Using a glass vial and needle is one of the most common ways of taking insulin. It may help you avoid the additional costs tied to prefilled insulin pens or expensive diabetes pump devices.

There are currently four main ways people can administer insulin: syringes, pens, pumps, and inhalers. How a person takes insulin can vary depending on their lifestyle, sugar levels, and what they ...

Remove the plastic cap from the insulin bottle ... hold the barrel of the syringe (with the needle end down) like a pen, being careful not to put your finger on the plunger.

Study design. This prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel-group study compared the use of pen devices with conventional vials and syringes for the administration of insulin in hospitalized ...

The usual ways to do this are to use traditional insulin shots and insulin pens. Both use needles. Instead of a needle, a jet insulin injector uses a high-pressure blast of air or a spring to ...

The Swiss diabetes hardware company Ypsomed is selling off its insulin pen needle and blood sugar monitoring operations, as it turns its attention toward its drug autoinjectors and digital insulin ...