[Diabetes-talk] Inhaled Insulin?

[Mike Freeman]

Exubera was pulled. However, I recently read that a company in India has 
out an oral insulin available there. Perhaps the university here is 
trying it out.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Inhaled Insulin?


I don't know if that is an old study it was out on the market I think 
last
year or it could be 2 years ago, it was pulled. I don't remember why. 
Mike
or Ed do you remember.

Cheryl Echevarria
Treasurer
National Federation of the Blind Greater Long Island Chapter.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "catdancing" <catdancing at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Inhaled Insulin?


> Hi All,
> has anyone on here ever done any research studies or used  inhaled
> insulin?
> i live near Washington universtity in St. Louis Mo and they are 
> payinng
> $1000 for a 25 week study on inhaled insulin in type 1 diabetics.
> i wanted to know if anyonr on here has ever used inhaled insulin does 
> it
> work?
> please let me know.
> if u are in the area and want to be included in the study let me know 
> that
> as well
> Debbie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ed Bryant" <ebryant at socket.net>
> To: "Diabetes Talk" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:11 PM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] A Daughter's Story
>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >    You may know we are working on past Voice editions which are not 
> > yet
> > on
> > our website.  The following article is from Vol. 9 no. 4, Fall 1994.
> >    I wonder how many of us can relate to this story?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ed Bryant
> >
> > A daughter's story
> >
> >
> >
> > Many people have known the agony of watching a family member waste 
> > away
> > from an incurable disease such as cancer.  Many times all even the
> > doctors
> > can do is try to make the sufferer comfortable. Everyone tries to 
> > help.
> > The family draws together in this time of pain.
> > What happens when it is one of your own stricken, and you are blind?
> > When
> > your own family hasn't learned that blindness is not synonymous with
> > inability?  We know education is critical, and stories like the
> > following
> > remind us why.                                      Olivia 
> > Ostergaard,
> > Treasurer of the National Federation of the Blind of California
> > Diabetics
> > Chapter, lived through such a situation.  Although she had been 
> > living
> > independently for years, her own family, believing that "a blind 
> > person
> > couldn't handle it anyway," would not allow her to help care for her
> > diabetic mother, whose cancer had become terminal.
> > There is no good reason to bar any capable person from caring for a
> > stricken loved one.  In a time of such agony, the expression of 
> > ancient
> > prejudices about the blind compounds the pain.   "Imagine not being
> > allowed to cook a simple soup, because someone was afraid you'd burn 
> > it!
> > Imagine total strangers invading your territory, when you should be 
> > able
> > to take charge of the situation..." says Ostergaard.
> > When Olivia's younger (sighted) brother was given power of attorney 
> > over
> > their mother's affairs, Olivia felt left out and abandoned.  As she
> > states:                         "When we went with mother to the 
> > doctor,
> > my brother asked if she was terminal.  The doctor denied it, and 
> > ordered
> > more tests.  I privately protested, because my brother w!
> > asn't se
> > eing what I was seeing.  He was still living in his fantasy that our
> > mother was going to be all right.  I knew better.  I knew just by 
> > the
> > way
> > she was acting.  Her thinking wasn't clear, sometimes.  My brother
> > wouldn't listen to me.  I was his blind sister, "who didn't know
> > anything".
> > Four months later Olivia and her brother lost their mother to 
> > terminal
> > cancer.  Their agony needs no reinforcement here--but a simple point
> > needs
> > making:  Blind folks can handle adversity!  In such a situation, the
> > burden can be eased by allowing ALL family members to carry their 
> > share
> > of
> > it.   Knowledge is power.
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