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Diabetes is Bad
In a bid to make me throw up and hate him forever Jens Eckels has showered me with images of people with diabetic ulcers. What’s a “diabetic ulcer”? It’s this: and yes, just incase you are curious (or NOT throwing up blood) that is the fatty tissue on his foot dissolving away into an open-body sore. Maybe that [...]
Continue reading...Evel Knievel Dies at 69 (Diabetes)
Friday, November 30, 2007
Well hell… Jens Eckels just sent in news that world-renound stunt man from our past, Evel Knievel, died at age 69 from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis. Reports state that in 1999 Knievel underwent a liver transplant after almost dying from Hepatitis C, which was likely caused from an earlier blood transfusion that was necessary after [...]
Continue reading...Exubera: $2.8 Billion Flop, Pfizer Quits
Saturday, October 20, 2007
BusinessWeek is reporting that Pfizer has given up trying to make Exubera (inhalable insulin) profitable and walked away from the product to the tune of $2.8 billion dollars; handing it back to the original creators, Nektar Therapeutics. Not surprisingly, the oversight that made Exubera such a huge flop (projected to revolutionize the insulin industry) is [...]
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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