Diabetes News Hound

The maker of wrist-watch-like sugar monitor Diabetes Sentry is having trouble financing its next round of production, despite having up to 400 pending orders (more…)

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a device that monitors glucose using light pulses rather than finger pricks. (more…)

Giant Eagle is among the growing number of supermarkets and pharmacies providing free common Type 2 diabetes drugs to customers (more…)

DiabetesMine, a blog for people with diabetes with a slant towards technology, announced the winners of its 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. The annual web-based competition, which is open to anyone, aims to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools to improve the lives of people with diabetes. (more…)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is examining data from two clinical trials to determine whether Benicar, a blood pressure medicine, increases the risk of heart-related deaths in Type 2 diabetic patients (more…)

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned DexCom, maker of blood sugar monitoring equipment that require inserting wires in the abdomen, that it is not adequately warning users that its devices sometimes leave wire splinters under the skin of some users (more…)

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic say they have found a way to keep insulin acting in the body longer, potentially opening the gates for new treatments for diabetes (more…)

MannKind, the maker of a new, more potent form of inhalable insulin, says clinical data shows the product is safe to the lungs (more…)