trial results showing that the addition of its proprietary rHuPH20 (recombinant human hyaluronidase, PH20) enzyme to three different mealtime insulin analogs accelerated their absorption. The acceleration produced by the coadministration of rHuPH20 produced significantly more pronounced insulin effects during the first hour after injection as well as a more rapid diminution of...