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help!! Am relatively new to this diabetes lark, diagnosed 4 years ago, messed around with tablets for a while before docs realised I should be on insulin. Anyway, we camp in the summer and I'm not sure what to do with my insulin. The pens I'm using should be ok unless I'm in the tent and its...

Blocking the hormone that raises sugar levels in the blood could increase insulin levels while keeping blood sugar levels down. The findings in mice, to be published in eLife, point to a novel way to treat diabetes -- but only in some patients. They also challenge the benefits of the strategy...

Hi, I have been advised to switch from tablet to insulin, I hold a PCV License, I have a small amount of time to think about it, has anyone been successful and how long did the process take. I always was told that, once on insulin professional licence would be revoked. Thank you in advance.

Today, the gold standard for insulin therapy is the subcutaneous injection of insulin (CSII), despite a non-physiological route of administration with suboptimal glycemic control showed in some patients. Inability of CSII therapy to prevent inflammation and oxidative stress was firstly...

Scientists can now see exactly how much insulin was present in the pancreas of a living animal. The researchers genetically engineered a mouse that makes the protein that the body uses to produce human insulin, called proinsulin. By engineering the protein as a fluorescent protein, it reacted in...

New research from the University of Copenhagen points to an entirely new approach for designing insulin-based pharmaceuticals. The approach could open the door for more personalized medications with fewer side effects for Type 1 Diabetes patients. Knud J. Jensen is a professor at the University...

Hi all Having woken up at 6.30am this morning to a reading of 15.6 (I'm Type 2 but insulin dependent), I took 60 units of Levemir and 32 Novorapid. I then dropped to 8.1 and then still further to 7.2. I had lunch at 12.50pm which was a Boots sub with chicken and bacon and a pack of McCoys (high...

Hi all, I'm 17 and my mum has had Type 2 Diabetes for 20-something years now, after gestational diabetes with my elder sister. T2 runs down my mum's side of the family (yay genes..) and I have grown up with it in my life; I have memories from my childhood of sitting on the bed with my mum...

A diabetes nurse’s pioneering case study which used ultrasounds to scan injection sites to help people with diabetes has been showcased at an international conference. The work of Linda Clapham, a diabetes specialist nurse at Wharfedale Hospital in Leeds, was presented by Debbie Hicks a nurse...