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Active insulin, or how insulin acts in your body after the injection
Have you ever taken more insulin to correct stubborn hyperglycemia, only to unexpectedly plunge into hypoglycemia two hours later? If so, it might be that...
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Why and How Does Heat Impact Diabetes?
Some aspects of how temperature affects diabetes management are known in part, but further studies are necessary to know precisely what impact it has. Discover...
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Fact sheet - Insulin modes of action
Understand how insulins work
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Fact sheet - Hybrid closed-loop systems characteristics
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Fact sheet - Insulin pump comparison table
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Omnipod 5: first tubeless automated insulin delivery system in Canada!
Written in April 2024 – Last updated in April 2025 It has now been exactly one year since Health Canada approved the first tubeless “artificial...
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Technologies and treatments for type 1 diabetes: What’s new for 2025?
2024 ended with the much-anticipated announcement for Canadian users of the Tandem t:slim X2 pump: The Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) is finally compatible...
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Discontinuation of certain types of insulin
Novo Nordisk announced, in early October 2024, that it would soon cease the production and marketing of some products—including several types of insulin—from its diabetes...
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New once-weekly basal insulin green-lighted by Health Canada
Last March, Canada became the very first country to authorize a once-weekly “super slow” basal insulin. Novo Nordisk’s icodec insulin, which will soon be available...
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