For a family of four, that’s $40,560. Earlier this month, the Department of Job and Family Services adjusted that, stepping down food stamp benefits along a sliding scale until a family is making 200% ...

Earlier this year, the drugmaker reported shortages of NovoLog insulin. Patients with Type 1 diabetes must take insulin to regulate their blood sugar because their bodies do not produce insulin.

Life with diabetes usually includes many injections of the blood sugar–controlling hormone insulin. Recent research investigating a once-weekly shot finds it might help lessen the burden a bit ...

Objective: To compare traditional sliding scale (SS) with a tight glycemic control ... was compared with those treated with TC (n = 210). Patients on SS insulin received a traditional SS regimen ...

SS patients who received oral hypoglycemics, insulin aspart mix, insulin detemir, insulin glargine, insulin glulisine, insulin NPH, or insulin 70/30; or TC patients who received oral hypoglycemics ...