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  2. Edmonton protocol - Wikipedia

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    [A]bout 60 percent of transplant recipients achieved insulin independence—defined as being able to stop insulin injections for at least 14 days—during the year following transplantation. By the end of the second year, 50 percent of recipients were able to stop taking insulin for at least 14 days.

  3. US FDA panel votes against Novo Nordisk's weekly insulin in ...

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    Novo is aiming to be the first to hit the market with a weekly insulin product, offering an alternative for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who now depend on multiple daily injections.

  4. Intensive insulin therapy - Wikipedia

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    Basal insulin is provided as a once or twice daily injection of dose of a long-acting insulin. In an MDI regimen, long-acting insulins are preferred for basal use. An older insulin used for this purpose is ultralente, and beef ultralente in particular was considered for decades to be the gold standard of basal insulin.

  5. Insulin (medication) - Wikipedia

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    The advantage of NPH is its low cost, the fact that you can mix it with short-acting forms of insulin, thereby minimizing the number of injections that must be administered, and that the activity of NPH will peak 4–6 hours after administration, allowing a bedtime dose to balance the tendency of glucose to rise with the dawn, along with a ...

  6. Health Rounds: Once-weekly insulin from Eli Lilly appears ...

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    Eli Lilly’s experimental insulin that is injected just once a week is as effective as daily insulin injections for maintaining blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes ...

  7. Weekly Insulin Shots for Type 2 Diabetes May Be as ... - AOL

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    New research offers an alternative to daily insulin shots for the 8 million people in the United States with type 2 diabetes. Eli Lilly’s once-weekly insulin injection is just as effective as ...

  8. Conventional insulin therapy - Wikipedia

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    Conventional insulin therapy is characterized by: Insulin injections of a mixture of regular (or rapid) and intermediate acting insulin are performed two times a day, or to improve overnight glucose, mixed in the morning to cover breakfast and lunch, but with regular (or rapid) acting insulin alone for dinner and intermediate acting insulin at bedtime (instead of being mixed in at dinner).

  9. Islet cell transplantation - Wikipedia

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    A study from 2005 showed that islet transplantation has progressed to the point that 58% of the people were insulin independent one year after the operation. [3] A review published 2016 reported a 50 – 70% rate of insulin independence after five years, in five studies from leading transplant centers published 2005 – 2012. [4]