By Shreoshree Chakrabarty: For individuals managing diabetes, insulin must be administered into the subcutaneous tissue—the layer of fat located between the skin and muscle. This tissue, also called ...

People with type I diabetes have to inject themselves multiple times a day with manufactured insulin to maintain healthy levels of the hormone, as their bodies do not naturally produce enough. The ...

An international expert panel has recently released a comprehensive set of recommendations for optimal insulin injection techniques and equipment. The group, called the Forum for Injection Technique ...

Self-mixing insulin requires a person to inject themselves with two types of insulin in one injection. A person can mix and inject insulin using a syringe. Insulin is a hormone that people use to ...

For over a century, scientists have chased the dream of insulin pills, but the digestive system kept destroying the drug ...

A century ago, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Children diagnosed rarely survived more than a year or two, wasting away as their bodies starved despite food. Then, in 1921, in a modest lab in ...

Researchers compared the efficacy of once-weekly and once-daily insulin treatments for type 2 diabetes. They found that the once-weekly treatment icodec was more effective in lowering blood sugar ...