News Release Archive
- How Hot Weather Affects People With Diabetes
- IDDT Event 2025 – ‘Never Too Late To Learn’
- MHRA Press Release on weight loss drugs!
- Libre 2 will be discontinued from August 2025
- Celebrating Jenny Hirst MBE: A champion for people with diabetes
- Three insulin products by Novo Nordisk will be discontinued
- IDDT Website ALERT!
- Fasting and Diabetes
- Medicines and medical devices: Six tips for staying healthy and safe this festive season
- MHRA asks patients to report without delay any safety problem with their continuous glucose monitor or insulin pump
- Wockhardt Hypurin® Porcine Reusable Cartridge Pen Availability
- Diabetes and flu
- IDDT Event 2024 – ‘Living with Diabetes’
- Medicine supply notification for Tresiba Flextouch – Amended
- Fasting and Diabetes
- NICE recommends life changing technology is rolled out to people with type 1 diabetes
- Semaglutide for early onset Type 1 diabetes – but a very small study…
- Supplier of Hypurin Porcine Insulins in Germany
- IDDT Event 2023 – ‘Tips, Techniques and Trials’
- NHS rolls out world-first programme to transform diabetes care for under 40s ‘T2Day: Type 2 Diabetes in the Young’
- Medicine supply notification for Tresiba Flextouch
- An overhaul of Primary Care
- Sanofi to discontinue Insuman insulins over upcoming months
- Fasting and Diabetes
- Abbott Initiates Voluntary Recall For Certain FreeStyle Libre 2 Sensors in UK
- IDDT Conference ‘Changing Times’ 29 October 2022
- Free life-changing technology for people with Type 1 diabetes
- Metformin and reduced vitamin B12 levels: new advice for monitoring patients at risk
- Roche Accu-Chek Insight insulin pump with NovoRapid PumpCart insulin cartridges: alert following cases of insulin leakage
- Prescription Price Freezes in England!
- IDDT Event 2022 – ‘Changing Times’
- NICE update recommendations for continuous glucose monitoring
- March 28th 2022 – a call for Type 2 diabetes drugs
- Ukraine – Insulin and Diabetes Supplies Urgently Needed IDDT Appeal for Help
- July 2024 – Update from Ukraine
- November 2023 – Update from Ukraine
- May 2nd 2023 – Update from Ukraine
- January 23rd 2023 Update from Ukraine
- 2022 Donations to Ukraine
- July 10th 2022 Update from Ukraine
- June 14th 2022 Update from Ukraine
- May 6th 2022 Update from Ukraine
- April 25th 2022 Update – 79 boxes arrive in Ukraine from IDDT
- Update on supplies to Ukraine, March 23rd 2022
- IDDT’s update on insulin supplies to Ukraine, 13th March 2022
- First pre-filled glucagon pen, Tetris Pharma’s Ogluo®, now available in the UK for the treatment of severe hypoglycaemia
- New research breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes
- “Scotland to rollout diabetes test for Type 1 patients”
- First ever injection pen recycling pilot launched in UK pharmacies
- DVLA updated guide to insulin-treated diabetes and driving
- Diabetes and Tattoos
- Batch of metformin oral solution recalled by MHRA due to nitrosamine impurity
- NHS to roll out trials of the artificial pancreas for people with Type 1 diabetes
- Repaglinide supply disruption notice
- Reassurance on the safety of COVID-19 Vaccine. AstraZeneca Benefits still outweigh the risks despite possible link to rare blood clots with low blood platelets
- Ramadan 2021 and fasting
- Vitamin D and Covid 19
- NICE News
- COVID-19 Restrictions
- Welsh Government: Warning to parents
- ‘Clinically vulnerable’ and shielding
- Protection of insulin supplies by not allowing parallel exporting
- Exercise is important!
- Ramadan 2020 and fasting
- Coronavirus – advice for people living with diabetes – updated
- Would you like to improve your wellbeing and diabetes care?
- FreeStyle Libre sensors may be temporarily unavailable
- Latest on FreeStyle Libre NHS England press release
- Stress Awareness Week
- Update on Continuity of Medical Supplies
- Top 10 Tips for hot weather
- Medtronic recalling certain insulin pumps on cybersecurity issues
- Prime Minister praises the FreeStyle Libre
- Ramadan 2019 and fasting
- Warning! Be careful about completing your driving licence application online!
- If you shop on Amazon, here’s how you can help IDDT
- Medical Device Awareness Card Now Available
- DVLA Guidelines make it simpler for drivers with insulin treated diabetes
- A no deal Brexit could put lives at risk (updated)
- New Ulcer treatment could prevent 3,000 amputations a year
- FreeStyle Libre latest News!!!
- NHS Long-Term Plan
- FreeStyle Libre (updated)
- Pork insulin availability in the UK and Canada assured
- NHS to provide life changing glucose monitors for Type 1 Diabetes patients
- Leading experts slam current diabetes care in UK care homes – a Call to Action needed
- Roche announces urgent recall on certain Accu-Chek Aviva and Performa test strips
- Ramadan 2018 and fasting
- DVLA changes regulations
- Freestyle Libre available on the NHS!
- Medtronic recall specific lots of infusion sets with all models of Medtronic insulin pumps
- All Accu-Chek® Insight insulin pumps – risk of alarm failure
- WHO – long-acting analogues not an essential medicine
- Beef insulin discontinued
- Soft Drinks Warning!
- Driven to Despair
- Childhood Obesity Strategy failing our children
- Diabetes – What schools need to know
- DVLA – Good News!
- The National Diabetes Foot Care Audit (NDFA)
- Diabetes care criticised
- Motorists banned in error after faulty DVLA visual field test
- Too many children and young people with diabetes not getting the care they need
- National NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme
- InDependent Diabetes Trust: Young diabetics ‘get worse care’
- IDDT’s Position Statement – ‘pre-diabetes’
- MBE Is Bolt From The Blue For Charity Chair
- New insulin on the market – Insulin Degludec (Tresiba)
- Diabetes community urges more support for older people
- Warning to people with diabetes about dangerous herbal medicine
- In 1 week, 60 hospital patients with diabetes develop preventable complications – National Audit
- Passport for Diabetes in Care Settings
- Launch of Passport for Diabetes in Care Settings
- Type 2 Diabetes – Management & Medication
- Cost of insulin analogues
- Actos And The Risk Of Bladder Cancer – New Safety Warnings
- Actraphane – are patients really at the centre of care
- Marketing of insulin – a missed opportunity
- IDDT Launch Patient Hospital Passports
- Holiday Tips
- IDDT Launch Public Awareness Campaign
- IDDT’s Position Statement on DTCA
- In Sickness and in Health
- IDDT Triumphs in Australia
This section provides up-to-date news and views about treatments, research and latest developments. IDDT’s quarterly Newsletters and Type 2 and You, are available on line here so there’s something for everyone interested in diabetes. These publications also cover personal experiences and discuss ‘hot’ topics in the world of diabetes.
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- MHRA Press Release on weight loss drugs!
- Three insulin products by Novo Nordisk will be discontinued
- Supplier of Hypurin Porcine Insulins in Germany
- Sanofi to discontinue Insuman® insulins over upcoming months
- Prescription Price Freezes in England!
- June’s Newsletter and Type 2 & You
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