20 Nov 2009
| by Emma Baines
Type-2 diabetes study reports on use of metformin with insulin in non-obese patients....on insulin, Scandinavian research suggests. The study showed that both metformin and the insulin secretagogue repaglinide were safe and effective when combined with insulin treatment in this patient group ...
hypoglycaemic agents, or an HbA1c of greater than 9.5 per cent despite taking insulin therapy. Patients were ...
12 Mar 2010
Improvements to the care of insulin-treated patients in nursing and residential homes have been set...home on every shift who knows how to deal with a patient who may be using insulin and is experiencing a ...
23 Nov 2007
Insulin pump therapy has been approved for patients with type-1 diabetes, according to preliminary...for continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII). Under-11s can be given the treatment if multiple-dose insulin (MDI) therapy is inappropriate. Older patients are eligible for CSII if they find it impossible ...
hypoglycaemic events, says NICE. CSII uses an external pump to continuously deliver insulin to the patient ...
07 Apr 2006
Insulin treatment in type-2 diabetes will increasingly be started by GP practices, Jane Hill, diabetes nurse consultant at East Birmingham PCT, told the Diabetes UK meeting. She said that a growing ...
, and Payment by Results would all boost primary care prescribing of insulin. One local enhanced service in East ...
09 May 2012
| by Dr Lizzie Croton
Metformin and insulin in type 2 diabetes BMJ 2012; 344: e1771 This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the benefits and harms of metformin and insulin versus insulin alone ...
and insulin versus insulin alone did not significantly affect all-cause mortality (RR 1.30 95% CI 0 ...
08 Dec 2011
| by Dr Paula Hensler
Insulin therapy is often required, but this effective therapy can be improved. By Dr Paula Hensler...of management are often debated.
Eventually most patients with type-2 diabetes require insulin to achieve ...
specifically at diabetes care in primary care. They found that while insulin is the most effective treatment in type-2 diabetes, its use remains challenging and time consuming, especially at the time of insulin ...
06 Apr 2011
| by Stephen Robinson
GPs wishing to offer insulin pump therapy (IPT) to patients with type-2 diabetes face a struggle...larger scale roll-out, he added.
NICE recommends continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, known as an insulin pump, for adults and children over 11 years. They must have either failed to reduce HbA1c levels ...
devices combine IPT with continuous glucose monitoring to form closed loop insulin delivery systems ...
10 Jul 2009
| by Sanjay Tanday
Diabetes - European Medicines Agency to investigate after studies link insulin glargine...The European Medicines Agency is to investigate a possible link between insulin glargine (Lantus ...
was a German study of 127,031 insulin-treated patients who used insulin glargine. The researchers found that out of every 100 people who used insulin glargine over an average of about one and a half ...
07 Nov 2008
| by Tom Moberly
Insulin resistance in diabetes and other metabolic disorders could be treated by a naturally occurring molecule with insulin-like effects, studies by French researchers suggest. The mechanisms ...
that regulate insulin are known to be closely related, but researchers had not previously looked at how apelin ...
01 Dec 2007
Skin problems are common in patients who inject insulin. By Pat Miles, Dr David Kerr and Dr Tristan...therapy often uses intensive insulin regimens to achieve tight control of blood glucose levels and reduce the long-term risk of complications associated with the condition. Unfortunately, insulin therapy can ...
of insulin is generally well tolerated, with most patients experiencing no serious problems ...