Novo Nordisk's decision has been criticized by some patients with Type 1 diabetes who prefer Levemir over other long-acting "basal" insulins such as Sanofi's Lantus and Novo Nordisk's Tresiba.

52-week QWINT-1 enrolled adults with type 2 diabetes who were using basal insulin for the first time. 78-week QWINT-3 enrolled those currently treated with basal insulin. QWINT-1 met the main goal ...

Once-weekly basal insulin combined with an intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitor reduced HbA1c and improved time ...

Novo Nordisk’s bid to provide a once-weekly basal insulin product for people with diabetes, reducing the number of injections needed, has hit a major hurdle in the US. The FDA sent the Danish ...

compared the efficacy and safety of a basal-bolus insulin regimen with that of sliding-scale regular insulin (SSI) in hospitalized general medical patients with type 2 diabetes. The prospective ...

Inclusion of basal insulin glargine in multiple daily injection (MDI) regimens decreases glycemic variability in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), according to US researchers.

In most trials, patients were randomized to receive insulin on three different dosing schedules: basal insulin twice daily before breakfast and at bedtime, basal insulin at 12-hour intervals ...

Novo Nordisk said that if approved for use, insulin icodec would reduce the number of basal insulin injections needed per year for type 2 diabetics from 365 to 52, a significant reduction in ...

insulin is used around mealtimes to give a small amount of insulin every few minutes, so a separate basal insulin injection isn't needed. An insulin pump provides your body with a small amount of ...

Inhaled insulin is a drug you breathe into your lungs to help control your blood sugar and diabetes. It comes in the form of an inhaler. "Inhaled insulin comes as a powder and has a component that ...

achieving a control comparable to that of daily basal insulin. Patients using this drug “maintained adequate glycemic levels throughout the week with a single injection,” the laboratory stressed.