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• SoloSTAR(R), The First Prefilled Disposable Insulin Pen For Lantus(R)

• Diabetic children are being forced to inject in the school toilets

• Barb Marche wins Jeff Hitchcock Distinguished Service Award

• Ben wins by just finishing triathlon

• Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring Shows Excellent Results

• Diabetes Care Accounts For One Of Every Eight Health Care Dollars In 2005, Study Finds

June 2007

• Vernon youth lobbies Congress for diabetes research funding

• On-Line Consultations for Healthy Children and Youth

•  Inhaled Insulin: Pulmonary Considerations 

• A Lifetime of Diabetes

• Sir Frederick Banting homestead sold to developer, family outraged.

• Seattle at forefront for Type 1 diabetes research--Rates here are growing -- and no one knows why

• Doug Burns Case to be Dismissed!! 

•  Mr. Universe beats rap/Bodybuilder was suffering from insulin shock during cop brawl

• Diabetes epidemic

May 2007

• New Data Confirm That Use Of Levemir® Can Limit Weight Gain

• Diabetics at risk of exposure to disease 

• Enhancements to Program Make Drugs More Affordable

April 2007

• Mr. Universe's Police Run-In Becomes a Force for Education

• Abbot Announces FDA Clearance and Launch of New FreeStyle Lite(TM) Blood Glucose Monitoring System

• www.insulinpumps.ca
• Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Sugar For A Hypoglycemic Person?
• An economic assessment of analgue basal-bolus insulin vs human basal-bolus insulin in subjects with Type 1 diabetes in UK
• Short acting insulin analogues for treating diabetic patients with CSII
• Pediatric Use of Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Therapy Is Appropriate
• OneTouch® Meter Upgrade Offered To OneTouch® Users At No Charge
• Levemir® Approved In Europe For Use In Combination With Oral Antidiabetic Drugs
• Lilly Introduces World's First Digital Insulin Pen With Memory
• New Insulin Pen has memory chip. Battery operated device can track doses, but may be too pricey for some.
• 22 year old female dies of Dead in Bed syndrome
• Schools need injection of common sense  This article contains an interview with the founder of this website.

February 2007

• new website of Chuck Eichten author of "Better is Better"
• Notice of Decision for APIDRA.  Approved.

January 2007

• Carb and calorie intake low in young diabetics
• People With Diabetes, Employers Struggle With Defining Disease As Disability
• Recent Successes Re-Vitalizing Interest In Continuous Glucose Monitoring - Report Analyzes Technology And Commercial Factors
• Diabetech To Transform Global Diabetes Care In 2007 With Launch Of GlucoMON2 Wireless Glucose Meter
• Long- and short-haul travel by air: issues for people with diabetes on insulin
• Diabetes Made Visible is a collection of photographs at flicker.
• Unite for Diabetes Travel Bugs
• Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring Improves Glycemic Control
• Tips For People With Diabetes To Manage Holidays With Ease

December 2006

• Nastech Announces Positive Phase 1 Clinical Results Of Insulin Nasal Spray Compared To Exubera(R) Inhalation Powder And NovoLog(C) Insulin
• Petersen won't let diabetes slow him
  Oilers forward living NHL dream despite disease
• Hope to restore Banting house dashed
• Doctors Believe Insulin Pump Therapy is Preferable to Insulin Injections for Managing Diabetes, Says Survey
• Cost-utility analysis of insulin pumps compared to multiple daily doses of insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus in Spain
• Clinical experience with an integrated continuous glucose sensor/insulin pump platform: a feasibility study.
• If you use a Cozmo pump in Canada, the support telephone numbers have changed! For customer support when you are having issues with your pump, call the US number on the back of your pump. They will send the details on to the Canadian offices and you should be set.  To purchase your pump supplies or other pump related product issues, contact Auto-Control at 1-800-461-0991
• CozMore System Now available in Canada!

November 2006

• Medic Alert Canada launches its NO CHILD WITHOUT program in specific provinces through schools.  They hope to one day expand the program beyond Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. FDA Clearance Received for CozMore® Insulin Technology System Updates AgaMatrix's Zero-Click Software System Receives FDA Clearance Ribbon tattoo helps mother share diabetic daughter's pain   Human Stem Cells Stimulate insulin in Diabetic Mice. November 14th is World Diabetes Day Insulin pump a viable option for young diabetics Unite for diabetes Take 10 seconds to share your support for a UN Resolution on diabetes

   
• JDRF "Trick or Treats" on Parliament Hill.
• The Toronto Star offers a number of wonderful articles on Diabetes for Diabetes Awareness month such as "Little Ones can suffer too" and "Chasing their dreams"
• Joslin Diabetes Center In Boston Establishes First Affiliate In Canada
• Caution emerges over inhalable insulin. Long-term effects, costs questioned
   
• Implanted glucose monitor patented a new use for a microchip implant

October 2006

• Physician Resistance Hinders Diabetics Use Of Cutting Edge Technology, Duke Researchers Find
• MicroIslet Comments On NIH Plan To Combat Type 1 Diabetes
• New Easy-To-Learn Blood Glucose Meter Focuses On The Essentials Of Testing
• FDA Issues Nationwide Alert On Counterfeit One Touch Basic/Profile And One Touch Ultra Blood Glucose Test Strips
• Plan Will Guide NIH Research in Type 1 Diabetes
• Duke researchers find physician resistance hinders diabetics use of cutting edge technology
• enGene, Inc. Adds Leading Diabetes and Gene Therapy Experts as Scientific Advisors
• Stopping insulin avoids drop in sugar from exercise
• BC Pharmacare under fire for lack of progress on chronic diseases
• Abbott’s Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor Approval Soon
• Abbott diabetes tool seen sparking marketing scrum
• Compound Found In Fish Damages Pancreatic Cells
• BD is going out of the meter business
• National Pharmaceutical Strategy
• 
  Diabetes patients, therapy undergo trial by fire
  Afflicted Canadians go to bat for method some call unproven

September 2006

• DIABETICS in Australia will have better access to treatment from October after the Federal Government decided to list two new drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
• Lord promises subsidies to low-income diabetes patients

Summer 2006

• Precision and Accuracy of Two Blood Glucose Meters: FreeStyle Flash Versus One Touch Ultra
• A Review of 20 Years' Experience With the Novopen Family of Insulin Injection Devices
• Night Eating Is Common in Diabetic Patients and May Increase Complications
• Disetronic Medical Systems Inc Announces a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Disetronic D-TRONplus Power Packs used in D-TRONplus Insulin Pumps
• Novo Nordisk Prevails in Sanofi-Aventis Challenge to Levemir - Up to 24 Hours Duration of Action and Other Claims Upheld
• Exubera Success May Hinge on Usability
   

June 2006

• A Bite and Bark That Saved a Life--Cellphone Chomp Called 911 for Beagle's Owner
• Costs pose hurdle for diabetes monitoring devices
• Fifth of diabetics skip critical test
• Pfizer says inhaled insulin safe over longer term
• Insulin pumps improve diabetes control
• Quilt for Life' Display Set For Washington D.C. Mall -- Children's Colorful and Emotional Quilts Show True Face of Diabetes
• Cal's Morrow taken fifth despite diabetes  Brandon Morrow, who has Type 1 diabetes, was the taken with the fifth pick overall by the Seattle Mariners.  He currently wears and insulin pump and checks his blood glucose levels between innings.
• Canadian Diabetes Association's First "Diabetes Day on the Hill"
• Living and rowing with diabetes
• Diabetics get high-tech help to track sugar
• Home schooling dispute leads to foster care
• Canadian Diabetes Association's First Diabetes Day on the Hill.      From House of Commons Debates June 5, 2006 (Page 30 from the House of Commons Transcripts)  DIABETES Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, today volunteers living with diabetes in communities across Canada have come to Parliament to raise awareness of the disparities in treatment and effects of living with this difficult illness. The facts are alarming: of the two million Canadians living with diabetes today, over 80% will die of heart disease or stroke. Diabetes dramatically increases a person's likelihood of kidney failure, blindness, nerve trauma and amputation. Canadians do not have equal access to prescription medications to treat this chronic disease. Some provinces restrict access to less than six of the 17 possible diabetes medications available in Canada today. In all our families, near or far, there are people with this disease. In my family it is my father who has been living with diabetes for many years. The time has come for every level of government in Canada to work together to improve and harmonize the drug plans to help these courageous Canadians who deserve our support.                                                                                             From the Senate Debates (page 4 from Senate Debates) --June 6, 2006  Hon. Marilyn Trenholme Counsell: Honourable senators, June 5, 2006, was the first ever Diabetes Day on the Hill. Volunteers living with diabetes, in communities across Canada, came to Ottawa to raise our awareness of the seriousness of diabetes.  Diabetes is a disease which directly causes over 5,000 deaths per year and contributes to about 25,000. In economic terms, diabetes costs Canadians more than $9 billion annually, including both direct costs and those stemming from premature death and lost productivity. Over 2 million Canadians have diabetes today and more than 3 million will be diagnosed by 2010. The incidence in diabetes among children under age 15 has tripled since 1971. Type 2 diabetes, which was once considered something one developed after the age of 45, is increasingly being diagnosed in those under 20. Data from the United States suggests a 10- to 30-fold increase in the number of children with type 2 diabetes over the past 10 years. It is an epidemic among Aboriginal peoples in Canada, with the national age-adjusted prevalence three to five times higher than that of the general population. Type 2 diabetes is beginning to emerge in Aboriginal children as young as five years of age. Honourable senators, it is no surprise that one in three children born in 2000 will develop diabetes at some point during their lifetime. Two risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes are being overweight and being physically inactive. In 2004, 26 per cent of Canadian children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 were overweight or obese, and 8 per cent were obese. In adolescents aged 12 to 17, the overweight-obesity rate of this age group more than doubled and the obesity rate tripled. For children aged 6 to 11 years and adolescents aged 12 to 17 years, the likelihood of being overweight or obese tends to rise as time spent watching TV, playing video games and using the computer increases. Each week 25 per cent of Canadian kids spend more time watching TV or playing video games than they spend in school. Research shows that 50 per cent of Canadian children are simply not active enough. Honourable senators, to prevent type 2 diabetes, the most important thing we can do for our children is to teach them that it is fun to live healthy and active lives. Honourable senators, each one of us can do something to help Canadian children and youth stay healthy, eat well and become
  more active. Diabetes is a lifelong illness. Our children and youth must have a good foundation for lifelong health. We must focus our actions on preventing diabetes because this is a priority for Canada and the rest of the World.

May 2006

• Don't use kids as pawns in turf war
• Return diabetic boy, brother to their parents, doctor says
• Brothers returned to parents
• "Arthur" will be lending its support to diabetes awareness as of May 17th in their "now a word from us kids" segment.  A segment about healthy eating and diabetes management featuring 11-year-old Corinne, a patient with type 1 diabetes at Joslin Diabetes Center will show blood glucose testing, insulin pumps, and healthy snacks for kids. The “Desert Island Dish” episode premieres nationwide on May 17, 2006, on PBS KIDS GO! and will repeat regularly as part of the Arthur schedule, including an encore on June 7. 
• In Canada Taken as if they're not yours....Quebec parents of a diabetic son who refuse to send him to an "unsafe" school lose him to the state
• Young diabetics not meeting diet recommendations
• Debate Over Inhaled Insulin  NICE recommends not using inhaled insulin as its  high cost versus injections and the risks to the lungs associated with the drug outweighs any published benefits.
• Adept Robotics Selected For Insulet's Diabetes Management System
• Disetronic Medical Systems, Inc. Announces a Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of All ACCU-CHEK™ Ultraflex Infusion Sets Contact: Joel Reuter 317-521-7431

April 2006

• Scientists Hold Out Hope for Diabetes Cure By Ed Edelson
• Top 10 Diabetes Breakthroughs of 2005

March 2006

• Geeky Long Island teen our 'Idol'
• Inhaling instead of injecting
• A Young Adults perspective on a life lived with Type 1 diabetes
• Insulet gets $50M injection in latest round
• Medtronic of Canada Has Launched the Paradigm Real Time Insulin Pump!  See it on our Products and Techology page!

• Irrational Exubera-nce for Pfizer?

February 2006

• Diabetic Brothers Beat Odds With Grit and Luck  Experts say that they know of no other childhood diabetic who has lived to be as old as Gerald (age 90yr), and no one has survived with the disease for as long as Robert (age age 88yr) almost 81 years has .

• Inhaled insulin expected to cost more

• FDA approves inhaled form of insulin
  Decision affecting millions offers biggest change in diabetes treatment in decades

• Stock Trading - FDA Approves Inhalable Insulin

January 2006

• First Inhaled Insulin Approved

• Diabetics on insulin waiting to inhale

• FDA Approves Inhaled Insulin

• Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) & Diabetes: How Low Can You Go?

• Recalls of blood glucose meters emphasize human factors design

• Pfizer spends $1.3bn for Exubera - a new inhaled insulin treatment for diabetes

• Pfizer to get full inhaled insulin rights

• Autopsy shows student died of diabetic

• Johnson & Johnson plans to expand its diabetes product line by acquiring insulin pump maker Animas.

• J&J to buy Animas for $518 million in cash

• Animas Shares Rise on Acquisition by J&J

• Diabetes patients lobby for special drug benefits

• Nova Scotians under the age of 65 with diabetes and no drug insurance are now able to register for the province's new diabetes assistance program, which begins Jan. 1.

• Seeking a cure

• Turning the health-care myth into reality 

• Diabetics warned to toe the line on foot care or lose limbs

• Alberta's diabetics paying more for treatment

• Diabetes association calls for catastrophic drug plan

• 60 Years living with Diabetes 

• It’s diabetes day  World Diabetes Day is November 14th 

• ACG: Colorectal Cancer More Common Among Diabetics

November 2005

• Canadian Gene Cure Foundation: Diagnosis of Rare Gene Mutation May Spare Certain Type 1 Diabetes Children Painful Insulin Injections The Canadian Gene Cure Foundation (CGCF) is pleased to award a grant of $65,000 to Dr. Constantin Polychronakos, a renowned McGill University endocrinologist.  

• ^{FDA has approved insulin detemir [rDNA origin] injection (Levemir, Novo Nordisk, Inc.)}

• ^{MUST READ Diabetes: Asia's silent killer by Paul Zimmet: Globally the WHO estimates the global diabetes population will grow to more than 200 million in 2010 and 330 million in 2025.}

• ^{Novo Nordisk Incorporated and FDA notified pharmacists of an initiative implemented to help prevent dispensing errors.The current packaging is now white with an orange band}

• ^{Novo Nordisk today announced that its newest recombinant human insulin product, Levemir, will be available on the U.S. market by next June.}

• ^{New diabetes drug not covered}

• ^{OmniPod Insulin Management System set to launch in US  An insulin delivery system with no tubing or infusion sites to change--just one "pod" and a handheld computer devise.} 

  October 2005

• Scientist labors to end painful needle ritual for diabetics

• Embryonic stem cells advance diabetes cure

• Diabetes is a major risk to the unborn

• DIOBEX RECEIVES FAST-TRACK STATUS FROM FDA FOR VLD-GLUCAGON.  Diobex looks to bring "very low dose Glucagon" to market. 

• MoMA showcases Penn State researcher's device.  Prototype under the skin glucose sensor will be showcased in October. 

• Animas launches the ezSet(TM) Infusion set The ezSet has been released to a limited market and is not currently available in Canada

• Current management of diabetic pregnancy. Intensive drug therapy plus self-monitoring diminished adverse obstetric outcomes in all types of diabetes. 

• Creator of blood glucose sensor dead at 86 years. 

• Hurricane Katrina relief: 

  The Children With Diabetes Foundation has partnered with dLife to help get diabetes supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina.  Go to http://www.cwdfoundation.org/KatrinaRelief.htm  to make an online, tax deductible donation.  The Children With Diabetes Foundation is run 100% by volunteers, so any and all money donated will go directly to supplies and shipping costs for those who need it.

August and September 2005

• Novo to gain by split  Investors feel that NovoNordisk will be better by splitting its main divisions into two entities. 

• "Touch of Kindness" Golf Tourney to benefit Small Boy

• Diabetes can be everyday struggle for some kids

• FDA advisers recommend approval of inhaled form of insulin

• Statement by the Honourable R. John Efford concerning his health and Type 1 diabetes

• Ranges of medicine needed for storm relief

• Ascent in Africa: Teens join Kilimanjaro expedition in support of juvenile diabetes research

• MannKind Takes Its Shots in Insulin Race

• Diabetes groups worry about looming lack of insulin options

• Can an individual crusader influence tax policy?

July 2005

• Novo Nordisk Launches GlucaGen® HypoKit™

• Alkermes and Lilly take inhaled insulin into Phase III

• Twice the Trouble From 'Double Diabetes'

• Eli Lilly will end its sale of 4 insulins

• Intensive therapy cuts diabetes problems

• Pharmaceutical producer Novo Nordisk has received US approval of its insulin analogue Levemir

• Stuffed and ready to serve — the 'Staff Sergeant Thompson bear'  New bear with diabetes is dressed in army fatigues and modeled after a real US soldier with diabetes! Proceeds to benefit the American Diabetes Association.

May and June 2005

• N.B. plan for free diabetes supplies lauded

• Super sniffer wonder dog' is more than a friend to girl with diabetes

• Dogs for Hypoglycemia detection

• Disability Tax Credit benefits Canadians with diabetes 
  Parents of children with diabetes to benefit: Canadian Diabetes 
  Association     
• Animas Announces Voluntary Recall of IR 1250 Pump, Increases Revenue Guidance

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