Insulin is a hormone that helps your body move sugar from the blood into your tissues. When you have diabetes, your body may not make or use insulin the right way, so you may need to take insulin ...

To ensure proper absorption and prevent skin issues like lipohypertrophy, it’s important to rotate insulin injection sites regularly, keeping about an inch between each site. When injecting insulin, ...

July 8, 2011 (UPDATED July 11, 2011) — Using jet injection of insulin instead of conventional pen devices can halve the time required to reach appropriate glucose-lowering effects, according to a ...

People with type I diabetes have to inject themselves multiple times a day with manufactured insulin to maintain healthy levels of the hormone, as their bodies do not naturally produce enough. The ...

A new reusable insulin injector pen combined with a smartphone app that helps insulin-dependent diabetes patients calculate their doses and keeps track of injection data is now available in the United ...