Diabetes Symptoms and Care

Older Treatment More Effective In Preserving Sight For Diabetes Patients

A promising new drug therapy used to treat abnormal swelling in the eye – a condition called diabetic macular edema – proved less effective than traditional laser treatments in a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study, published online in July in the journal [...]

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Study Finds Insulin Resistance Causes Gallstones

It has been known for more than 100 years that gallstones are more common in obese individuals. Now, researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have determined that insulin resistance is likely the reason why. “This is a very exciting discovery not only because we now have an answer to something that has been a puzzle [...]

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The Impact Of Insulin Injections On Diabetes Patients

The insulin injections have various types of impacts on people with diabetes, however not many discuss the impact and the problems with their doctors. The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) today announced results from a survey conducted by Harris Interactive highlighting communication between people with diabetes that require insulin injections and their healthcare providers. [...]

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Diet, Exercise, Culturally Sensitive Care Can Control Diabetes

A healthy diet and exercise program are part of the prescription for people with type 2 diabetes, but two new research reviews suggest they can also help to prevent the disease. A third review finds that patients from ethnic minorities do better with diabetes education that takes their language and culture into account. Lower fat [...]

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Food For Diabetes Patients: Weight Loss Helps

According to the Kaiser Permanente study, published online in Diabetes Care of the American Diabetes Association journal, losing weight soon after the diabetes diagnosis helps to better manage the disease and control it. Therefore, it is very important to keep a special diabetes diet and carefully choose the types of foods that the diabetes patient [...]

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Amylin’s Bad Byetta News: FDA Issues Warning

FDA issued warning on Amylin’s diabetes drug Byetta as the agency found that Byetta has a potential risk for pancreatitis. FDA says 2 patients have died. Zacks’s analyist Mark Vickery realizing the implications for Amylin’s stock owners immediate recommended to Sell the stock and avoid the name Amylin. You can already realize how serious is [...]

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Progress Made In NHS Diabetes Care

Diabetes care in the NHS is improving and focussing more on prevention, according to a report published by the Department of Health today. In line with the Government’s commitment to providing a preventative health service, the NHS is making particular progress with the following priorities in diabetes care: * Identifying diabetes earlier in people who [...]

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Research Finds Early Cause of Type 1 Diabetes

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine are shedding light on how type-1 diabetes begins. Doctors have known the disease is caused by an autoimmune attack on the pancreas, but the exact trigger of the attack has been unclear. Now, a new study in mice implicates the immune signal interferon-alpha as an early culprit [...]

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Young Type-2 Diabetic Men Suffer Low Testosterone Levels

Young men with type 2 diabetes have significantly low levels of testosterone, endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo have found — a condition that could have a critical effect on their quality of life and on their ability to father children. This study follows research published earlier by these scientists reporting that one-third of middle-aged [...]

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UN Says 14 November Is World Diabetes Day

World Diabetes Day – an official United Nations world day – will once again focus on children and adolescents with diabetes in 2008. The day is marked each year on 14 November and has been celebrated since 1991 when it was created by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Type [...]

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Potential diabetes treatment selectively kills autoimmune cells

In experiments using blood cells from human patients with diabetes and other autoimmune disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have confirmed the mechanism behind a potential new treatment for type 1 diabetes. A team led by Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Immunobiology Laboratory, showed that blocking a metabolic pathway regulating the immune [...]

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Hospital finds link between obesity, type 2 diabetes and neurodegeneration

New research from Rhode Island Hospital found that obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) can contribute to mild neurodegeneration with features common with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – the first study to show that obesity can cause neurodegeneration. The study appeared in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Volume 15:1 (September 2008) . In a study [...]

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