FDA Wants More Info on New Pen Delivery for Amylin’s Bydureon Amylin said it will comply with the FDA’s request for “incremental device-related data” and hopes to have the pen-delivery formulation of Bydureon on the market by 2013. 

The CeQur Device  CeQur is a simple, discrete wearable insulin delivery device that provides freedom from multiple daily injections by the push of a button. The CeQur insulin infuser includes a disposable insulin reservoir that attaches to a reusable electronic messenger. The device easily attaches to the patient’s abdominal area …

Four basic tastes were thought to exist (sweet, sour, salty and bitter) and in 2002, receptors were confirmed for “umami” (first proposed by a Japanese chemist in 1908 and described as meatiness or savoriness) which was accepted as a fifth. But could fat be a sixth taste? Studies are increasingly …

Physical activity seems a nearly sure way to prevent obesity in white adolescent girls, but does not have the same effect on African American girls, researchers say. In a dispiriting finding for African American girls and women, a new study finds that while engaging in high levels of physical activity …

There won’t be any more candy, sugary cereal or fast food on TV with the morning cartoons. The Walt Disney Co. became the first major media company to ban ads for junk food on its television channels, radio stations, and websites, hoping to stop kids from eating badly by taking …

Newly created registry includes 25,000 people of all ages. What they found was that most type 1’s are…. 

The prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 increased among young people substantially over the past decade. Researchers also found that complications such as nerve damage are…

Can low-dose aspirin prevent nonvascular — including cancer — deaths?… 

Patients with type 2 diabetes have a 20 percent increased risk of developing blood cancers, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma…. 

In a multicenter, prospective cohort study of 22 adults with lower-extremity ulcers, they found that, diabetic lower-extremity wound response to hyperbaric oxygen treatment was unaffected by pretreatment glycemic control….