Good news for diabetics
Hi Everyone! I'm Heather DeMarco at the business desk and today I'd like to end this very hectic week on a high note.
I came across a very interesting article submitted to us by our research team and I just feel that millions of diabetics can stand to benefit greatly. The diabetics market is practically exploding both here at home and globally and our government along with several other global governments are at their wit's end re how to provide the products, services, and info that these millions of persons are literally screaming for.
There are hundreds of thousands of very lucrative niche opportunities for those of you who are interested in starting up your own business in markets that are safe, real, and fast growing. The market of diabetic consumers are all these plus so much more and you should read Untapped Wealth Discovered to learn more. Click on the Untapped Wealth Discovered book link to learn more.
In the meantime, I hope you find the article below of interest and I hope you have a great weekend.
Inhaled insulin provides diabetics with an alternative to injections
By Wendy Rigby
MySanAntonio.com, TX, October 19, 2006
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
Some South Texas diabetics are embracing a new kind of insulin delivery
system to help manage their disease. It doesn't involve needles, and
patients say it's making their lives a lot easier.
William Sickler has coped with type one diabetes for the last 28 years. The
disease left him blind in 1997, but this year, he's been able to change his
routine of five shots of insulin a day.
"I've been waiting for something like this, an alternative to shots for some
time," Sickler said.
The alternative is an inhaled insulin device called Exubera, made by Pfizer
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year. A small
blister pack of fine-powder insulin is inserted into the tube.
The patient inhales it deeply into the lungs three times a day before meals.
"It took a long time to develop this. It has to be in a particle size
that'll deliver it to the part of the lung that will allow absorption," said
Dr. Mark Kipnes, an endocrinologist at the Diabetes & Glandular Disease
Clinic.
Patients have to take a pulmonary function test to make sure they can take
the drug this way, and those who smoke or have asthma or lung disease may
not qualify. However, for those patients who are fearful or tired of
injections like Sickler, it's a great invention.
"I've been using it about a month and it's been working wonderfully. My
blood sugars are far better than they have been in the past. I just feel
better," Sickler said.
Kipnes, who has been helping to test inhaled insulin with his patients for
many years, says it's a positive breakthrough in diabetes control.
"It's a nice alternative, and some patients are much more reluctant to take
injections. Some patients will never consider an injection, in spite of our
urging. And they'll allow this as an alternative," he said.
Several other drug companies have version of inhaled insulin that will come
on the market soon.
For more information about Exubera and on-going studies involving inhaled
insulin, contact the Diabetes & Glandular Disease Clinic in San Antonio at
(210) 615-5555. You can also visit
www.dgdclinic.com
or
www.exubera.com
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA101906.medical.KENS.54ec0
c7c.html
By Wendy Rigby
MySanAntonio.com, TX, October 19, 2006
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
Some South Texas diabetics are embracing a new kind of insulin delivery
system to help manage their disease. It doesn't involve needles, and
patients say it's making their lives a lot easier.
William Sickler has coped with type one diabetes for the last 28 years. The
disease left him blind in 1997, but this year, he's been able to change his
routine of five shots of insulin a day.
"I've been waiting for something like this, an alternative to shots for some
time," Sickler said.
The alternative is an inhaled insulin device called Exubera, made by Pfizer
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year. A small
blister pack of fine-powder insulin is inserted into the tube.
The patient inhales it deeply into the lungs three times a day before meals.
"It took a long time to develop this. It has to be in a particle size
that'll deliver it to the part of the lung that will allow absorption," said
Dr. Mark Kipnes, an endocrinologist at the Diabetes & Glandular Disease
Clinic.
Patients have to take a pulmonary function test to make sure they can take
the drug this way, and those who smoke or have asthma or lung disease may
not qualify. However, for those patients who are fearful or tired of
injections like Sickler, it's a great invention.
"I've been using it about a month and it's been working wonderfully. My
blood sugars are far better than they have been in the past. I just feel
better," Sickler said.
Kipnes, who has been helping to test inhaled insulin with his patients for
many years, says it's a positive breakthrough in diabetes control.
"It's a nice alternative, and some patients are much more reluctant to take
injections. Some patients will never consider an injection, in spite of our
urging. And they'll allow this as an alternative," he said.
Several other drug companies have version of inhaled insulin that will come
on the market soon.
For more information about Exubera and on-going studies involving inhaled
insulin, contact the Diabetes & Glandular Disease Clinic in San Antonio at
(210) 615-5555. You can also visit
www.dgdclinic.com
or
www.exubera.com
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA101906.medical.KENS.54ec0
c7c.html
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