Insulin Nation

JUNE 30, 2014

'There are times when it’s not easy being a spokesperson, like when you have to stand at a podium and neither confirm nor deny the latest political scandal. And then there are times when being a spokesman is more fun, like when the insulin pump company you represent was just involved in successful trials of a closed-loop artificial pancreas system. Steve Sabicer is experiencing the latter as spokesman for Tandem, the relatively new insulin pump company on the block.

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Chilmark Research

JULY 1, 2014

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. One out of four adults has two or more chronic diseases. One in three children is overweight or obese. Projections are that by 2050, one third of Americans will have diabetes. These are America’s proverbial ball and chain: lifestyle-driven afflictions that are driving our healthcare spending through the roof, but which can be treated early, mitigated, and in some cases prevented altogether.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 2, 2014

'D-Parents love to give their children with Type 1 diabetes examples of adults with Type 1 who are doing great things. It’s even better when they can find examples of children with Type 1 diabetes doing amazing stuff; there’s nothing like a peer to motivate you. For “The Sugar Free Shawn Show”, Shawn Shepheard recently profiled Anwar Boutahar, an eight-year-old with Type 1 diabetes who is clearly an overachiever.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 30, 2014

'The symbolic champagne bottles must have popped at Mannkind corporate headquarters on a Friday in late June; after years wandering in the regulatory wilderness, its product, Afrezza, received FDA approval. It has been a long and daunting process to get this product to market, with many regulatory hurdles, but the company persevered and its inhalable insulin product and Dreamboat inhaler now can hit the open market.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 2, 2014

'Endos Wanted. Wait times to see an endocrinologist might grow in the next decade, according to researchers from the Endocrine Society. In the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism , researchers predict there will be a shortage of endocrinologists for the next decade, that is unless the number of new endocrinologists grows by 14% every year.

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