Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said on Monday it was halting development of its AERx inhaled insulin product and will lay off most of the approximately 300 company employees working on the product.

Generex Biotechnology Corporation announces it will begin marketing their Oral-lyn Insulin, which gets absorbed through the inner lining of the mouth.

Patients with diabetes fare better in family practices that employ a nurse practitioner than in practices with a physician’s assistant or those without a mid-level provider, investigators found.

A compound formed during insulin production and once dismissed as irrelevant in diabetes may be a key to preventing the complications that make type 1 diabetessuch a serious disease.

Statins — the best-selling class of cholesterol-fighting drugs — should be considered as standard therapy for all diabetics, apart from children and pregnant women, results saw a 10% drop in death and a 21% drop in strokes and heart attacks.

A researcher at the University of Virginia Health System is demonstrating why so many people with diabetes may have heart disease.

Eli Lilly and Company announced that the FDA has approved Cialis(R) (tadalafil) for once daily use (2.5 mg and 5 mg), an oral medication taken once per day to treat erectile dysfunction (ED). When Cialis for once daily use is taken daily, men can attempt sexual activity at anytime between …

Transplantation of insulin-producing islet cells from human donors or cadavers, an investigational approach to long-term diabetes treatment, is fraught with difficulties. San Diego-based MicroIslet, Inc. believes that transplantation of encapsulated islets from pigs may be the answer.

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Researchers in Israel report that vitamin E supplements could offer an inexpensive way to significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and related deaths for the 40% of Type 2 diabetics who carry a particular version of a gene called haptoglobin (Hp) 2-2.