Dave, Author at BCDiabetes British Columbia Diabetes Care, Research, and Education Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:11:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.bcdiabetes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/favicon-150x150.png Dave, Author at BCDiabetes 32 32 There is no insulin pill…. yet. https://www.bcdiabetes.ca/there-is-no-insulin-pill-yet/ Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:11:07 +0000 https://www.bcdiabetes.ca/?p=1407 The search for a pill formulation of insulin has been long-standing.  Yesterday Novo Nordisk, the world’s biggest insulin manufacturer abandoned its efforts to make an oral form of insulin.  The obstacle was not technological it was price pressure. The pharmaceutical industry has figured out how to protect insulin from digestive juices in the stomach – […]

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