News for Week #26 2005

FDA Warns Against Supplement
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON -- The government is warning consumers not to take a Chinese dietary supplement that contains a diabetes drug that could cause life-threatening ...

Murder trial delayed so defense can question witnesses
WOI - West Des Moines,IA,USA
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa The murder trial of a woman charged with giving her husband an overdose of insulin has been delayed to August. ...

Testimony may show murder motive
The Grand Rapids Press - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
ROCKFORD -- The night her husband suffered an insulin overdose, Bonnie Savoy showed little concern for him as he gasped for air, a family friend testified. ...

Complete Care Medical, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Diabetes ...
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(Pink Sheets:CCMI) is pleased to announce its acquisition of Diabetes Gold, Inc., a high growth diabetes service company located in Houston, Texas. ...

Supply scare for juvenile diabetic lifeline
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
... then. Mother and diabetic daughter now do not have a source of income. At least the foundation takes care of their medical need. ...

Scientists Succeed in Developing Insulin-Secreting Cells
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
Korean medical doctors, led by a Seoul National University professor, have succeeded in developing cells that produce insulin by using embryonic stem cells. ...

Technosphere&red; Insulin Enters into Phase 3 Safety Trial
Medgadget.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
MannKind Corporation has announced yesterday that it has initiated enrollment of patients in phase 3 safety trial of inhaled Technosphere&red; Insulin (TI) in ...

Burning energy and its impact on health during exercise can be of ...
MedIndia - India
... They had prepared measurements of insulin action and glucose metabolism at the start of the program and then again after it were done. ...

Robert Rizza, MD, of Rochester MN, Elected President, American ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Diabetes is a serious disease that affects the body's ability to produce or respond properly to insulin, a hormone that allows blood sugar to enter the cells ...

Korea Advances One Step Further to Stem Cell Therapy
Korea Times - Seoul,South Korea
... The team, headed by Seoul National University professor Moon Shin-yong, said yesterday that it developed human embryonic stem cells into insulin-secreting cells ...

Drop-in-drop discovery
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Specifically, he was trying to overcome immune rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cells, which regulate insulin in the body and can aid diabetics who ...

Aerobic exercise helps find genetic regions linked to prediabetes
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... Prediabetes is characterized by the body's elevated resistance to insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose levels and energy storage. ...

Generex Biotechnology to Present Clinical Trial Results at The ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Oral-lyn(TM) in 10 Type-1 Diabetic Subjects Receiving Baseline Glargine Insulin Therapy" (co-authored with M. Guevara and J. Saavedra), will be presented as a ...

Nearly half of all diabetic patients in Spore suffer kidney ...
Channel News Asia - Singapore
By Rita Zahara, Channel NewsAsia. SINGAPORE : Nearly half of all diabetics in Singapore suffer from kidney failure. And what's worrying ...

Drug boosts testosterone in diabetic men
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
Diabetic men with low testosterone can boost levels of the male hormone as well as control their blood sugar on a drug called rosiglitazone. ...

Company Eyes Former Bass Shoe Plant
WLBZ-TV - Bangor,ME,USA
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) -- New England Orthotic and Diabetic Shoe Manufacturing Company would employ 20 people by the end of next year and more employees would ...

New drug aids in insulin production
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
An experimental treatment has shown promise in helping certain diabetics retain some ability to make insulin, potentially lessening their need for shots of the ...

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Short-Acting Insulin ...
Archives of Internal Medecine - USA
... This article compares the effect of treatment with short-acting insulin (SAI) analogues vs regular insulin on glycemic control, hypoglycemic episodes, quality ...

Diabetic women's heart-disease risk higher
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Insulin seen possible diabetes trigger (May 12, 2005) -- Insulin, the hormone that helps utilize sugar, may be the actual cause of type 1 diabetes, scientists ...

Gene trait may increase diabetes risk
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Insulin glargine helpful in diabetes (June 15, 2005) -- A Canadian study has said type 2 diabetes patients can achieve target blood sugar levels faster than ...

Shamokin man believes many diabetics aren't properly educated ...
Shamokin News Item - Shamokin,PA,USA
... Mace, a diabetic himself, is already doing what he can to educate those with the disease as an active member of the diabetes support group at Shamokin Area ...

Psychiatric Illnesses Common in Children with Newly Diagnosed Type ...
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
... "Obese children with neuropsychiatric conditions should be screened for diabetes, and children with insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes should be screened ...

More undergo NHS sight tests
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
New figures out today show there was an increase of almost 6000 people, who have diabetes, going for NHS tests. Across Scotland ...

Joslin Diabetes Center announces new national Joslin Vision ...
Medical News Today - UK
Joslin Diabetes Center has launched a new affiliation program designed to bring Joslin's world-class vision resources to local communities across the United ...

Solving the diabetes puzzle that baffled the world
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... A medical breakthrough so historic and extraordinary that it has been hailed as the most important development in diabetes research since Canadian doctors ...

Water Pills Help Patients With Diabetes
Ivanhoe - USA
... than newer and more costly medicines in the treatment of high blood pressure and the prevention of some forms of heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes. ...

Treatment of diabetes aid to birth
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Professor David Simmons of the Waikato Clinical School said Australian research was the first to show that aggressive treatment of diabetes in pregnancy was ...

Saturated fats combined with genetic trait implicated in ...
Medical News Today - UK
... has discovered an additional 2 million Canadians who have a high fat diet or are overweight may be at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes if they ...

Pancreas transplant for diabetes improves kidneys
Reuters.uk - UK
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with type 1 diabetes often develop kidney failure and, when it's available, a combined kidney and pancreas transplant offers ...

Pilot Study for HPB-84 Shows Positive Results for Diabetes ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
HUTCHINSON, Kan., June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patients participating in a 12-week pilot study for the Type II diabetes supplement HPB-84 successfully ...
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New diabetes drugs wont faze Sanofi
CNN - USA
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Sanofi-Aventis' diabetes drug Lantus has flourished in the lucrative industry for insulin products, and according to analysts, it will ...

Diabetes in children may be scary, but it is controllable
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) - Gilroy,CA,USA
... She had developed a condition known as Type I diabetes, which would require her to keep an eye on her blood sugar levels and inject insulin to control them for ...

Burning Or Tingling Feet May be Warning of Pre-diabetes
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise -- Adult onset, or type 2 diabetes, is a growing problem in the United States. Researchers estimate that about 10 percent ...

Drug for diabetes shows promise
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... Nevertheless, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which paid for the study, considered the results encouraging enough to plan future large-scale studies ...

STUDY SUGGESTS CHILDREN WITH NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASE MAY BE AT ...
Newsinferno.com - Great Neck,NY,USA
A study of 237 children with type 2 diabetes done at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and published in the June issue of Pediatric Diabetes, strongly ...

Gestational Diabetes: Treatment seems to reduce newborn ...
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
THE QUESTION Women who develop diabetes while pregnant face a number of uncertainties. ... Does treating the diabetes change these risks? ...

Helping preserve sight of people with diabetes
ic Wales - Cardiff,UK
GREATER numbers of people in Wales are being diagnosed with diabetes, a condition that carries with it an increased risk of sight problems. ...

10 Best Treats For People With Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By Susan Burke MS, RD, LD/N, CDE. Diabetes is not caused by eating sugar, and if you have diabetes it doesn't mean that you can never eat sugar again. ...

Italian men just a bunch of softies
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Children with depression, attention problems, autism or other neuropsychiatric conditions may be at increased risk for Type 2 diabetes. ...

How Safe Are Sugar Free Products?
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
... Christine Miller is a Registered and Licensed dietitian, as well as a Certified Diabetes Educator. Christine moderates the Living ...

From cancer research, smooth skin
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Fox Chase scientists were looking to cure diabetes and cancer when they found a potentially lucrative bonus - an anti-aging cream. By Susan FitzGerald. ...

Intensive therapy cuts diabetes problems: study
CTV - Canada
... The benefits of such an approach can be seen in someone like Erin Robins, who was diagnosed with type I diabetes as a teenager when she became a participant in ...

Potatoes during pregnancy linked to juvenile diabetes
PakTribune.com - Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Australian researchers believe they have found a trigger of type 1 diabetes in children - their mothers eating potatoes and other tuberous ...

Targets in diabetes
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
... Diabetes is one of the major causes of cardiovascular diseases. Diabetes is being described as a new epidemic in the 21st century. ...

Motorcyclists with vision
Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
The 50-something Morden resident has had three laser eye surgeries and diabetes has triggered difficulties with his vision, but despite it all he still manages ...

Epileptics face similar problems behind the wheel
Janesville Gazette - Janesville,WI,USA
... months before driving. No such moratorium is required for drivers with diabetes and other medical conditions. They are required ...

News for Week #25 2005

Diabetes and Foot Complications
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
Serious complications develop as a result of the impact that diabetes has on blood vessels and the body's circulatory system. Among ...

Metabolic Syndrome in Kids
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA
With more kids than ever dealing with the devastating effects of obesity and diabetes, a new health problem -- metabolic syndrome -- may be on the rise for ...

New Treatment May Help Preserve Insulin Production in People With ...
About Diabetes - USA
According to a new European research, the treatment of Type 1 diabetes with a monoclonal antibody may help preserve insulin-making abilities in people who have ...

Children's Hospital study offers answers on diabetes
Buffalo Business First - Buffalo,NY,USA
Dr. Teresa Quattrin, chief of the hospital's division of endocrinology, found that inhaled powdered insulin offers the same sugar control as injectable liquid ...

Russia to open first insulin making plant
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
PENZA, June 23 (RIA Novosti, Denis Sobolov) - The first joint Russian-Chinese enterprise for producing insulin on the basis of genetic engineering will be ...

Little Lobbyists for Diabetes
Burke Connection - McLean,VA,USA
... many of them children. Those with Type I diabetes have no ability to produce insulin in their pancreas. Allyson's mother, Anne Biersacl ...

India set to get access to Bimstec markets
Algorum - India
... big market in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Nepal. India is also planning to export insulin to the Bimstec countries on a large scale.

Life changes could curb metabolic syndrome
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
A recent study involved 3,234 adults with high blood sugar levels but not full-fledged diabetes; about half had metabolic syndrome. ...

Increased risk of common infections in patients suffering from ...
MedIndia - India
People suffering from diabetes type 1 or type 2 are at increased risk from having respiratory infections, urinary tract infections and skin infections. ...

Gestational diabetes occurs in 4 percent of pregnancies
Florence Morning News - Florence,SC,USA
Gestational diabetes is becoming increasingly recognized as a condition that, left unchecked, can have serious health repercussions for women and their newborns ...

Treatment Preserves Insulin-Making Cells in Type 1 Diabetes
Forbes - USA
WEDNESDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with a monoclonal antibody, a new type of therapy, may help preserve insulin-making abilities in people who ...

Lilly accuses Chinese firm of infringing insulin patents
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Indianapolis (Star report) -- Eli Lilly and Co. is suing a Chinese company, saying it infringed patents for Lilly's human insulin. ...

Insulin Needs after CD3-Antibody Therapy in New-Onset Type 1 ...
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription) - MA,USA
Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a T-cell--mediated autoimmune disease that leads to a major loss of insulin-secreting beta cells. ...

Type 1 Diabetes -- Does Suppressing T Cells Increase Insulin?
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription) - MA,USA
Although major advances have led to an improved understanding of this disease, important gaps in knowledge must be bridged before insulin replacement is ...

Resolution of Insulin-Requiring Diabetes After Cessation of ...
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
... On referral to the diabetes clinic she was started on subcutaneous mixed insulin twice daily; a dietitian found her diet to be good, with little excess refined ...

Caffeine cuts nighttime diabetes problem
Reuters.uk - UK
... suggested before.". People with type 1 diabetes have to take insulin to keep their blood glucose levels within the normal range. When ...

Study Confirms Intensive Treatment Of Type 1 Diabetic Patients with Insulin...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... "The EDIC study examined the long-term effects of an average of 6.5 years of conventional insulin treatment versus intensive insulin treatment in Type 1". ...

Insulin resistance drug with anti-inflammatory effects reduces ...
News-Medical.net - World
A drug, which reduces insulin resistance and also may have anti-inflammatory and other effects on blood vessels, lowered cardiovascular risk factors in ...

Phosphagenics: Good Results From TPM-01 Preclinical Trials
Yahoo News - USA
... "Peptides are a very important class of pharmaceutical compounds - insulin and growth hormone are two other well known examples - that currently must be ...

Three novel therapies could slow progress of Alzheimer's
USA Today - USA
... In a third study, Suzanne Craft of the University of Washington and the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Medical Center tested the ability of insulin, used to ...

Metrika Receives FDA Clearance to Market INView(TM) Multi-Test A1C ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all diagnosed diabetes cases, occurs when the body either does not produce enough insulin or the cells ...

Diabetic Neuropathy a Threat but Often Preventable
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... OK -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/20/2005 -- People with diabetes can greatly improve their chances of preventing or limiting the impact of diabetic neuropathy, a ...

Local diabetic, 10, going to Capitol to press cause
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
... chapter, Meyer said. Both Austin and his sister, Maggie, 8, who is not diabetic, have served as youth ambassadors. Their parents ...

New Drug Treats Multiple Problems of People With Type 2 Diabetes
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
... lowering blood glucose and reducing weight and waist circumference, as well as modifying the disordered lipids associated with diabetic dyslipidemia, according ...

Diabetes study to track 9,100 people
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... A 2002 ministry survey showed that about 7.4 million adults suffer from diabetes, while about 8.8 million are considered at risk of becoming diabetic. ...

Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Premature Aging
About Diabetes - USA
One aditional negative effect of obesity and insulin resistance: Researchers report that being overweight and having reduced sensitivity to the action of ...

Exercise Improves Blood Sugar Metabolism
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
... improve the body's ability to control blood sugar levels, adding further evidence that exercise can forestall the development of diabetes or cardiovascular ...

New drug slows type 1 diabetes
USA Today - USA
By Anita Manning, USA TODAY. An experimental drug slows the course of type 1, or juvenile, diabetes and one day might prevent it altogether, researchers say. ...

Treatment Preserves Insulin-Making Cells in Type 1 Diabetes
Forbes - USA
... Treatment with a monoclonal antibody, a new type of therapy, may help preserve insulin-making abilities in people who have recently developed type 1 diabetes. ...

Diabetes and Depression Increase Risk of Dying Early
About Diabetes - USA
People with diabetes should be routinelly screened for depression. A recent study lead by Dr. Leonard E. Egede, an assistant professor ...

Diabetes: How lifestyle and daily routine affect blood sugar
MayoClinic.com - USA
You can keep your blood sugar within target range and prevent diabetes complications by knowing what makes your blood sugar rise and fall. ...

Reason for diabetes drug causing edema discovered
MedIndia - India
Researchers had been able to find out why the diabetes drug thiazolidinediones (TZDs) can cause edema. Scientists from the University ...

Ministry to study 9,100 people to prevent diabetes
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
... ministry plans to conduct a large-scale study covering 9,100 people over a five-year period on effective ways to prevent and treat diabetes, officials said. ...

Diabetes drug aids IVF success
BBC News - UK
A common diabetes drug can improve the chance of success for some women undergoing IVF, say UK researchers. A hormonal disturbance ...

Pregnancy diabetes tests proposed
TVNZ - New Zealand
Doctors have long debated whether babies would benefit if all pregnant women were tested for gestational diabetes. Professor David ...

Combination of Weight Loss Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Objective: To evaluate the effects over 2 years of a weight loss program combining several weight loss strategies on weight loss and diabetes control in ...

When family, career intersect
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... A funeral for her uncle -- who died from complications of diabetes -- was held on the same day she started working for LifeScan, a company that sells blood ...

Ginseng fights diabetes precursor?
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Doctors at Washington University are testing ginseng, a root long used in traditional Asian medicine, to see if it can head off diabetes in overweight adults. ...

Canadians with Diabetes & Heart Disease Benefit from Intensive ...
Medical News Today - UK
... cholesterol-lowering to targets below currently recommended levels significantly reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke for people with diabetes and heart ...

Implications for diabetes, Alzheimer's, even teeth
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
... a host of diseases and conditions. Among the most promising are Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. Dr. Ed Markin is director of ...

Better Ways to Beat Diabetes
Newsweek - USA
... Obesity can foster diseases ranging from cancer to heart failure, and it's a clear factor in the country's growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes. ...

Diabetic men at risk of low testosterone, says study
Financial Express - Bombay,India
LOS ANGELES: Men over the age of 45 with diabetes are more than twice as likely as non-diabetic men in the age group to have low testosterone, making them ...

Obesity and Insulin Resistance Age Cells
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
A person who is overweight and has reduced sensitivity to the hormone insulin may be aging prematurely, according to new research. ...

Diabetic Retinopathy Occurs in Pre-Diabetes
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
Diabetic retinopathy has been found in nearly 8 percent of pre-diabetic participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), according to a report presented ...

News for Week #24 2005

State launches new diabetes Web site
El Defensor Chieftain - Socorro,NM,USA

Teenagers with Type 1 diabetes already developing cardiovascular ...
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
Youths with type 1 diabetes, especially boys, already show early signs of cardiovascular disease by their teen-age years, according to researchers from the ...

Dairy products Defends Type 2 Diabetes
MedIndia - India
... General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health, has shown that higher intake of low-fat dairy may lower the risk of type II diabetes in men. ...

Smoking and diabetes a major risk
Irish Health - Ireland
Smoking among people with diabetes parallels that of the general population, despite the fact that these two things combined significantly increase the risk of ...

Study: Most sophomore students have a family history of diabetes
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
A recently issued research study on diabetes showed that majority of sophomore students who are of Asian or Pacific Islander descent have a family history of ...

Basal Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus are usually treated initially with oral antidiabetic agents, but as the disease progresses, most patients eventually ...

Diabetes awareness aimed at African-Caribbean community
Black Britain - UK
Afro-Caribbean diabetic sufferers are set to be provided with a better understanding of diabetes by Department of Health (DH). There ...

Xenical helps obese teens shed weight
TNEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
When combined with a low-calorie diet, exercise and behavioral therapy, treatment with Xenical significantly improves weight management for obese teenagers, new research suggests ...

Vytorin shown to be as effective for diabetes sufferers
Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA
... investigating the ability of Merck & Co's Vytorin to reduce cholesterol has revealed that the treatment is as effective in patients also suffering from diabetes ...

Hospitalizations for diabetes fall
USA Today - USA
SAN DIEGO -- From the mid-1990s to 2002, hospitalizations for diabetes-related conditions dropped by 35% and the incidence of end-stage kidney disease fell 30 ...

FDA may go slow on diabetes blockbuster
CNN - USA
... smokers and children. Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States -- and costs are mounting. San Diego ...

Cut the Pain in Diabetes Blood Sugar Test
FOX News - USA
People with diabetes can check their blood sugar with a prick to their palm rather than their fingertips, which are much more sensitive to pain, say researchers ...

Diabetes Data Boost Amylin
TheStreet.com - USA
... jump Monday, following word that the company and Eli Lilly (LLY:NYSE - commentary - research) had positive results from a study of the diabetes treatment Byetta ...

Drug reduces risk of Type 2 diabetes
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
13 (UPI) -- A California study finds using a drug to reduce insulin resistance in women who became diabetic while pregnant reduces their risk of Type 2 diabetes ...

Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Growing at Exponential Rates in the ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
People Can Take Measures to Prevent and Better Manage Type 2 Diabetes NEW YORK, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- THIS IS A MULTIVU SPECIAL REPORT. ...

PhytoMedical Expands Diabetes Research Efforts with Addition of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... John S. Striffler to its scientific research team in order to accelerate ongoing studies of the beneficial effects of cinnamon on insulin and diabetes, and in ...

Maternal and Perinatal Magnesium Restriction Predisposes Rat Pups ...
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
... A., Cani, C., Malta, L., Pineo, A., Busardo, A. & Paolisso, G. (2003) Role of magnesium in insulin action, diabetes and cardio-metabolic syndrome X. Mol. ...

FDA Approves Levemir(R) (insulin detemir [rDNA Origin] Injection) ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... NYSE: NVO - News) announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Levemir® (insulin detemir [rDNA ... (1) Levemir® (insulin detemir). ...

BBC News Magazine
BBC News - UK
... It was first touted quarter of a century ago as a way for diabetics to control their insulin levels, and has been popular in Australia for almost a decade. ...

Local biotechs combating medical, financial strain of diabetes
San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription) - San Diego,CA,USA
... In type 2 diabetes, either the body does not produce enough insulin or cells ignore the insulin, which is necessary for the body to process sugar. ...

Insulin Mouth Spray Works Fast, Study Shows
WebMD - USA
June 16, 2005 -- An insulin mouth spray works faster and seems to be just as effective as insulin injections, a new study shows. ... "This is a very fast insulin. ...

Generex Biotechnology Announces Completion of $2.0 Million ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... the proceeds from the transaction to fund the initial launch of commercial sales of its flagship product, Oral-lyn(TM) (a proprietary oral insulin buccal spray ...

Scots kids fail to manage their diabetes
grampian tv - Aberdeen,Scotland,UK
The future of Scots children with diabetes is under threat because of a failure to manage the condition effectively. That's the ...

Factors Beyond Diabetes Likely Contribute to Diabetic's Risk for ...
Cancer Consultants (press release) - Memphis,TN,USA
A recent study conducted in the United Kingdom indicates that diabetes is not the cause of the growing number of obesity- and alcohol-related cancers. ...

Metabolic Syndrome On The Rise
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
... of the following five: Central obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, hypertension or insulin resistance, they make a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome ...

Metabolic Syndrome or Insulin Resistance? Semantics in the ...
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
Metabolic Syndrome, based on a list of weight- and lipid-based criteria, is a tool for identifying those with the potential for heart disease. ...

CDC: Diabetes Cases Soaring, Obesity Related
FOX News - USA
By Miranda Hitti. Seven out of 1,000 US adults aged 18-79 years were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2003. That's 41 percent higher ...

Insulin cells persist in long-standing diabetes
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In type 1 diabetes, which by definition indicates a lack of insulin production, the insulin-producing "beta" cells in the pancreas ...

Diabetes Hospitalizations Decline
Sci-Tech Today - USA
The 30 percent decline during those years followed a steady increase that peaked in 1996 at 327 cases per 100,000 people with diabetes. ...

Type 2 diabetes and nephropathy, Ruboxistaurin shows favorable ...
Xagena.it - Italy
A one-year pilot study examined the effect of Ruboxistaurin in patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy. Data showed ...

Data Presented at American Diabetes Association Scientific ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Results from three two-year studies presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association showed ...

ADA: Lung Function Still a Problem with Inhaled Insulin
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
SAN DIEGO, June 14-Inhaled insulin products, which have been in development for more than 10 years, have efficacy comparable to subcutaneous short-acting ...

ADA: A Patch for Insulin Delivery May Be Option for Diabetics
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
SAN DIEGO, June 14-The first results from an investigational transdermal insulin delivery system suggest that it is possible to deliver insulin through the skin ...

The benefits of using insulin earlier, Canadian study
Medical News Today - UK
... demonstrate that patients with type 2 diabetes can safely achieve target blood sugar (glycemic) levels faster and more frequently when insulin glargine (a basal ...

Insulin cells persist in long-standing diabetes
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In type 1 diabetes, which by definition indicates a lack of insulin production, the insulin-producing "beta" cells in the pancreas ...

Lilly drug found effective in treatment of kidney disease
Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA
has achieved results from a one year pilot study indicating that its drug candidate ruboxistaurin is capable of helping to reduce diabetic kidney damage. ...

Medtronic Reports New Studies Confirming That Pump Therapy ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
(NYSE:MDT) today reported that three new studies demonstrate the value of insulin pump therapy in lowering A1C levels in pediatric type 1 diabetes patients. ...

World Congress on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome
Medscape (subscription) - USA
The Second World Congress on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome (IRS) addressed numerous aspects of what we now realize to be an increasingly complex clinical ...

Overweight adolescent girls risk developing metabolic syndrome
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA
While there have been many articles about women's health lately, concerns about something called metabolic syndrome -- the combination of obesity with elevated ...

Glucose-Insulin-Potassium Infusion and Mortality in the CREATE ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... 2 In DIGAMI, the investigators used a GIK infusion initially but also subsequently attempted good glycemic control with subcutaneous insulin during the initial ...

Breastfeeding as good for children's blood pressure as exercise ...
Medical News Today - UK
The research team assessed the impact of breastfeeding on elements of the metabolic syndrome in over 2000 randomly chosen children from Denmark and Estonia ...

Quark Biotech Discovers Role of RTP801 in the Pathogenesis of ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... findings from a study that suggest that the hypoxia inducible gene RTP801 may serve an important role in the pathogenesis of early diabetic retinal disease. ...

Preventing Brain Damage After Diabetic Coma
Ivanhoe - USA
... impairment. Researchers from San Francisco VA Medical Center looked at the effectiveness of pyruvate for a diabetic coma. Pyruvate ...

Sex-specific Differences in Presenting Symptoms of Diabetic and ...
AEM (subscription) - USA
... Results: Among diabetic patients: 1) mortalitiy rates were higher in diabetic women compared to men (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.66); 2) atypical, non-chest pain ...

Potential for brain stem cells to be used to cure diabetes
News-Medical.net - World
Dr Seung Kim and colleagues were able to coax the immature brain cells to develop into the insulin-producing islet cells that are lacking in diabetes which ...

Inhaled Technosphere® Mimics the Normally-Occurring First Phase ...
Medical News Today - UK
... Association in San Diego, California, highlight the potential of MannKind Corporation's (Nasdaq: MNKD) lead product, inhaled Technosphere® Insulin (TI), to ...

Type 1 diabetics that control glucose with intensive insulin lower cardiac risk
USA Today - USA
... Participants were given standard care or more intensive treatment, which meant more frequent daily blood testing and insulin injections. ...

Once-Daily Pill Lowers Blood Sugar and Cholesterol in Diabetics
Forbes - USA
... blood sugar and high cholesterol, the major problems faced by people with type 2 diabetes, in which the body gradually loses its ability to metabolize insulin. ...

Studies at ADA Demonstrate Vildagliptin Improves Islet Health and ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... 4, a recently approved injectable anti-diabetes drug, in improving measures of glycemic control and stimulating the growth of new insulin-producing beta cells ...

New diabetes drug aids blood fats as well as sugar
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... on Sunday. If approved by regulators, Pargluva, or muraglitazar, would be the first insulin sensitizer to also target lipids. The ...

Israeli Researchers Coax Liver Cells to Produce Insulin
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription) - Brooklyn,NY,USA
By ISRAEL21c Staff. ISRAEL21c reports new breakthroughs in the production of natural insulin. Recent tests conducted on mice show ...

New Clinical Trial Shows Diachrome(R) Improves Diabetes Care for ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Results of Landmark Study Presented at American Diabetes Association 65th Annual Scientific Sessions Show Significant Effects in Lowering Blood Sugar and ...

Landmark study shows Canadians with diabetes and heart disease ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
- Canadian Diabetes Association welcomes new research supporting the importance of aggressive cholesterol-lowering - TORONTO, June 13 /CNW/ - New clinical data ...

American Diabetes Association (ADA): round up
Drug Researcher.com - Montpellier,France
13/06/2005 - The latest research included in the proceedings of the annual scientific meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) means that diabetic ...

Study says treating diabetes helps babies
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
SAN DIEGO -- Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy give birth to healthier babies if they are aggressively treated, concludes a large new study that ...

Teenagers with Type 1 diabetes already developing cardiovascular ...
Medical News Today - UK
Youths with type 1 diabetes, especially boys, already show early signs of cardiovascular disease by their teen-age years, according to researchers from the ...

Taking a pill reduces blood glucose of Diabetes 2 patients ...
Medical News Today - UK
... the registered trade name PARGLUVA™) during a late-breaking presentation of the 65th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). ...

Better diabetes care showing results
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- Far fewer Americans with diabetes are ending up in emergency rooms or developing kidney failure--a sign that diabetes care has ...

Study: Care improving for diabetes
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
SAN DIEGO - For years, public health officials have urged people to do simple things to manage their diabetes: Watch blood sugar levels, eat a healthy diet and ...

'Adult' diabetes hitting children
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
Driven by the obesity epidemic, type 2 diabetes -- once called ''adult-onset" -- is becoming increasingly common among children and teenagers, to the point ...

Diabetes hospitalization rates falling, CDC says
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
SAN DIEGO, June 11 (Reuters) - Americans with diabetes are less likely to need hospitalization for serious complications such as kidney failure than they were ...

Diabetes Drug ACTOS(r) Showed Anti-inflammatory Effects
Medical News Today - UK
A new study presented today at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 65th Annual Scientific Sessions showed that the type 2 diabetes drug ACTOS reduced C ...

Diabetes called threat to male sex drive
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
LOS ANGELES - Men older than 45 with diabetes are more than twice as likely as nondiabetic men in the age group to have low testosterone, making them ...

New Drug Treats Multiple Problems of People With Type 2 Diabetes
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... "Because we know that abdominal obesity is closely linked to insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk factors, if we target abdominal ...

Rimonabant Study Shows Significant Improvements in HbA1c and ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... on HbA1c, waist circumference, body weight and other cardiometabolic risk factors such as dyslipidemia and blood pressure as well as metabolic syndrome. ...

Genes May Predispose Mexican Americans to Insulin Resistance
Newswise (press release) - USA
... that low-grade inflammation is linked to heart disease and diabetes, more recent studies have shown that inflammation plays a role in insulin resistance, a ...

AstraZeneca Presents Encouraging Phase II Results for GALIDA(TM) ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... GALIDA significantly and dose-dependently improves post-prandial glucose and lipid metabolism in non-diabetic subjects with manifestations of insulin resistance ...

Entelos Presents Comparative Analysis Results in an Oral Session ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Additionally, NOD mouse studies, such as insulin tolerization and anti-CD3, indicate that administration dose and schedule can drastically influence efficacy. ...

News for Week #23 2005

High Stakes for Inhaled Insulin
TheStreet.com - USA
By the end of October, millions of diabetics will find out if they can try a new way of taking insulin -- inhaling the drug rather than injecting it. ...

Oral insulin spray may offer treatment advantage
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new study conducted with healthy volunteers show that an investigational oral insulin spray formulation "is mainly ...

Study Shows BYETTA(TM) Improves Blood Sugar Levels as Effectively ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... today announced results from a study indicating that BYETTA(TM) (exenatide) injection improves blood sugar levels as effectively as insulin glargine (Lantus ...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 enhances production of insulin in insulin ...
Journal of Endocrinology
Embryonic stem cells (ESC) can be differentiated into insulin-producing cells by a 5 stage procedure involving altering culture conditions and addition of ...

Military looking for a few good medics
MSNBC - USA
... This time, the initial report is wrong -- no a gun shot victim, just a 300-pound diabetic, former professional boxer whose hypoglycemic state has him flailing ...

Procedure May Save Patients From Developing Diabetes
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Without a pancreas to produce insulin, these patients develop "surgical diabetes" and must take insulin for the rest of their lives. ...

FDA Delays Review of Insmed's SomatoKine
Forbes - USA
... SomatoKine combines insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3. The company is looking for FDA approval to treat Growth ...

State slaps facility with $10,000 fine
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
... released Tuesday, "the facility did not provide prompt and competent medical interventions; follow the facility protocol for ...

'Brown Fat' Cells Hold Clues For Possible Obesity Treatments
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... "We used those cell lines to study how insulin affects the conversion of fat precursors, or preadipocytes, into mature brown adipocytes," said Dr. Tseng. ...

Testicular Cancer Survivors at Increased Risk for Metabolic ...
Cancerpage.com - Marietta,GA,USA
... In long-term survivors of testicular cancer, alterations in testosterone may play a role in the development of the metabolic syndrome, Danish investigators ...

Phase II Trial of GALIDA(TM) (tesaglitazar) Evaluates Glucose and ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... today, for the first time, the results of the phase II dose finding study for GALIDA(TM) (tesaglitazar), at the 65th annual American Diabetes Association (ADA ...

New Lilly diabetes fighter rivals insulin
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
A new diabetes drug from Eli Lilly and Co. ... In the study, all patients took the diabetes pills in addition to getting injections of either Byetta or Lantus. ...

Pill controls diabetes without side effects-study
Reuters.uk - UK
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An experimental diabetes drug can control blood sugar without causing weight gain or swelling, according to a small mid-stage clinical ...

News About Obesity Drug Acomplia (rimonabant) and Diabetes ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... com) editors will provide the latest news about the obesity drug Acomplia (rimonabant) when it is presented at the American Diabetes Association meeting in San ...

Kids aren't alone in fight against diabetes
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... But every few hours, Hannah has to stop for a few minutes to prick her finger and take a shot because she has type 1 diabetes. This ...

Weight control protects against low birth weight related glucose ...
Medical News Today - UK
Obesity, physical inactivity, genetics and age have long been recognized as risk factors for developing high blood glucose and diabetes. ...

Nicotinic Acid in the Management of Dyslipidaemia Associated With ...
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
Individuals with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome are at markedly increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. ...

Procedure May Save Patients From Developing Diabetes
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Transplanting a patient's own islet cells is a simple procedure that can save pancreatitis sufferers from developing diabetes, but many are unaware the therapy ...

Provalis shares fall on diabetes test setback
Reuters.uk - UK
... group Provalis Plc said on Friday it would post higher full-year losses due to "several teething problems" with its blood sugar test for diabetes, sending its ...

Prospective Study Published in Diabetes Care Confirms Basal ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
One of the largest prospective treatment trials of diabetes management ever undertaken revealed once-daily Lantus(R)(insulin glargine [rDNA origin] injection ...

Use of Insulin for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Increasing as a ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Today, Over 4% of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Receive Insulin as a First- Line Therapy, According to DecisionMETRICS WALTHAM and WATERTOWN, Mass., June 9 ...

KineMed, Inc. Announces Presentations at The American Diabetes ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... medical diagnostics company, announced today that it will make presentations related to two new product programs at the American Diabetes Association's 65th ...

Diabetes And Diet
50 Connect - UK
Eating 5 tablespoons or more of peanut butter a week may help lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes in women, according to an article in the Journal of the ...

Diabetes-Related Hypoglycemia Risk Greater With Jogging Than With ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
... "Our finding has implications for safe participation in exercise by individuals with type 1 diabetes," Dr. Kym J. Guelfi, who led the study, told Reuters Health ...

Type 1 Diabetes Successfully Treated after Series of Islet Cell ...
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
By Carolinas HealthCare System , A Davidson woman has been successfully treated for her Type 1 diabetes through a procedure performed at Carolinas Medical ...

Abbott Diabetes Care
GMTV - UK
People with diabetes need to be able to test their blood sugar any time, anywhere -- so the smaller and more discreet the meter - the better. ...

Insulin Pump Therapy in Young Children With Type 1 Diabetes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Objective: This study assesses the effects of insulin pump therapy on diabetes control and family life in children 1--6 years old with type 1 diabetes. ...

Clinical trial helps local woman live with diabetes
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle - Clarksville,TN,USA
For Delfina Rutledge, being a test subject for an experimental drug was a way to do more than just live and die with diabetes, as several people she knows have ...

Minorities receive less diabetes-related prevention care
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... Hispanic patients with diabete are less likely than white patients to get eye exams, flu shots or cholesterol tests as part of their diabetes prevention care ...

Nutrihand Debuts New Internet Diabetes Management Service for ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
SAN DIEGO, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: Nutrihand Inc., a leading provider of Internet-based diabetes management services, will debut its Private Label service ...

Diabetic's road tragedy raises thorny questions
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... Nebel was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 5 or 6. Diabetes hadn't prevented him from anything, he said. He worked construction. ...

NC woman is now insulin-free after series of three islet cell ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... The result is a patient who is now insulin-free. ... In Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce that insulin, forcing patients to inject insulin every day. ...

Caffeine May Reduce Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Caffeine is associated with a reduction in nocturnal hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes, according to the results of a double-blinded, randomized study published in the June issue of Diabetes Care...

Metabolic Syndrome: What Is It?
More TV 32.com - Tampa,FL,USA
The growing number of overweight Americans is leading to an increased incidence of metabolic syndrome, a disorder that often includes high blood pressure, high ...

MannKind Corporation to Present Data on Inhaled Technosphere(R) ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
The schedule for the oral presentations, general poster and poster-discussion sessions is as follows: * "Mimicry of the Early Phase Insulin Response in Humans ...

Obese Kids May Need Regular Blood Sugar Tests
FOX News - USA
... and young adults have typically have type 1 diabetes, in which the immune system destroys cells in the pancreas that make the hormone insulin, which controls ...

HEE Corporation Announces Final Pilot Study Results
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
Of the ten participants, nine of them were taking oral medication with two of the participants also being insulin dependent. Four ...

New method may make insulin easier to take
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
One big problem with insulin, which millions of people in the United States need to control diabetes, is quietly being solved. The ...

Diabetic kids to go to DC
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Type I diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, is a condition in which a person's pancreas stops producing insulin, the hormone that enables people to get ...

Amylin Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of 12 Abstracts at ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
Amylin has provided an educational grant to support a symposium entitled, "Insulin and Amylin: Balancing Pancreatic Hormones to Achieve Glucose Homeostasis ...

100-Percent Childhood Obesity Predicted by 2044
Ivanhoe - USA
... In a similar study, Booth discovered insulin sensitivity decreases when a body is inactive for just two days. Decreased insulin ...

Low-glycemic may be better than low-fat diet
Reuters Mon Jun 6, 2005 02:46 PM ET
Foods with a low-glycemic index, which are digested relatively slowly and cause smaller increases in blood sugar, may protect the heart ...

First Endocrinology-Focused Clinical Suite is Released
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... Suite Aggregates Large Amounts of Data to Help Treat Diabetics SALT LAKE CITY, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the American Diabetes Association, 18.2 ...

War on diabetes
Irish Health - Ireland
Eight in 10 people with type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes are also obese and have five times the risk of developing cardiac disease than the general ...

Generex Biotechnology Announces Publication of Oral-lyn(TM) ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... Biotechnology Corporation (Nasdaq: GNBT), a leader in the area of buccal drug delivery, today announced that well-known diabetes investigators Professor Itamar ...

Health costs of obesity exceed smoking and drinking
Reuters - Greece
Treating obesity-related disorders costs as much or more than illnesses caused by aging, smoking and problem drinking ...

Diabetes from cradle
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... Fortunately, the boy recovered. But he has been hospitalized more than once because of diabetes-related dehydration. The fact that ...

MannKind Corporation to Present Data on Inhaled Technosphere(R) ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MannKind Corporation (Nasdaq: MNKD), focused on developing and commercializing treatments for diabetes and cancer ...

Amylin Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of 12 Abstracts at ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
(Nasdaq: AMLN - News) today announced that data featuring its two recently approved diabetes drugs, BYETTA(TM) (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN® (pramlintide ...

News for Week #22 2005

Increase in Body Weight Signals Disease Risk in Adolescents
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
As the prevalence of overweight and obesity increases among American children, signs of risk for chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular ...

Weight loss surgery can help reduce metabolic syndrome in obese ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Obese patients who underwent surgical treatment for weight loss had significant reductions in the components of the metabolic syndrome one year after surgery ...

Mediterranean diet effective in reducing metabolic syndrome and ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... closed internal spaces of the body, including the blood vessels) function and in reducing vascular inflammatory markers in patients with the metabolic syndrome ...

Abdominal Fat Indicates Severity of Metabolic Syndrome in Obese ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
New research shows that the presence of intra-abdominal fat can indicate the existence and severity of metabolic syndrome in obese, postmenopausal women. ...

Abdominal Fat Tied to Metabolic Syndrome in Women
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
The distribution of body fat appears to be more important than obesity itself in terms of women's risk for developing the metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of ...

Understanding The Link Between Metabolic Syndrome And Drinking ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular disease risk factors, which include high blood pressure, impaired sugar levels and excess abdominal fat. ...

Metabolic Syndrome Common in Teens
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Nearly one third of overweight or obese teenagers have the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders that raise the risk of developing heart disease and ...

Intranasal insulin may protect against type 1 diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Insulin nasal spray may prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in high risk patients, according to a new study. Research published ...

Insulin pumps effective for children with diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Pre-school youngsters with type I diabetes can be treated as successfully with insulin pumps as with daily injections, researchers at the Indiana University ...

Stem Cells from Brain Transformed to Produce Insulin at Stanford
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... professor of developmental biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said it could lead to new ways of transplanting insulin-producing cells into ...

Diabetics with Palm PDA Will Ultimately See How Their Insulin Acts
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Besides the majority of small improvements the new release introduces an outstanding feature - Insulin Time Activity charting. This ...

Type of weight loss surgery more effective at reducing insulin ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Excessive weight can bring with it many medical problems, including insulin resistance and often type 2 diabetes. Bariatric surgery ...

Short Term Exercise Significantly Increases Insulin Action
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... the amount of food and drink that formerly sedentary, overweight people ingest during and after short-term exercise has a significant impact on insulin action. ...

Insulin Resistance in Teens may Help in Blood Pressure Control and ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Teenagers, whose bodies are resistant to insulin, face a greater risk of suffering from high blood pressure and obesity later in life, claims a new research. ...

Insulin jelly pills in development
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... in India are developing a gel pill in the hope that it could replace injections in the future, and be used as a method of taking medicines such as insulin. ...

$3,000 insulin pump believed stolen
Kerrville Daily Times - Kerrville,TX,USA
A Kerrville boy was left without his insulin pump Wednesday after it went missing from his belongings at the Olympic Swimming Pool. ...

Scientists generate human islet precursor cells in culture
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
From cadaveric insulin-producing cells - Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National ...

Metabolic Syndrome Found In Kids
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
... than ever before dealing with diabetes, health experts are warning that many others may be heading in that direction, courtesy of metabolic syndrome, a group ...

Re: "(Mis)use of Factor Analysis in the Study of Insulin ...
Am. J.Epideminology (subscription) - UK
... by Lawlor et al. (1 ) regarding the utility of factor analysis in understanding the metabolic syndrome (MetS). We agree that the ...

Depression's 'vicious cycle' cuts life, studies show
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... The craving for carbohydrates and the hormone insulin are key players of the biological mischief caused by depression, Gold says. ...

Taking a shot at oral insulin
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... from the National Institutes of Health, a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin is developing an alternative to daily insulin injections for ...

Metabolic Syndrome Found Prevalent in Elementary School Children ...
Medical News Today - UK
The metabolic syndrome, a dangerous cluster of risk factors previously seen in adults and adolescents, is now appearing in elementary school-aged children. ...

Metabolic Syndrome Found in Many Young Kids
WebMD - USA
... before dealing with diabetes, health experts are warning that many others may be heading in that direction, courtesy of metabolic syndrome,metabolic syndrome ...

Children threatened by obesity-related syndrome
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... shows that youngsters in Europe are catching up with their counterparts in the United States, where 2 million children are affected by metabolic syndrome. ...

Cost-Effective Screening for the Metabolic Syndrome in Patients ...
Am J Psychiatry (subscription) - USA
... antipsychotics on weight regulation and glucose and lipid metabolism, little is known about the relationship between these agents and the metabolic syndrome. ...

Metabolic Syndrome Linked to Increased Risk of Chronic Kidney ...
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise -- Patients with the combination of risk factors known as metabolic syndrome are at elevated long-term risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD ...

Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension Tied to Metabolic Syndrome
Medscape (subscription) - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jun 01 - Even mild pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) boosts the risk that a woman will develop metabolic syndrome later on in life ...

Metabolic syndrome and schizophrenia
British Journal of Psychiatry - UK
Metabolic syndrome - a cluster of disorders comprising obesity (central and abdominal), dyslipidaemias, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance (or ...

Steroid treatment does not raise heart attack risk
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
... The only difference was that, in the steroid group, indicators of possible mild insulin resistance appeared. Insulin resistance ...

Irregular periods' allergy link
BBC News - UK
... regular periods. The Thorax study points to metabolic problems, such as insulin resistance, as an underlying cause for both. The ...

Caretaker draws 99 years in McAllen patient death
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
EDINBURG -- A 55-year-old former home health care worker convicted of killing a 68-year-old patient with insulin has been sentenced to 99 years in prison. ...

GP 'tried to poison patient'
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... gave her an insulin injection despite the fact she was not a diabetic. The report said the patient alleged the injection caused her to become hypoglycemic and ...

Smart Capsule for Insulin - Polymeric Capsules
Medical News Today - UK
Moscow chemists have suggested a way to produce insulin in pills instead of injections. ... In thin intestines, insulin can penetrate blood. ...

Sleep disorder liver disease link
BBC News - UK
... The researchers, led by Dr Lawrence Serfaty, found patients with severe OSA were more insulin-resistant and were more likely to have liver damage, compared to ...

Celleration, Inc. Receives FDA Clearance for Expanded Indication ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... The clearance was based in part on the results of its prospective, randomized, double-masked, sham controlled multi-center study in diabetic foot ulcers which ...

Patients with metabolic syndrome, moderate coronary calcium have ...
Medical News Today - UK
But when patients have three of these disorders at the same time, they have what is called the "metabolic syndrome" - an increasingly prevalent disorder ...

Many Heart Attack Patients Have Metabolic Syndrome
Forbes - USA
... May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 50 percent of heart attack patients have a constellation of common risk factors known as "metabolic syndrome," putting them ...

Diabetic Episode Blamed for Police Chase
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
(KSL News) -- A fender bender in Salt Lake City turned into a bizarre police chase today. It started at the Chuck-A-Rama parking lot on 400 South. ...

BioRap Signs Agreement with HaptoGuard to Develop Technologies for ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... "We expect to continue to make significant progress in the diabetic therapeutic area ... Its lead program targets patients with diabetic cardiovascular disease. ...

Cytomedix and Harvest Technologies Settle Patent Dispute
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... He added that Cytomedix is continuing to conduct its own multi-center, prospective, randomized, blinded and controlled clinical trial on diabetic foot ulcers ...

Metabolic Syndrome Worsens Heart-Attack Outcomes
Daily News Central - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Metabolic syndrome -- a group of risk factors in an individual that may precede type 2 diabetes -- is present in nearly 50% of heart-attack patients, putting ...

Type 2 Diabetes: Are You At Risk?
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
November is American Diabetes Awareness Month. ... Approximately 90-95 percent of people living with diabetes have type 2, also known as adult onset, diabetes. ...

Half of people with diabetes don't know they have it
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Half of people with diabetes type 2 have not been diagnosed, according to a research project at Edinburgh University, Scotland. ...

Biotech breakthrough in islet cell replacement for type 1 diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Northwestern University has received a major grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) to advance technologies in the field of islet cell ...

Diabetes Higher on US - Mexico Border
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
A new study shows that people living along the US-Mexico border have higher rates of diabetes and are more overweight and obese than national averages in both ...

'Apple shaped' women are more prone to diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
The researchers are now indicating that waist size is a more accurate way of predicting diabetes risk than weight, reports The Telegraph. ...

Fight Childhood Obesity to Help Prevent Diabetes, Say WHO & IDF
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Each of these children is at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes (which used to be known as mature-onset diabetes), say the World Health Organization ...

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Link
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), people with diabetes are two to four times more likely than other people to develop cardiovascular ...

You can prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Of all the exciting progress that has been reported in the field of diabetes research in recent years, the most exciting and practical includes the ...

Experts warn of diabetes 'time bomb'
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
The NHS must pay more attention to the long term complications caused by type 2 diabetes, experts warned today. More than 1.8 million ...

Vitamin E May Help Reduce Diabetes Risk
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
A daily dose of vitamin E may help delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk of the disease, preliminary research suggests. ...

OHSU researchers study sixth-graders to prevent type 2 diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... physical education (PE) classes, food choices in cafeterias and vending machines, and advertisements for healthy choices can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes ...

Diabetes hikes risk for liver, pancreatic cancers
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
People with diabetes mellitus have three to four times the risk of developing liver cancer, and more than twice the risk of developing pancreatic cancer than ...

Tackling the Problem of Type 1 Diabetes in Developing Countries ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... people to reflect on this day that in developed countries, a new public health challenge is presenting itself in the form of children developing Type 2 diabetes ...

UK diabetes cases soaring
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
A diabetes charity claimed today that 3% of the UK population now has the disease, with a another million cases going unrecognised. ...

Blood Pressure Drugs Not Linked to Diabetes
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
There is some evidence that various types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure could hasten or impede the development of type 2 diabetes, but the latest ...

Diabetes 1 patients should follow advice given to Diabetes 2 ...
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
According to a large British study, Diabetes 1 patients should follow the same advice Diabetes 2 patients are given if they wish to prevent nerve damage. ...

Antipsychotic Drugs Increase Children's Diabetes 2 Risk
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... aggression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia may trigger insulin resistance, a condition that increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and heart ...

Exercise Cuts Polycystic Ovary-Linked Diabetes Risk
Forbes - USA
FRIDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Moderate exercise can improve insulin sensitivity and reduce diabetes risk in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS ...

Amylin diabetes drug aids weight loss
CNN - USA
... said Friday that a high dose of its diabetes drug Symlin, given three times a day by injection, helped obese patients shed weight in a mid-stage clinical trial ...

Diabetes Problem Getting Worse As Low-Carb Solution Still Ignored
South Carolina Headlines - Greenville,SC,USA
In fact, they are now seriously concerned that diabetes has become such a paramount problem that it could literally dismantle the health care system there...

Risk of diabetes increased by being HIV-positive and on HAART
Aidsmap - UK
HIV-positive men who are taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are more than four times more likely to develop diabetes than HIV-negative men ...

National survey on smoking, diabetes conducted soon
Solomon Star Newspaper - Honiara,Solomon Islands
By MOFFAT MAMU. A NATIONAL survey on smoking and diabetes will be conducting by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services. The ...

Air pollution to affect diabetes patients' cardiovascular risks
MedIndia - India
Diabetes patients may be at higher risk of cardiovascular disease from the heightened air pollution levels. The days when air pollutions ...

Caffeine Benefits People With Type 1 Diabetes
Ivanhoe - USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- People with type 1 diabetes who regularly consume caffeine may be getting an extra boost from that morning cup of java. ...

General Tips on living with diabetes
Health24.com - Cape Town,South Africa
Knowing as much as possible is your best defence against diabetes. ... Remember that diabetes cannot be cured, but that you can control it very effectively. ...

Biovail says diabetes drug Glumetza has key approval in Canada ...
National Post - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
TORONTO (CP) - Biovail Corp.'s diabetes drug Glumetza has received key approval in Canada, the biopharmaceutical company said Wednesday. ...

Much of the Suffering Debates Inflicts Is Avoidable
Newhouse News Service (NNS) - USA
BY BRUCE TAYLOR SEEMAN. The diabetes epidemic is worsening, and the results are tragic: more amputated feet, diseased hearts, lost vision and failed kidneys. ...

Diabetes drug levels in breast milk insignificant
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New findings show that women who are breastfeeding can be reassured that if they take metformin for diabetes it won't harm their ...

Newly discovered gene could provide targets for diabetes therapies
News-Medical.net - World
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has announced that JDRF-funded researchers in Australia and the United Kingdom have identified a gene called ...

Diabetes rates in Iowa see 24 percent increase
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Obesity and a lack of exercise helped push Iowa's diabetes rates up by 24 percent between 1995 and 2003, state health officials said. ...

Deal diligently with diabetes
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Diabetes is an epidemic. ... Moreover, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, diabetes numbers more than doubled between 1980 and 2003. ...

Diabetes, hypertension and obesity negatively effect joint ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... joint replacement surgery, a team led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center have determined those surgical patients with diabetes, hypertension or ...

Diabetes Statistics for Senior Citizens and Baby Boomers
SeniorJournal.com - San Antonio,TX,USA
Diabetes is the fifth-deadliest disease in the United States. This year ... B. Medicare will cover tests to check for diabetes. These ...

Congressional Diabetes Caucus Reviews Latest Research on Chromium ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... basic and clinical research on chromium and its essential role in maintaining healthy insulin function to members of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus on May 20 ...

People with diabetes more sensitive to cardiovascular effects from ...
Medical News Today - UK
People with diabetes may be at higher risk for cardiovascular problems when air pollution levels are higher, according to a new study of Boston-area residents. ...

American Diabetes Association Launches Powerful New Health Risk ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Diabetes Association today launched a new interactive Web-based tool that makes it easier for people with ...

Wrong medicine kills 2 in Hong Kong
Rediff - India
A Hong Kong doctor mistakenly dispensed diabetes medication to 151 patients, two of whom have died, the government said. The medication ...

South Asians more prone to heart diseases
HindustanTimes.com UK edition - India
... The reasons for heart disease risk could include: "higher rates of diabetes, disadvantaged socioeconomic status, high fat diet, and lack of exercise, but the ...

DIABETES AND THE DMV
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
The California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended or revoked 2,755 licenses last year for diabetes-related problems. How does it happen? ...

Poor glycemic control could make diabetics depressed
NutraIngredients-usa.com - Montpellier,France
... of General Internal Medicine, found a correlation between PGC and advancing categories of depression severity in group of more than 200 Hispanics with diabetes ...

Firms try to predict health of workers
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
... The truckmaker's workers were nearly twice as likely as the public to suffer from diabetes, a chronic condition that can lead to serious health problems. ...

Ginseng might aid in diabetes prevention
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
Doctors at Washington University are testing ginseng, a root long used in traditional Asian medicine, to see whether it can head off diabetes in overweight ...

Hyperglycemia slows mental functions in people with diabetes
Xagena.it - Italy
A temporary rise in blood glucose levels in people with both types of diabetes can interfere with their ability to think quickly and solve problems. ...

Diabetes - Concern of All
konkaniworld - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
... Professor of Medicine at the MR Medical college here, pointed out that, Indians, as an ethnic race, appeared to be more prone to diabetes, hypertension and ...

Chromium benefits for diabetes being studied
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... cells. . PROS: Preliminary research suggests that chromium can help regulate blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes. Three ...

Diabetes patients have to remember more and more numbers
Medical News Today - UK
Doctors want their diabetic patients to remember a lot of numbers. Simple blood glucose indicates current blood sugar level. Knowing ...

Did diabetes develop as a way to stay warm?
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
A provocative new theory suggests that thousands of years ago, juvenile diabetes may have evolved as a way to stay warm. People ...

News for Week #21 2005

Losing humanity a backward step in a 'progressive' world
Vancouver Province (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Like many readers, we were shocked by yesterday's Province story about the 29-year-old diabetic left lying on the ground for about an hour at the Scott Road ...

Bad Diabetes Diet Equals Diabetes Symptom - Start a Balanced ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... and physical activity. A balanced diabetic diet can save you from diabetes symptoms that plague people with diabetes. (PRWEB) May ...

Evaluation of Young's Modulus in Achilles Tendons with Diabetic ...
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
* Diabetic Foot and Limb Salvage, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk. Tidewater Foot and Ankle Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia. ...

CYPHER(R) Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent Clinical Data to Be ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... The presentations include a diabetic sub-group analysis data from the ARTS-II trial, a multi-center, prospective, non-randomized study of multi- vessel stenting ...

Avoiding Brain Blood Oxygen Desaturation Is Associated With ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... News) today announced that results of a clinical study showed that avoidance of cerebral oxygen desaturations in actively managed diabetic coronary artery ...

Bad Diabetes Diet Equals Diabetes Symptom - Start a Balanced ...
Prudent Press Agency (press release) - Den Haag,Netherlands
By Prudent Press Agency. Diabetes symptoms are directly related to a diabetes diet, and physical activity. A balanced diabetic diet ...

Stress And Diabetes: a Review of the Links
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
In recent years, the complexities of the relationship between stress and diabetes have become well known but have been less well researched. ...

Dairy products reduce type 2 diabetes, lower blood pressure
Virginia Farm Bureau (press release) - Richmond,VA,USA
Two new studies show that those who incorporate lowfat dairy products into their diets can lower blood pressure and reduce type 2 diabetes. ...

Walking Helps Control Diabetes
About Diabetes - USA
Exercise and walking are excellent tools for controlling Type II diabetes and improving health for people with diabetes. A study ...

Insulin May Trigger Type 1 Diabetes
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
Researchers have long puzzled over what causes the body to turn against itself in type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that destroys insulin-secreting cells ...

NIH Researchers Discover How Insulin Allows Entry of Glucose into ...
Medical News Today - UK
... Biology, was conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive ...

Antibiotic might stop diabetic eye damage
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Experiments in rats suggest that minocycline, an antibiotic, could curb a common cause of vision problems in people with diabetes. ...

High Blood Sugar and Diabetes
Military.com - USA
Pre-diabetic refers to Type II diabetes and usually occurs in older and/or obese people who do not have to have a family history of diabetes. ...

Link between depression severity and poor glycemic control among ...
Medical News Today - UK
In a study of more than 200 Hispanics with diabetes, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians and ...

Resistance training benefits older Hispanic adults with type 2 ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
With diabetes rates more than doubling in the past 20 years and one million new cases diagnosed every year, clinicians and researchers are searching for ways ...

People With Diabetes at Increased Risk for Stroke, Other Serious ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 18 million Americans have diabetes and all are at a substantially higher risk of suffering a stroke -- one of ...

38 Minutes to Better Health With Diabetes
FOX News - USA
By Miranda Hitti. People with type 2 diabetes may be able to upgrade their health in about half the time it takes to watch one episode of Desperate Housewives. ...

NZ treatment gets FDA approval
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
... a New Zealand company, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast-track status for a product used to treat heart failure in people with diabetes ...

DIABETES FEAR FOR OBESE KIDS
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
AT least 1300 young Scottish adults have Type 2 diabetes - which is linked to obesity - the Executive have revealed. But health ...

Metabolic Syndrome, Coronary Calcium Patients Have Greater Chance ...
Newswise (press release) - USA
... an increasingly prevalent disorder affecting up to 40 percent of the adult population in the United States -- frequently leading to diabetes and accelerated ...

1 in 4 Kids Will Suffer Diabetes
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
The Diabetes Federation of Ireland (DFI) claimed soaring obesity levels are leading to thousands developing the illness. And the ...

Brown fat to help metabolic syndrome?
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
... white fat. Precursors of brown fat are still present in adults and this is the basis for the study at the Joslin Diabetes Centre. It ...

Health notes
Blue Springs Examiner - Blue Springs / Independence,MO,USA
... clinic serves uninsured adults who fall below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, who have pre-existing chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma or ...

How Much Exercise Is Enough?
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... Researchers have known for several years that increasing physical activity can greatly increase the health of people with type 2 diabetes, by reducing the risk ...

Medicare offers new preventive screenings
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
The three new preventive benefits are a one-time "Welcome to Medicare" physical exam, cardiovascular screening, and diabetes screening. ...

Joslin Diabetes Center Scientists Find ‘Brown Fat Cells' Hold ...
About Diabetes - USA
Joslin Diabetes Center scientists have discovered a group of genes that govern the genesis of calorie-burning fat cells called "Brown Fat Cells". ...

Low-fat dairy may lower risk of diabetes in men
Naples Daily News (subscription) - Naples,FL,USA
CHICAGO -- Eating low-fat dairy products may help slightly lower the risk of developing diabetes, a new study of more than 40,000 middle-aged men suggests. ...

Asian Americans face higher diabetes risk
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
It's a significant risk factor for diabetes among Asian Americans -- even among those who aren't overweight, say researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in ...

Research on type-one diabetes and the environment
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
The number of people who have Type-one Diabetes has tripled in the last fifty years. Now, scientists believe the environment is ...

Israeli company Metalink unveils innovative chip for home wireless ...
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... May. 23 - Israeli scientists have turned adult liver cells into insulin-producing cells able to treat diabetes when transplanted into mice. ...

Diabetes, a numbers challenge
myDNA.com - Austin,TX,USA
Health educators now emphasize patients also should keep track of their hemoglobin a1c, also called "the A1C," which is an index of average blood glucose of ...

State of diabetes
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
They say people with diabetes don't always have healthy habits to begin with and it's a difficult disease for many patients to manage. ...

HCA may have role in diabetes prevention, suggests animal research
Food Navigator - France
... HCA) strongly delayed glucose absorption in rats suggesting that it could help regulate blood sugar levels in people at risk of diabetes, reports Dominique ...

Ginseng may help prevent diabetes
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... LOUIS - Doctors at Washington University are testing ginseng, a root long used in traditional Asian medicine, to see if it can head off diabetes in overweight ...

Atkins diabetes surprise
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
The controversial high-fat Atkins diet helps patients with diabetes lose weight and control the disease, a landmark Wellington Hospital study has found. ...

Diabetes association working with black churches
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA
CLEVELAND -- The American Diabetes Association is enlisting black church leaders to help educate their congregations about the disease. ...

Diet and exercise: Cornerstones of diabetes management
SheKnows.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
In the United States, one in 14 people live with diabetes. ... Moreover, the incidence of diabetes is on the rise among both adults and children. ...

Diabetes Patients May Soon Find Treatment In Their Liver Cells
All Headline News - USA
It is hoped the work will one day allow the use of a diabetes patient's own liver cells to treat their condition. According to BBC ...

Fishes, Whales, and Fishing Tips: Hooking an Active Lifestyle
RedNova.com - Dallas,TX,USA
The benefits of a physically active lifestyle certainly do not stop at diabetes prevention. It has been well established that a ...

Incretin Hormones, a New Wave of Diabetes Research
Medical News Today - UK
A new understanding of specialized incretin - or gut --hormones may lead to significant advances in the treatment and management of type 2 diabetes. ...

Stem Cells: Big Step for a Controversial Science
Newsweek - USA
The new lines were derived from the skin cells of patients who had spinal-cord injuries, an immune disorder or juvenile diabetes. ...

News for Week #20 2005

Rise in diabetes cases a worry
Fiji Times - Fiji
THERE has been an increase in diabetes cases in the Northern Division from January to May. Health Ministry senior statistician Ruci ...

Pinpricks goodbye
Times of India - New Delhi,India
... Type 1 diabetes typically affects children and young adults. ... Some of the advances in treatment of Type-1 diabetes are in the field of delivery systems. ...

Cardiovascular risk factors under-treated in homeless adults ...
Medical News Today - UK
... Overall, they found a much higher prevalence of smoking, but not diabetes, hypertension or obesity compared to the general population of Canada. ...

When Gluten Enters Infants' Diet Linked to Appearance of Celiac ...
Medical News Today - UK
... These gene variations also confer increased risk for type 1 diabetes; thus, individuals with type 1 diabetes and their first-degree relatives have increased ...

AACE: Most Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Reject Insulin Therapy ...
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
WASHINGTON, May 19-When patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes are given the option of inhaled insulin, the rush to non-needle therapy is still not ...

Diabetes treatment breakthrough
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
In what is claimed to be a world first, a Sydney hospital has reversed the severity of type 2 diabetes in obese patients through exercise rather than medication ...

US Diabetes Control Dangerously Poor
WebMD - USA
May 18, 2005 -- Two-thirds of patients with type 2 diabetes do not adequately control their blood sugar, leaving millions of US patients vulnerable to the ...

Survey: Diabetes patients not watching levels
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Almost three of every four adult New Yorkers with type 2 diabetes are not controlling their blood sugar, according to a new national survey by endocrinologists ...

Doctors: diabetes outlook is 'horrible'
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington,KY,USA
... complications, even death. Yet most are unaware they're doing so poorly, frustrated diabetes specialists said yesterday. "The report ...

Illinoisans 2nd worst at controlling diabetes
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
Many of the millions of Americans with Type 2 diabetes are leaving themselves open to life-threatening complications by not controlling their blood-sugar ...

Blood Pressure Drug Cuts Risk of Diabetes, Especially in High-Risk ...
Medical News Today - UK
A drug that controls blood pressure and reduces heart risk also appears to protect against diabetes, especially in high-risk people, according to new research ...

Study briefs/05-17
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA
Americans with metabolic syndrome -- a condition marked by big waistlines, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol problems -- account for $4 of every ...

Ancient ice age sparked Type 1 diabetes
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Insulin seen possible diabetes trigger (May 12, 2005) -- Insulin, the hormone that helps utilize sugar, may be the actual cause of type 1 diabetes, scientists ...

How Excess Body Fat Can Lead to the Onset of Diabetes
Medical News Today - UK
... have been identified: In the first, "silent" stage, the body's cells lose their ability to respond properly to the crucial hormone insulin, which is ...

PNAS highlights for the week of May 16 - 20
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... report, researchers have converted adult human liver (AHL) cells expressing the pancreatic and duodenal homeobox gene-1 (PDX-1) into insulin-producing cells ...

Metabolic syndrome linked to testosterone deficiency
News-Medical.net - World
Among men studied, those with a history of diabetes, hypertension or hyperlipidemia have a higher prevalence of hypogonadism, according to new research issued ...

Dear Doctor: The five elements of metabolic syndrome
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Michael Danoff, MD, cardiovascular disease. A. Your doctor can diagnose metabolic syndrome easily and without pain. In the United ...

Hydroxycitric acid slows glucose uptake, cuts insulin peaks ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... This delay is good because it reduces the high peaks of glucose, which otherwise would require the body to produce a lot of insulin to deal with the 'meal.'. ...

Insulin Resistance, Weight Gain Lead to Early Aging
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise -- Tulane University researchers are the first to demonstrate a biological link between insulin resistance, weight gain and signs of early aging in ...

Depression Tied to Risk of Becoming Diabetic
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... Health to identify 33,257 cases of type 2 diabetes among people at least 20 years of age, and each was matched to two non-diabetic "controls." The records ...

Koreans tout stem cell cloning triumph
Edmonton Sun - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
TORONTO -- Doctors have long dreamed of being able to grow replacement organs or cell-based therapies to treat such conditions as diabetes and Parkinson's ...

Metabolic syndrome accounts for large portion of drug purchases
Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan
According to a study conducted by Medco Health Solutions, 40 percent of dollars Americans spend on prescription drugs are for adults with metabolic syndrome. ...

Metabolic Syndrome Plagues Some Who Survive Testicular Cancer
Forbes - USA
... Such is the case with testicular cancer, where some survivors face a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, the cluster of conditions that predispose a ...

It's diet and exercise, folks
Inside Bay Area - CA,USA
... proximity. One article examines the effect of diet and exercise versus a diabetes pill on the risk of developing the metabolic syndrome. ...

A happy marriage is the key to a woman's healthy heart!:-
Webindia123 - India
... suggests that women in satisfying relationships are less likely to have a dangerous cluster of heart risk factors called the metabolic syndrome than women ...

Diabetics Take Health Care Into Their Own Hands; Use Online Health ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Designed for people with diabetes (Type I and Type II), pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes, Nutrihand (http://www.nutrihand.com) is the first service of its ...

"New" Theory Places Origin of Diabetes in an Age of Icy Hardships
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
[Theory first presented in a lecture at Princeton in March 2002 "borrowed" from NDC researchers ]... food. But a provocative new theory suggests that thousands of years ago, juvenile diabetes may have evolved as a way to stay warm. ...

Modified Liver Cells Keep Diabetes under Control
Scientific American - USA
Diabetes affects millions of Americans who must monitor their blood sugar closely for life and often undergo frequent insulin injections to avoid undue health ...

Israeli-Swedish team uncovers key to onset of Type 2 diabetes
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
... Science in Rehovot and the University of Umea in Sweden have unraveled a mechanism by which fat contributes to the onset of the Type 2 diabetes, which affects ...

AACE to Announce New Research on Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease
Newswise (press release) - USA
· Diabetes and its complications are increasing faster in Hispanic and Latino populations than in any other ethnic group. Experts ...

New Diabetic Pain Treatment
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USA
... It's like shooting pains.". The high blood sugar, that's the hallmark of diabetes damages nerves over time. Almost half of diabetics suffer with it. ...

Diabetes dangers
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... He has to; as a diabetic for 20 years, the 70-year-old Hill has neuropathy, a common nerve disorder of diabetes mellitus that can lead to the loss of sensation ...

Living and Loving with Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
Diabetes is growing in epidemic proportions in this country. ... for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), diabetes shows no signs of slowing down. ...

Tea has protective role against diabetes, heart problem: study
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
ALLAHABAD -- Keeping at bay type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart problems can literally be everybody's 'cup of tea' as the world's arguably most popular beverage ...

Diabetes Control: Happily Ever After
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
... Recent research confirms that your risk for diabetes complications, especially your risk for heart or circulatory disease, increases when glucose levels. ...

International Tip Sheet
Newsweek - USA
... Stroke, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and the six other leading causes of death kill men at a higher rate than they do women. ...

High overnight blood pressure linked to increased blood sugar ...
Medical News Today - UK
... That could put these so-called "non-dippers" at greater risk for developing diabetes and other diseases, which in turn raises the risk of cardiovascular ...

New drug shown to help control diabetes
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with type 2 diabetes whose blood sugar is inadequately controlled when they're on two oral anti-diabetes medicines, the ...

German blames Coke for diabetes
Financial Express - Bombay,India
ESSEN, MAY 12: A German judge who suffers from diabetes failed today in an attempt to sue soft-drink giant Coca-Cola for causing his condition. ...

Conference on diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Natives, May 16 ...
Medical News Today - UK
A coalition of leading health organizations today announced the first national conference to address cardiovascular disease and diabetes within the American ...

'Diabetes Forecast' and 'Arthritis Today' Announce Joint Program ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... a Significant Program for Advertisers ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Two of the nation's top consumer health magazines -- Diabetes Forecast, published ...

Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT)
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
People with diabetes should receive an informed choice of treatment including risks and benefits of all available treatment options and that the education ...

Why do so many Hispanics not participate in research studies?
Medical News Today - UK
... could help researchers recruit more Hispanic people, which is essential for finding information about the way diseases such as diabetes, hypertension (high ...

Diabetes drug Pioglitazone reduces carotid artery intima-media ...
Xagena.it - Italy
A study found that the diabetes drug Pioglitazone ( Actos ) reduced carotid artery intima-media thickness ( IMT ). Patients taking ...

Insulin loss threatens thousands
Times Online - UK
A COMMON insulin treatment used by thousands of diabetics is to be withdrawn in less than five months, threatening serious disruption to diabetes services ...

Woman Found
Sequoyah County Times - Sallisaw,OK,USA
... Tulsa. Nina Osburn takes several medications, including insulin for diabetes, and left without the medicines, Andy Osburn said.

Doctors fear a ‘diabetic avalanche' is headed for Germany
Frankfurter Allgemeine - Frankfurt,Germany
... As a result of this expected "diabetic avalanche," around 7,000 specialists in the disease discussed ways to prevent this development when the German ...

Diabetic and Obese Teen Carotids Appear Elderly
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
PITTSBURGH, May 13-The carotid arteries of type 2 diabetic or obese teenagers have the look of those their grandfathers might have, suggests a small study. ...

HEE Corporation Selects Marketing Firm media imPRessions to ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... selected marketing firm media imPRessions from Chicago, IL (http://www.media-impressions.com) to assist in the promotion of their Diabetic treatment product HPB ...

Digital Camera May Help Prevent Diabetic Blindness
Lex 18 - Lexington,KY,USA
... Lucille Smith has diabetes and is at risk for diabetic retinopathy, a condition that causes blood vessels in the retina to break down, a leading cause of ...

Mt. Everest 2005: Will Cross a type 1 diabetic takes on Everest ...
Everest News - Nepal
... For those kind of challenges I exercised, keep control of my glucose numbers and I give myself insulin shots when I'm climbing. ...

Reducing insulin resistance
Hindu - Chennai,India
... The excessive exposure of tissues to fatty acids impairs the insulin function and increases blood insulin levels. All this ultimately ...

Type 2 Diabetes Increasing in Children Worldwide
Forbes - USA
... In type 2 diabetes, either the body does not make enough insulin -- a hormone that helps the body's cells use and burn sugar -- or cells become desensitized ...

Orally Delivering Protein-Based Drugs 5/11/05
Bioscience Technology - Rockaway,NJ,USA
... The technique, he says, can be used to create orally-administered versions of other currently injectable protein drugs such as insulin, growth hormone, and ...

News for Week #19 2005

Tell your patients to exercise, diabetes doctors told, new study
Medical News Today - UK
... if their doctors help them create and stick to a formalized exercise plan, according to new Saint Louis University research in the May issue of "Diabetes Care ...

Insulin identified as trigger that causes diabetes
Reuters AlertNet, UK - May 11, 2005
By Patricia Reaney. LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - Two teams of scientists identified the hormone insulin on Wednesday as the trigger ...

A Harvard Trained MD-Cartoonist Provides Free Online Medical ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
NORTHPORT, NY, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Justin Grady Matrisciano MD, an internist and diabetes specialist, has fused his cartooning skills and medical expertise ...

An Invaluable, One-stop Web Site for Diabetics
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
DiabeticsBooks.com, a web site set up by a diabetic for diabetics, offers crucial information to help manage and live with the ailment. ...

Orally Delivering Protein-Based Drugs 5/11/05
Bioscience Technology - Rockaway,NJ,USA
... The technique, he says, can be used to create orally-administered versions of other currently injectable protein drugs such as insulin, growth hormone, and ...

Stem cells show promise in spinal injuries
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Neural cells may help with insulin (April 25, 2005) -- California researchers suggest other cells besides immature pancreatic cells and embryonic stem cells ...

Fasting Serum Glucose Level and Cancer Risk in Korean Men and ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... range. It also does not specify if the patients with diabetes were taking insulin or other medications used to treat diabetes. Second ...

Health Watch: News 3 Special Series On Diabetes
WISC - Madison,WI,USA
Diabetes is a killer, and yet it's the disease many of us know very little about. News 3's Teri Barr takes an in-depth look at its ...

Metabolic syndrome costing four times that for all other patients
News-Medical.net - World
... known that hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are each taking a toll on Americans' health, but according to a new analysis, metabolic syndrome, a condition ...

Metabolic Syndrome: Lifestyle changes may prevent or reverse this ...
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
... has a cluster of symptoms, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and high blood sugar levels, the condition is known as metabolic syndrome. ...

Association of diet with serum insulin-like growth factor I in ...
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription) - Davis,CA,USA
Background: Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) has been implicated in several chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis. ...

Studies advise men on prostate cancer, diabetes
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... Ingredients in dairy products may help the body use insulin to process blood sugar. Adult-onset diabetes results from the body's ...

Type 2 diabetes may begin with Grandma's diet, study suggests
News-Medical.net - World
... published in the latest online edition of the Journal of Physiology provides the first evidence that the insulin resistance typical of type 2 diabetes can be ...

Magnesium Deficiency in Obese Children May Be Linked to Insulin ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
May 9, 2005 -- Magnesium deficiency in obese children is associated with the development of insulin resistance (IR), according to the results of a study ...

Alveair(TM), Coremed, Inc.'s Nano-Tech Unmodified, 'Needleless' ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
CHICAGO, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Alveair(TM), Coremed, Inc.'s unmodified "needleless" yet inhalable insulin, is now the focus of a global pharma consortium's ...

Citrus & Your Heart
50 Connect - UK
... pounds. The research indicates a physiological link between grapefruit and insulin, as it relates to weight management. Dr. Fujioka ...

Low-Fat Dairy Products May Discourage Diabetes
Daily News Central - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Milk, ice cream and other dairy products, especially low-fat varieties, may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in men, a new study claims. ...

Diabetes: Insulin reaction confirmed as trigger
Channel News Asia - Singapore
PARIS, May 11 - Researchers believe they have made an important breakthrough in understanding the severest form of diabetes, confirming that the disease begins ...

Obesity-driven diabetes skyrocketing among kids, teens
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The number of children and adolescents diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes has soared 15-fold in the past generation, and become a global phenomenon, according to a ...

The low carb diet doctor bites back
The Sunday Times - UK
... "The bottom line is: how much of it makes insulin? ... These things don't stimulate insulin (the hormone associated with diabetes). ...

Arrest made in 2 year old death case
WZZM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... Her jail record shows she will be arraigned on Monday in the 63rd District Court in Rockford. Jerry Savoy died in March 2003 from high levels of insulin. ...

First Regulatory Approval Of Non-Injectible Insulin, Generex ...
Medical News Today - UK
... has been approved for commercial marketing and sale by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health for the treatment of both Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes. ...

Type 2 Diabetes Is Increasing Among Children All Over the World
Newswise (press release) - USA
Obesity is a risk factor for development of a variety of complications, including type 2 diabetes, and an increase in the rates of such obesity-associated ...

Antibiotic may limit or prevent vision problems caused by diabetes ...
Medical News Today - UK
... College of Medicine study suggests that a common antibiotic called minocycline may slow or prevent diabetic retinopathy, a ...

New Study Shows Most People with Diabetes are Unaware of Nerve ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diabetic neuropathy is a common, serious complication of diabetes. In fact, it is estimated that one out of two ...

BMI, not HIV status or HAART use, associated with diabetes risk in ...
Aidsmap - UK
... Women's Interagency Study (WIHS), found that the body mass index (BMI) was the only variable associated with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes in a ...

Sucanon Diabetes Drug Shipping to Wal-Mart This Week
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
VANCOUVER, May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Robert Rieveley, the President of Biotech Holdings Ltd. (TSX.V: BIO; OTTBB: BIOHF) announced ...

Survey finds most people with diabetes don't know about highly ...
News-Medical.net - World
A new national survey commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) reveals that, while the majority of people with diabetes experience symptoms ...

Low Fat Dairy Derease Risk of Diabetes
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
... Medicine, Men who include more dairy products in their diets, especially low-fat varieties, may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a ...

Older adults with diabetes in managed care networks have higher ...
Medical News Today - UK
USA - Medicare beneficiaries at high risk for eye disease due to diabetes are more likely to have unrecognized and untreated eye disease if they are enrolled ...

Diabetes medication pioglitazone HCl may significantly improve ...
Medical News Today - UK
Study results published in the May 17th issue of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, found that the diabetes medication pioglitazone ...

ICMR-WHO to issue booklet on diabetes
Newindpress - Chennai,India
CHENNAI: In a few days time, doctors across India can answer each query on diabetes by simply referring to a small booklet. The ...

Want to Avoid Diabetes? Eat Dairy!
Ivanhoe - USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Eating low-fat dairy products like skim milk and yogurt can significantly reduce your risk of getting diabetes, shows a new study based ...

Lower pay, less referrals contribute to endocrinologist shortage
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
BY BOB LAMENDOLA. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - At a time when fast-growing diabetes and obesity rates are eroding the nation's health, doctors who specialize ...

Low Cholesterol? Don't Brag Quite Yet
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... And people who are insulin-resistant, endocrinologists say, are also at high risk for heart disease and diabetes, as well as other illnesses like fatty liver ...

Roundup: Milk And Diabetes; Stop Snoring
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Men who increased their dairy intake by one serving a day had a 9 percent lower risk of getting type 2 diabetes, according to a study at Massachusetts General ...

Diabetes: The Straight Facts
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By by Susan Burke MS, RD, LD/N, CDE. Diabetes is at least three different diseases with the same name. The common denominator for ...

Team diabetes: Internists say it takes a group to manage diabetes
American Medical News - USA
When it comes to diabetes care, primary care physicians no longer are being asked to shoulder the burden alone. In recognition of ...

Is Depression Derailing Your Diabetes?
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By Christine Miller, MS, RD/LD, CDE. If you haven't already noticed, the demands of living with diabetes can be overwhelming at times. ...

Metabolic Syndrome - 'The Costliest Condition You've Never Heard ...
Medical News Today - UK
... "Metabolic syndrome, and its components -- diabetes and pre-diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and abnormal lipids -- will likely become the major public health ...

People with Diabetes Consider Xenotransplantation
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
If xenotransplantation - animal-to-human transplantation - were to offer a person with Type one diabetes a life without insulin dependency - would that make it ...

An ANSwer to diabetes
Hindu Business Line - India
... and scientists, has come up with this piece of equipment that can help doctors achieve those two aims above, at least in the area of treating diabetes. ...

Moneta man found in Culpeper
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
... He was taken to the hospital, where doctors determined that Rucker, who suffers from heart problems and diabetes, had suffered health problems after missing ...

Metabolic syndrome, US top five health problems
DCEAlumni.com - Gurgaon,India
Americans with metabolic syndrome a condition marked by big waistlines, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol problems account for $4 of every $10 ...

Authorities charge wife in man's death from insulin overdose
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... room chair of the couple's home. He died nine days later from an abnormally high insulin level. In interviews with the newspaper ...

Drug rivals to vie for share of inhaled-insulin market
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... drug manufacturers hope to make living with diabetes a little easier -- not to mention capitalize on a potential $3 billion market -- by taking insulin out of ...

Doctor's orders
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... They are one and the same entity and they produce the same beneficial effect on health -- the reduction of insulin.". Along with ...

Costly, but seen as hope for patients wary of injections
MarketWatch - USA
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- A handful of drug manufacturers hope to make living with diabetes a little easier -- not to mention capitalize on a potential $3 ...

Barriers deter diabetes awareness
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... Francisco Bay Area, told a crowd of nearly 100 on Friday that it's important to break down cultural barriers in getting the word out ...

Keryx Reports Positive Phase II Results In Diabetic Neuropathy
BioWorld Online (subscription) - USA
By Randall Osborne. With plans under way for pivotal trials with its oral heparinoid for diabetic neuropathy, KRX-101, Keryx Pharmaceuticals Inc. ...

News for Week #18 2005

Non-injectable insulin debuts in Ecuador
in-PharmaTechnologist - Montpellier,France
... a march on its larger rivals in the pharmaceutical industry by winning regulatory approval for the world's first non-injectable insulin formulation, reports ...

A Look at Trends in Metabolic Syndrome
ABC News - USA
... treating metabolic syndrome. WHAT IT IS: A disorder in which the body no longer uses insulin efficiently. People with metabolic ...

Study: Metabolic syndrome brings big costs
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
TRENTON, NJ -- Americans with metabolic syndrome - a condition marked by big waistlines, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol problems - account for ...

A look at trends in metabolic syndrome
MLive.com - MI,USA
(AP) -- SURGING SYNDROME: New figures show that $4 of every $10 spent on prescriptions for American adults is going toward treating metabolic syndrome. ...

How did diabetic mum die?
ic SouthLondon.co.uk - Reigate,Surrey,UK
... swelled up. But the diabetic kidney patient developed severe breathing problems and her brain became starved of oxygen. Southwark ...

Diabetic walks the talk
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
... I ran out of insurance. Diabetic testing equipment is expensive.". Mandell is the executive director of the Florida-based, Defeat Diabetes Foundation. ...

May is Older Americans Month & Foot Efx Has Big Plans
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Stores will be holding educational seminars on such topics as why foot care is important as we grow older, diabetic foot care, and what is a "good" shoe? ...

Internet may help prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with ...
News-Medical.net - World
... study to determine if early screening using a special camera and images transmitted over the Internet can prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with diabetes. ...

Barriers deter diabetes awareness
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... Francisco Bay Area, told a crowd of nearly 100 on Friday that it's important to break down cultural barriers in getting the word out about diabetes and its ...

Nasal Insulin Spray Goes Into Final Trial
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
An insulin nasal spray for diabetics that puts an end to painful injections will hit the Korean market as early as 2007. Korea's ...

Macugen(R) (pegaptanib sodium injection) Studied in Treatment of ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Improvement in diabetic retinopathy score noted in review of retinal photographs Phase 2/3 studies will examine potential role of Macugen in both diabetic ...

Jailer reaches plea agreement in '02 death of diabetic inmate
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
(CHARLOTTE) - A Cherokee County jailer charged with involuntary manslaughter after a diabetic inmate died in her care took a plea agreement to avoid prison. ...

Sangamo BioSciences Initiates Clinical Trial for Novel Therapy for ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... The multi-center study is designed to evaluate clinical safety of SB-509 in diabetics with mild to moderate diabetic peripheral sensory motor neuropathy in the ...

PointSouth: David Templeton / Ignore your murderous roommate and ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... I've been a Type I diabetic for almost 39 years. ... Requiring only one prescribed drug heading into my fifth decade as a diabetic will be a major accomplishment. ...

Nurses to be allowed to give patients follow-up treatment
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
... Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said yesterday that the move, to be implemented within six months, would involve diabetic patients and those suffering ...

Hormone disorder ups heart risks
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
... in Richmond, says it less well recognized that PCOS is also associated with a cluster of heart disease and diabetes risk factors known as the metabolic syndrome ...

Investigating the effect of plant extracts on metabolic syndrome
Medical News Today - UK
... NIH) will enable Rutgers plant scientists to collaborate with Pennington researchers in forming the NIH Center for Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome, one of ...

KineMed, Inc. Announces Presentation at the Targeting Metabolic ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... and advanced medical diagnostics company announced today that it will be presenting at IBC Life Sciences' Targeting Metabolic Syndrome Conference: Exploring ...

Metabolic Syndrome
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
I have been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. What diet ... disease. In the case of metabolic syndrome, the symptoms include: Metabolic ...

Keryx Announces Positive Interim Results From Phase 2 Clinical ...
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... An exploratory, randomized, double-blind, multiple dose study of KRX-101 (sulodexide gelcaps) for the treatment of type 2 diabetic nephropathy patients with ...

Boy gets help for diabetic dad
Bedford Minuteman - Concord,MA,USA
Lost and confused somewhere between home and diabetic shock, Steve Vellucci had to rely on the help of his young son to see him through his dilemma. ...

Working For A Cure
Great Falls Connection - VA,USA
... The number comes onto the digital screen, which will let them know how much insulin she'll need to start the day. THROUGHOUT THE ...

Flexible Insulin Therapy Works for Preschoolers Too
Ivanhoe - USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A more flexible form of insulin therapy shown to work well for older children and adolescents gets the job done for younger kids as well ...

The feed zone - Eating before training
VeloNews - Boulder,CO,USA
... Eating carbohydrate 3 to 4 hours before training does elevate blood insulin levels and favor the use of carbohydrate as a fuel. ...

Teaching kids to handle diabetes
Ludhiana Newsline - Ludhiana,India
... The children and parents are educated to monitor the blood sugar levels, insulin injection techniques, storage of medicines and insulin and the diet ...

Fat could lead to liver disease, study shows
Marshfield News Herald - Marshfield,WI,USA
... According to researchers, metabolic syndrome is a combination of problems, including high body weight, high blood pressure, high insulin levels and abnormal ...

Forum: Act locally to combat diabetes
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
The best way to turn the tide on the diabetes epidemic is to attack the disease locally, according to experts at a forum in Watsonville on Friday ...

Costly, but seen as hope for patients wary of injections
MarketWatch - USA
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- A handful of drug manufacturers hope to make living with diabetes a little easier -- not to mention capitalize on a potential $3 ...

Return rejuvenates Simmons
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... After starting all 16 games but failing to live up to anyone's expectations due to a bout with diabetes in 2003 -- Simmons had discovered he was so afflicted ...

Innovative Cardiovascular, Oncology, Diabetes and Surgical ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... in the high-growth market segments of cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment, cancer detection and treatment, orthopedics, diabetes and wound management ...

Big Bellies, Related Ills Have Big Costs
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
TRENTON, NJ -- Americans with metabolic syndrome _ a condition marked by big waistlines, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol problems _ account for ...

New Research Study Evaluating Hispanic Patients With Diabetes ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
MIAMI, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from a study presented today at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Diabetes Translation Conference indicate ...

Senate moves to address obesity and diabetes fears
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Child obesity and diabetes are out of control and current trends will create 30 million obese or overweight Texans by 2040, Sen. ...

PointSouth: David Templeton / Ignore your murderous roommate and ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Living with diabetes means having a murderer as a roommate. ... I was diagnosed with diabetes Nov. 1, 1966, at age 11. ...

Juvenile diabetes symptoms getting harder for parents to spot
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
Diabetes cases are on the rise here in the Valley, especially among young children. ... But she's not just like other kids her age. Sonja has type one diabetes. ...

Generex Biotechnology Prepares For 2005 Product Launch
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... for first-ever commercial distribution of alternative-delivery insulin Oral-lyn(TM) offers dramatic new paradigm for the treatment of diabetes TORONTO, May 5 ...

Working For A Cure
Great Falls Connection - VA,USA
... After a series of tests, Natalie was diagnosed with Type I, or Juvenile Onset, diabetes. ... There are days when she wishes her diabetes would go away. ...

Assembly of First Nations National Chief leads by example in the ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
OTTAWA, May 5 /CNW Telbec/ - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine will mark the 7th annual National Aboriginal Diabetes Awareness Day by ...

Media Advisory - Diabetes prevention conference for people of ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... Sponsored by the African Caribbean Diabetes Prevention Program, the conference features keynote speaker Dr. Patricia Rodney, Director, Master of Public Health ...

American Diabetes Association and Entelos Develop Computer Model ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
and FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Entelos, Inc. announced today the successful ...

Diet to lower heart disease risk for type 2 diabetes
MedIndia - India
... the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and increase the good cholesterol called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes ...

Pizza's have an adverse effect on diabetics
Hindustan Times - Delhi,India
A Penn State Diabetes Centre study suggests a slow and steady insulin-dosing pattern may best combat the glucose-raising effects of that common favourite food. ...

Diseases cut life expectancy for US kids
Hindustan Times - Delhi,India
... Children are increasingly suffering from a range of neurobehavioral disturbances, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and other diseases. ...

Exenatide Approved for Type 2 Diabetes: An Expert Interview...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
... Drug Administration (FDA) had approved exenatide injection (Byetta) as adjunctive therapy to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes who have ...

Teaching kids to handle diabetes
Ludhiana Newsline - Ludhiana,India
Ludhiana, May 4: IT is often seen that patients who get diabetes at an early age find it unbearable to cope with the stress of having the disease and tend to ...

Biotech Holdings Signs Agreement for Internet Sales of Sucanon ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... Sucanon will be sold by Arkon for personal use only, to persons confirming that they suffer from symptoms of joType II Diabetes. ...

Joslin Diabetes Center Scientist Elected to National Academy of ...
AScribe - USA
BOSTON, May 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Christophe O. Benoist, MD, Ph.D., Co-Head of the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics at Joslin Diabetes Center, has ...

Faces of Diabetes: Taylor Holland
Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic - Poplar Bluff,MO,USA
Taylor Holland, 11, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 4. Last year, after several hospitalizations, seizures and other complications, the ...

Tea can treat Diabetes
Pakistan Times - Pakistan
TEA might prevent diabetes and its ensuing complications, including cataracts, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton suggests. ...

Clinton Takes on Childhood Obesity
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... Estimates are that 16 percent of US children are obese, making them susceptible to such life-threatening illnesses as heart disease and diabetes. ...

Diabetes appears to rob women of usual advantage in heart disease ...
News-Medical.net - World
For men, a heart attack increases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease more than diabetes does, but for women, diabetes is sometimes the greater threat ...

Fat weighs down US children, sez Bubba
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... "You have the onset of adult diabetes in children now, plainly because of their eating habits, aggravated by the lack of exercise.". ...

PedMed: The good, the bad and the unknown
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... In addition to a range of neurobehavioral disturbances, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and other formerly adults-only disorders are spilling over into ...

Dissecting diabetes
Newindpress - Chennai,India
... More and more people in India require insulin to control their blood sugar levels and to prevent diabetic complications, as the incidence of diabetes is on the ...

ConjuChem to make oral presentation at American Diabetes ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
(TSX: CJC) today announced that it has been invited by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to expand its clinical poster presentation of the data from its ...

Diabetic foot wounds lead to 80,000 amputations every year; most ...
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
Loss of sensation in the limbs, especially the feet, is one of the more common complications of diabetes. Because they cannot feel ...

Diabetic shock cited in shooting
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... officers shot and killed a retired corrections officer who pointed a handgun at them after his wife called 911 to get help for his bout with diabetic shock. ...

Generex Biotechnology Announces First Regulatory Approval to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... Corporation (Nasdaq: GNBT), a leader in the area of buccal drug delivery, announced today that Oral-lyn(TM), its proprietary oral insulin spray formulation ...

MEDirect Latino Inc. to Expand Existing Medicare Diabetic ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Currently the Company distributes diabetic testing products to customers in the United States and in 37 of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities. ...

Diabetes control crucial after heart attack
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with type 2 diabetes who suffer a heart attack, keeping their blood sugar levels under control has a lot to do with how ...

Dealing with Diabetes
Jacksonville Daily News - Jacksonville,NC,USA
... approval. Byetta, the companies say, will essentially boost the effectiveness of traditional treatments for Type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately ...

Study on 'apple-shaped' women explains heart risk
Reuters -WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who develop thick waists and high cholesterol at menopause may be at higher risk of heart disease because they also have more damage to their arteries, U.S. researchers reported on Monday...
 

Diabetic shock cited in shooting
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... The incident began just after 4 am Sunday, when Clark's wife, Nancy, called 911 to report that her husband was suffering from a diabetes-induced blood- sugar ...

She's driven to succeed in stem-cell work
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... professor at Harvard Medical School, Wagers recently received two prestigious grants to pursue her research work at the Joslin Diabetes Center, including ...

Impact of MI, Diabetes on Overall Health Differs Between the Sexes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 02 - In men myocardial infarction increases the risk of death from heart disease more so than diabetes, but in women diabetes is ...

Fiber's dual effect wards off heart disease in diabetics
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
... at the American Heart Association conference indicates that fiber supplements have a dual effect on cholesterol levels in type-2 diabetes patients, lowing ...

STANFORD RESEARCH MAKES STRIDES IN CURE FOR DIABETES
KPIX-TV 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Stanford University researchers may have gotten one step closer to finding a cure for diabetes, according to university spokeswoman Amy Adams. ...

Obesity costs loom for workers
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
... "The people who should be working in the work force are going to be sitting in the hospital with their heart attacks, their strokes, their diabetes.'. ...

FDA gives go-ahead for new diabetes treatment
News-Medical.net - World
Sufferers from adult-onset diabetes, the most common form of the disease, will soon be able to access a new injectable diabetes treatment which when used with ...

CDC Efforts to Reduce or Prevent Obesity
Medical News Today - UK
... Among these are heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer (such as colon cancer, endometrial cancer, and postmenopausal breast cancer) and osteoarthritis. ...

Doctors present diabetes findings on supplements
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... DC Fuqua said the cholesterol findings, plus the supplement's effects on blood sugar, will be presented at the American Diabetes Association's conference in ...

Doctors present diabetes findings on supplements
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... DC Fuqua said the cholesterol findings, plus the supplement's effects on blood sugar, will be presented at the American Diabetes Association's conference in ...

Diabetes: A tribal epidemic
Native Times - USA
... Diabetes Association defines diabetes as a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting in defects in insulin production, insulin ...

MONDAY MIDDAY NEWS ROUNDUP
KPIX-TV 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Researchers were able to transform stem cells from the brain into insulin-producing cells that can mimic those cells missing from people suffering from diabetes ...

Mini-meals or three squares a day?
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - CA,USA
... rising, although there's evidence to suggest that consuming food within an hour or so of waking helps keep blood sugar levels even, insulin production steady ...

Green Tea Promotes Healthy Blood Sugar and Decreases "The Fat ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... This benefit of green tea decreases the excessive output of the blood sugar regulating hormone insulin, which minimizes fat storage and increases weight loss. ...

FDA permits Amylin for new diabetes treatment
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
Patients with adult-onset diabetes who can't control their blood sugar with pills alone can use insulin injectios which must be carefully worked out to avoid ...

Nutrition Notes: Grazing Versus Three Regular Meals
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... In the recent study of obese and lean women, pre-breakfast insulin levels were unaffected by either meal pattern, but insulin levels rose less after eating ...

The Riddle of Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
... Insulin is the hormone released from the pancreas in response to eating carbohydrate, or when your body calls on reserves stored in muscles and the liver. ...

Nanoparticle inhaler research
ic Wales - Cardiff,UK
... School of Pharmacy, at Cardiff University, is developing new nanoparticle formulations for inhalers to improve how proteins - such as insulin - are delivered ...

Lipoprotein abnormalities found in severely obese children
Medical News Today - UK
Severely obese children have lipoprotein profiles that signal early risk of cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome, according to a study presented ...

‘We are targeting 8-10% human insulin market share in the ...
Financial Express - Bombay,India
The company, which has decided to focus on research as a driver in the new patent regime, is working among others on an oral insulin product. ...

News for Week #17 2005

Health Highlights: April 30, 2005
ABC News - USA
... first among a new class of diabetes drugs called incretin mimetics -- synthetic medications that mimic action of a hormone that spurs insulin production after ...

Insulin Death Case
KWWL - Waterloo,IA,USA
(AP) A judge has ruled that a confession by a woman charged in the insulin-related death of her husband can be used at trial. 37 ...

Study: Lipoplasty in Obese Women with Coronary and Insulin Action ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
NEW YORK, April 29 /US Newswire/ -- Surgical procedures to reduce fat do not have the health benefits of diet and exercise, finds a study that will be ...

University Seeks Diabetes Sufferers for Study
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Teenagers with diabetes are being urged to take part in a new study organised by researchers at the University of the West of England. ...

Late Bedtime + Early Alarm = Diabetes
WebMD - USA
April 29, 2005 -- Late to bed and early to rise does more than put black circles under your eyes -- it increases your risk of diabetes. ...

Girl, 2, Saves Dad from Diabetic Coma
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
By Tim Walsh, PA. A two-year-old girl saved her diabetic father from slipping into a coma by feeding him sugar as he lay unconscious. ...

MORT CRIM: Diabetic comedian finds humor heals life's hurts
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
BY MORT CRIM. More than 13 million people in the United States are living with diabetes. Many people assume this simply means monitoring ...

Palm Beach Capital Partners Announces Divestiture of Access ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2005--Palm Beach Capital Partners, LLC today announced the sale of its equity position in Access Diabetic Supply, LLC ...

AJEH forays into research, training and social service
Express Pharma Pulse - Mumbai,India
... In order to prevent blindness due to diabetic retinopathy, AJEH Pvt Ltd is also going to conduct a diabetic retinopathy project in collaboration with Rotary ...

Brain Power Creates Insulin
Wired News - USA
Scientists at Stanford have coaxed neurons from fetal brains to become cells that produce insulin. The cells aren't ready for human ...

Insmed Initiates Phase II Trial With SomatoKine(R) in Type A ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... with Type A insulin resistance who develop frank diabetes require large doses (>200 units/day) of subcutaneous insulin, oral hypoglycemic agents and insulin ...

Neural cells may help with insulin
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Woman cured of diabetes via transplant (April 19, 2005) -- A Japanese woman has been cured of diabetes via a donor transplant of insulin-producing cells from ...

Melanin concentrating hormone induces insulin resistance through a ...
Journal of Endocrinology
... to MCH (MCH-ASO). MCH promoted an increase in blood glucose and a decrease in blood insulin levels during a GTT. MCH also caused ...

Healthy gains for black runners
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... As a child, he was diagnosed with a pre-diabetic condition and told he'd be taking insulin by the time he was 20. To keep it at bay, he ran. ...

Diabetes Blog Archives
About Diabetes - USA
Fiber supplements may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a new study. ...

Lung Health Woes Might be Linked to Diabetes
PH Neighborhood - Lake Mary,FL,USA
by John C. Martin. People with pulmonary health problems may face a higher risk of developing diabetes, according to a government study released late last year. ...

The Impact of Diabetes on Hospital Admissions, Length of Stay, and ...
AEM (subscription) - USA
Objectives: To assess whether diabetes (DM), types 1 and 2, was associated with hospital admission rate (ADM), length of stay (LOS), and mortality (MORT) for ...

New hope: A 'cure' for diabetes.
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
FOR THE 18.2 million Americans who have diabetes, finding a cure means hope that the worst-case-scenario effects of the disease--heart attack, stroke, blindness ...

Health Attitudes Survey Reveals Diabetes Diagnosis Can Have Hidden ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Conducted by the Group's NCERx healthcare division, the initial diabetes survey is part of a 2 year, disease-specific, longitudinal study covering 70 ...

American Diabetes Association Calls on Congress to Reject ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Cover the Uninsured Week Highlights Association's Fight for Americans With Diabetes to Receive Health Insurance That is Available, Affordable, and Adequate ...

An alphabet soup of nutrition
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... RDs and other health care professionals who have a minimum of 1,000 hours' of diabetes self-management training, employment as a diabetes educator, and ...

American Diabetes Association Announces Islet Cell Summit ...
Medical News Today - UK
The American Diabetes Association Research Foundation announced today its first ever Islet Cell Summit, taking place in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, April 8th. ...

ConjuChem to make oral presentation at American Diabetes ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
(TSX: CJC) today announced that it has been invited by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to expand its clinical poster presentation of the data from its ...

Diabetic foot wounds lead to 80,000 amputations every year; most ...
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
Loss of sensation in the limbs, especially the feet, is one of the more common complications of diabetes. Because they cannot feel ...

U.S. Ad Blitz Dismisses Obesity Threat as 'Hype'
Reuters -LOS ANGELES
...a group backed by the U.S. food and restaurant industries on Monday launched an advertising campaign aimed at dismissing as hype concerns about the large number of obese Americans ...

Sleep disturbances linked to metabolic syndrome
Xagena.it - Italy
... sleep patterns, particularly when combined with a high-fat diet, are associated with excessive weight gain and the onset of metabolic syndrome in some people. ...

Time we eat an obesity factor?
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
... a mouse with a mutant ‘clock' gene and therefore an imprecise body clock - had metabolic problems, including obesity and signs of the metabolic syndrome. ...

Islet Cell Transplant Can Eliminate Need For Insulin
KSDK - St. Louis,MO,USA
It's a dream come true for type-one diabetics-- the promise of an end to daily insulin injections and blood sugar monitoring. ... Now they make insulin. ...

'Snorting insulin safe and effective'
Independent Online - South Africa
Diabetics in Europe could soon be using inhaled insulin rather than injections, as test results show it is safe and effective in controlling blood sugar levels ...

Media Invitation - Canada's First Freestanding Pediatric Insulin ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... Off Party will Inaugurate the Opening MONTREAL, April 25 /CNW Telbec/ - The Montreal Children's Hospital opens Canada's first Pediatric Insulin Pump Centre. ...

Bentley Pharmaceuticals and Dong Sung Pharmaceuticals Enter into a ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Co. Ltd. for the development of an intranasal spray formulation of insulin for the South Korean market and possibly additional territories. ...

Promoting healthier lives
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... Doctors told him that by age 20 he would probably have to take insulin. ... He has yet to take insulin. Now he's hoping to help other African-Americans. ...

Metabolic Syndrome
50 Connect - UK
Both of these disorders, however, are just the tip of the iceberg, being just two manifestations of the Metabolic Syndrome which has been suggested to affect 25 ...

Enlarged waist + elevated triglycerides = heart, stroke risks for ...
News-Medical.net - World
... triglycerides (EWET) are two of five risk factors that the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) uses to characterize the metabolic syndrome (MS). ...

A Healthy Internal Clock Keeps Weight Off
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... or more over several years is the major contributor to progression of risk factors for heart disease and development of metabolic syndrome, while maintaining a ...

LIFELONG HEALTH : Joslin Clinic alters attack on raging Type 2 ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... How does weight link to diabetes risk? Everyone who is significantly overweight develops a condition called insulin resistance. ...

Choosing life for Sydney
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... family. At four months, I went on insulin for the diabetes. It was well controlled, though the insulin did make me itch a little. ...

Doctors Return Islet Cells After Removing Organ
Medical News Today - UK
... at only two other centers in the US, doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on Tuesday returned a patient's own insulin-producing cells to ...

County sees diabetes cases soar
Shropshire Star - Telford,England,UK
... 15,703 this year. And in the 14 months to January alone, the number of patients with diabetes increased by 2,200. Now health bosses ...

UAB team transplants pancreas cells
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
... Vickers, Devin E. Eckhoff and Juan L. Contreras first removed Stewart's pancreas, a gland that produces digestive enzymes and contains insulin-producing islet ...

Excerpts of recent editorials from Indiana
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
... heavily toward unsubstantiated allegations that she was dirty, denied medical care, beaten and that her husband was trying to kill her with insulin injections. ...

Location Of Body Fat Associated With Cardiovascular Risk In Older ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
CHICAGO -- The distribution of body fat in older men and women is associated with metabolic syndrome, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes ...

Abdominal obesity, triglycerides linked to risk for women
Heart Center Online - USA
The study compared women with enlarge waistlines and elevated triglycerides (EWET) versus women with metabolic syndrome and healthy women. ...

Are you diabetic?
Sun Star - Philippines
... Diagnosed more than two decades ago, Valenciano - who has juvenile diabetes - injects himself with insulin, watches what he eats, and checks the sugar level in ...

Stretch your resolve
Hindu Business Line - India
... The presence of glucose in the blood stimulates the pancreas, a six-inch organ behind the stomach, to release the hormone insulin. ...

RARE SURGERY TO REMOVE PANCREAS, PREVENT DIABETES
Newswise (press release) - USA
... only at select centers in the US, doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on Tuesday returned a patient's own insulin-producing cells to him ...

Children participate in study of diabetes, race
Scripps Howard News Service - USA
... Diabetes is an increasingly common condition in which the body does not control the amount of sugar, or glucose, in the blood through insulin. ...

Going the distance makes a difference
The Green Bay News-Chronicle - Green Bay,WI,USA
... Just three years ago, at the age of 24, he found out he has Type 1 diabetes, which means his body doesn't produce insulin, a hormone that allows blood sugar to ...

Mother Frees Daughter From Diabetes
FOX News - USA
... Ending those hypoglycemic episodes was the operation's main goal, say Matsumoto and ... Insulin-producing cells -- called islet cells -- were transplanted to her ...

New transplant allows local diabetic to get rid of insulin shots
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Annie Anderson was born with a pancreas that does not make the insulin she needs to live. ... "It's hard to believe that I'm free off insulin. ...

FDA nod sought for oral insulin
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Bangalore, April 20: Biocon Ltd will seek the United States' FDA approval in December for its oral insulin. The clinical trials ...

Inhaled insulin could soon be a reality
Medical News Today - UK
Results published today show that inhaled insulin could soon become a reality. This could potentially mean an end to insulin injections ...

Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to Present Results of Initial Phase ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... the "Company"), today announced that it has recently completed its data analysis of its Phase II clinical trial in Ireland of its proprietary intranasal insulin ...

Tewksbury man who resold prescription drugs sentenced to prison
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... He was asked by a former co-worker, Grace Dube, to sell insulin to a pharmacist in New Jersey, prosecutors said. Between August ...

Study Shows Genes Predict How Well Diabetes Drug Will Work
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- How well a person with type 2 diabetes responds to a diabetes drug may well depend upon his or her genetic make-up ...

Brain stem cells to cure diabetes
BBC News - UK
They were able to coax the immature brain cells to develop into the insulin-producing islet cells that are lacking in diabetes. ...

Neural cells may help with insulin
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Woman cured of diabetes via transplant (April 19, 2005) -- A Japanese woman has been cured of diabetes via a donor transplant of insulin-producing cells from ...

Special bank account set up to help ailing Miami officer
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Smith set up a special bank account Monday to raise money to help him pay his medical bills while he undergoes treatment for complications from diabetes and a ...

Diabetic Medical Breakthrough
KWWL - Waterloo,IA,USA
About 150-thousand Iowans have diabetes. Ten percent ... diabetic. Mary Steffensmeier is a diabetes educator with Covenant Medical Center. She ...

New Hope for People with Diabetes, Lupus, Some Forms of Cancer ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
A specially designed, naturally occurring set of regulatory molecules proven effective for diabetes, lupus, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and some forms of cancer ...

Canadian Diabetes Association, UBC partner on funding for ...
Medical News Today - UK
A new partnership announced by the Canadian Diabetes Association and the University of British Columbia (UBC) today will help fund research in childhood ...

Obese kids more prone to diabetes
Times of India - India
CHANDIGARH: Increasing obesity among the children due to faulty eating habits and sedentary life style has made them more prone to diabetes. ...

High-tech diabetes care
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
There's a lot Nicolle see likes about soccer, and it helps her stay healthy. When Nicolle was 6, she was diagnosed with type one diabetes. ...

New Jersey pushes for health-conscious work force
USA Today - USA
... versus the pound of cure for a 78,000-strong work force whose average age is 45, a point in life when the risks for cancer, heart disease and diabetes increase ...

'Nosing' out your diseases
Newindpress - Chennai,India
LONDON: Using an artificial nose now being developed, doctors will soon be able to smell out diseases such as diabetes, liver disease, yellow fever and ...

Diabetes likely to come with other health problems
Bristol Press - Bristol,CT,USA
Diabetes, a disease suffered by 18.2 million Americans, 200,000 of whom live in Connecticut, can be seriously debilitating if left uncared for properly. ...

Obesity sends Type 2 diabetes rates in children soaring
News-Medical.net - World
Research results revealed at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference, show 22 children under 16 have Type 2 diabetes in East London alone. ...

Late nights are chancy
Money Plans - Mumbai,India
... revealed that unhealthy lifestyle, irregular sleeping hours and poor eating habits locate people at greater risk of heart disease and diabetes because their ...

Could diabetes drug prevent cancer?
News-Medical.net - World
A well known drug which is commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes may prevent cancer tumours, according to researchers at the University of Dundee. ...

Acupuncturist offers another approach to arthritis & diabetes?
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
... River was speaking before nine participants, all over the age of 50, in her Complementary Medicine Approaches to Arthritis and Diabetes class for the Gold Leaf ...

70 per cent of leg amputations done due to diabetes: experts
Navhind Times - Panjim,India
UNI Chennai April 22: Every 30 seconds a leg was lost due to diabetes in the world and 70 per cent of all leg amputations were done on people with diabetes ...

'Living with diabetes is about being on constant watch'
Vancouver Province (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... surprising. Since I've been with my fiance, a Type 1 diabetic, I see how much living with diabetes is about being on constant watch. ...

NYHQ Highlights Information On Diabetes In Asian-Americans
Queens Chronicle - Rego Park,NY,USA
"Since most diabetes research reflects the Caucasian population, it is very important that we investigate cultural differences and contributing factors in ...

Obese children getting diabetes
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
LONDON: Children in the capital as young as nine are being diagnosed with an adult form of diabetes, researchers said yesterday. ...

News for Week #16 2005

Tea can treat diabetes!
Hindustan Times - India
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton suggests that tea might prevent diabetes and its ensuing complications, including cataracts. ...

Experts warn of diabetes time bomb
grampian tv - Aberdeen,Scotland,UK
Diabetes experts are warning a Scottish conference that childhood obesity is a time bomb waiting to happen. It's being claimed soaring ...
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Obesity a National EpidemicScientific Exchange: Achieving the ...
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
WESTBOROUGH, Mass., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- IBC's 3rd Annual Targeting Metabolic Syndrome conference will address the latest scientific and clinical ...

Insmed Initiates Phase II HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Trial With ...
Medical News Today - UK
... With the similarity to metabolic syndrome X, which has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, it is now feared that these side effects ...

Obese nine-year-olds are getting diabetes
This is London - London,England,UK
London children as young as nine are being diagnosed with an adult form of diabetes, researchers said today. The number of under ...

Daughter cured of diabetes via islet transplant from mother
Xinhua - China
... operation to transplant islet cells from a living donor has allowed a 27-year-old Japanese woman to stop daily insulin treatment of her diabetes, according to ...

Inhaled insulin for diabetics breakthrough
Telegraph.co.uk - UK
Researchers in Birmingham, London and Miami have been investigating the use of inhaled insulin for adults with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. ...

World's first recipient of insulin-producing cells from a living ...
News-Medical.net - World
A 27-year-old diabetic woman has become the world's first recipient of insulin-producing cells from a living donor. The successful ...

Edmonton MD helped free woman from insulin shots
Globe and Mail - Canada
A doctor from the University of Edmonton assisted in a ground-breaking transplant surgery of insulin-producing cells that will free a diabetic woman from daily ...

Insulin Resistance May Block Sustained Therapy Response
Hepatitis Neighborhood - Lake Mary,FL,USA
... several reasons why some people may fail to achieve a sustained response to treatment for hepatitis C. Now, a new study suggests that insulin resistance can be ...

Lothian diabetics in overdose risk
Scotsman - UK
HUNDREDS of diabetics in the Lothians have been warned about a fault with an injection system that risks leading to an insulin overdose. ...

Biocon to file application with FDA for oral Insulin trials
Zee News - Noida,India
... Apr 20: Biotech Major Biocon will file an application with the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to begin clinical trials for oral Insulin, which, it says ...

Tewksbury Man Sentenced for Unlawful Sale of Prescription Drugs ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... CATANZANO agreed to sell insulin to Chebli after a conversation CATANZANO had with Dube in August, 2001. Dube asked CATANZANO if ...

Child diabetes time-bomb warning
BBC News - E,UK
The form of diabetes more associated with adults is much higher among children than thought, figures suggest. Research in east London ...

Diabetes Diagnosis Is Traumatic for Parents
WebMD - USA
April 19, 2005 -- A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes is a life-changing event for a child, but it can be more traumatic for the parents than has been fully ...

Diet, Exercise Best for Preventing Pre-Diabetes
ABC News - USA
... Lifestyle changes are more effective than drug treatment in preventing metabolic syndrome, the cluster of disorders that can lead to diabetes and heart disease ...

Transplant news offers hope for diabetes patients
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - USA
In a groundbreaking medical development, Japanese scientists have reversed diabetes in a 27-year-old woman by injecting her with insulin-making cells from her ...

Launch of Dundee Diabetes Research Centre, Scotland
Medical News Today - UK
The diabetes laboratories at the University of Dundee have been awarded Centre status to promote communication amongst the research and clinical groups and to ...

Conjuchem Jumps on Positive Diabetes Drug Results
Metro Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
jumped as much as 13 percent on Tuesday after the company reported additional positive data from its experimental drug, DAC:GLP-1, to treat type-2 diabetes. ...

Diabetes Management Remains Suboptimal Even Academic Centers ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
As countless studies and treatment guidelines attest, preventing heart disease, stroke, and other complications of diabetes requires aggressive management of ...

Cinnamon may be way to combat diabetes
Naples Daily News (subscription) - Naples,FL,USA
According to recent studies, cinnamon (italix)might (end italix) be acting as an insulin substitute in Type 2 diabetes, since it contains a bioactive component ...

New surgical treatment for diabetes sufferers
ABC Online - Australia
... jab of insulin. KAREN BARLOW: The Japanese doctors say they've successfully reversed a 27-year-old woman's diabetes. The woman had ...

World-first transplant frees diabetic
Australian - Australia
A YOUNG diabetic has been freed from the burden of daily insulin injections after becoming the world's first recipient of insulin-producing cells from a living ...

Police inquiry asks: Did officers hurt diabetic?
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... of alcohol or drugs. But it turns out she was having a diabetic attack, Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said Monday. The 30-year-old ...

Diabetic retinopathy cases on the rise
Hindu - India
Bangalore: Diabetic retinopathy is on the rise in the city even as Bangalore is emerging as the "diabetes capital" of India. Termed ...

The unbearable feeling when a child is diagnosed diabetic
ic Wales - UK
PARENTS who make the "traumatic and life-changing" discovery that their child has diabetes may never come to terms with it, according to a new study. ...

The Rediff Interview/Dr A Ramachandran
Rediff - India
The decision to have the World Congress in India was taken by WHO mainly because every fourth diabetic in the world is an Indian. ...

Green and black tea fight diabetes
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Scranton, PA, Apr. 19 (UPI) -- Black tea is as good as green tea in reducing sugar levels and inhibiting cataracts in diabetic mice, researchers said Tuesday. ...

Diabetic Neuropathies
Medscape (subscription) - USA
The diabetic neuropathies are heterogeneous, affecting different parts of the nervous system that present with diverse clinical manifestations. ...

Driver damages several Oneida Street businesses
Green Bay News Chronicle - Green Bay,WI,USA
A driver who officers believe was a diabetic damaged several businesses on Oneida and Willard streets in Ashwaubenon early Monday. ...

State investigates death at East Bay nursing home
Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA
... able man. He could walk, feed himself and, as a diabetic, was getting pretty good at monitoring his own blood-sugar levels. So for ...

PhytoMedical Announces Plans to Bolster Ongoing Scientific ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... "I'm particularly keen on seeing our early-stage scientific efforts move us towards synthesizing compounds that improve the action of insulin, and can be used ...

Generex Biotechnology & University Campus Bio-Medico Announce ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Study shows Oral-lyn(TM) Controls Blood Glucose Levels In Patients With type 1 Insulin Dependent Diabetes TORONTO and ROME, April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall ...

Glucose Testing in Critical Care: Looking to the Lab for Precision ...
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
... Now, a growing body of evidence indicates that tight glucose control ( TGC ) coupled with intensive insulin therapy offers improved post-surgical outcomes in ...

Man, 78, in Court Charged with Wife's Murder
Scotland on Sunday - UK
By James Tapsfield, PA. Dennis Halford is alleged to have injected 76-year-old Natalie with insulin and smothered her with a plastic bag. ...

Drugs targeted at muscle cells can be of use in the treatment of ...
Medical News Today - UK
... is a clinical disease characterised by disruption to the metabolism of glucose and lipids as well as to the production of and physiological reactions to insulin ...

For dear life
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... To forget about needles and insulin. To eat food, and pretend she hadn't done it. ... "Bub, you need insulin to break down food so you can live," she said, flatly. ...

Drug-delivery patch wins big at UW business-plan competition
WTN News - Madison,WI,USA
... Puccinelli, a grad student in biomedical engineering, wrote a plan to develop and market a patch that delivers large-molecule drugs such as insulin over about ...

Diabetes risk rises in Asian-Americans
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
It's a significant risk factor for diabetes among Asian-Americans -- even among those who aren't overweight, said researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in ...

Depomed answers FDA questions about diabetes drug
San Francisco Business Times - San Francisco,CA,USA
... said Wednesday they responded to outstanding questions from regulators about their pending application to sell their Type II diabetes drug Glumetza, a once ...

Depression increases mortality risk in diabetes
Heart Center Online - USA
Apr 18 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new study confirm that people with diabetes are prone to depression. The findings ...

Sucanon Diabetes drug infomercial on Biotech Holdings website
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
... "We believe that the infomercial is an excellent presentation of Sucanon as a drug for reduction of symptoms of Type II Diabetes as well as being informative ...

Tea may help prevent diabetes and cataracts
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... line to the list of benefits from drinking tea: New research in animals suggests that tea may be a simple, inexpensive means of preventing diabetes and its ...

OSI Pharmaceuticals Announces Acquisition of All Minority Interest ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... completed a stock-for-stock exchange resulting in the acquisition of all minority interest shares of the Company's majority-owned UK-based diabetes and obesity ...

For dear life
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... slide effortlessly from wrist to shoulder. That was just before she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. As she climbs the stairs ...

Diabetes drug helps MS sufferers
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
... However, a common diabetes drug could be the latest breakthrough for MS. ... The drug pioglitazone is known to type-2 diabetes patients as actos. ...

State recognizes need for diabetes prevention plan
Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
Half of Texas children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes unless the state changes its prevention strategies, said Department of State Health ...

Exercise And Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
... For some, issues related to health conditions such as diabetes play a major obstacle in their quest for better health. This article ...

10 Best Treats For People With Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By Susan Burke MS, RD, LD/N, CDE. Diabetes is not caused by eating sugar, and if you have diabetes it doesn't mean that you can never eat sugar again. ...

Is It Safe For Someone With Diabetes To Fast?
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
Is it safe for someone with diabetes to fast for 3 days and only drink vegetable juice? several problems with fasting. For anyone ...

Diabetes link to TV viewing
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
THE more television Australians watch, the more likely they are to have high blood sugar levels, putting them at risk of type 2 diabetes, a Berlin conference ...

Non-PI HAART a risk factor for glucose intolerance, finds study in ...
Aidsmap - UK
HIV-positive women with classic risk factors for diabetes, including obesity and a family history of diabetes, should be screened by their HIV care providers ...

Celebrity TV Doctor Apologises for Breaking Marathon Rules
Scotsman - UK
... money. He said he had raised almost £1,000 for Diabetes UK, which he was supporting because his eldest son suffers from diabetes. ...

Watching TV linked to diabetes
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
The more television Australians watch, the more likely they are to have elevated blood sugar levels, putting them at risk of type 2 diabetes, an international ...

Like normal
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... Being a teen with diabetes is harder. ... Add diabetes to the mix, some hormonal changes and you can have erratic and difficult-to-control blood sugar numbers. ...

Top 10 Things to Know About Diabetes Pills
About Diabetes - USA
Diabetes pills don't work for everyone. ... Diabetes pills sometimes stop working after a few months or years. The cause is often unknown. ...

Timely tips for those with diabetes on the go
Vancouver Province (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Did you know that people with diabetes often face higher insurance premiums or outright refusals when they seek private insurance for their travel? ...

A new cure for diabetes on the anvil
Newz.in - India
... Graduate School of Medicine have found that gene therapy can be used to increase insulin gene expression and its production that could be used to treat diabetes ...

Aussie senator on anti-obesity crusade
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
... but he feared this would rise dramatically with 1.5 million Australian children considered overweight or obese, putting them at risk of type 2 diabetes. ...

Fight Diabetes With Proper Exercise, Experts Say
SanDiego Channel.com - San Diego,CA,USA
"A single bout of exercise can help lower your blood sugar for 24 to 72 hours," said Paul Frickman, Exercise Physiologist. First ...

100,000 Scots have diabetes … but don't know it
Sunday Herald - UK
The study, carried out for charity Diabetes UK, shows that around half of Scots with the disease are unaware they are living with the condition. ...

Tri-Cities Minorities Prepare for the Tenn Care Tsunami
Bristol Herald Courier - Bristol,TN,USA
... Health Coalition. A disproportionate number of minorities are at risk for diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Minority leaders ...

'100-cm middles point to diabetes'
Times of India - India
WASHINGTON: A new study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that people with a waistline of one metre or more are at serious risk of insulin ...

Three sentenced in scheme to steal insulin from army.
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
... sentenced to federal prison and a third was placed on probation Friday in what prosecutors said was a scheme to steal $2 million worth of insulin and other ...

Police save Orland man from insulin shock
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA
... Blair, 40, was found to be suffering from an insulin reaction that had rendered him unable to get out of the truck or summon help. ...

21st-Century Kids Take Control Of Diabetes
Click 2 Houston.com - Houston,TX,USA
... "It's hard because you have to remember to check your blood sugar, and you have to remember to give yourself insulin because you sometimes can forget things ...

One-Meter Waistline Predicts High Risk of Diabetes and Heart ...
Medical News Today - UK
People with a waistline of one meter or more are at serious risk of insulin resistance - an early stage in the development of diabetes and heart disease, finds ...

Pot bellies linked to early death
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
... by a "tubby tummy" in combination with two or more of a cluster of conditions including high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, diabetes or diabetic risk ...

Lifestyle study conducts 20-year check-up
ABC Online - Australia
The health of Territorians will be checked over the weekend as part of a 20-year-old study into heart disease and diabetes. About ...

Korle-Bu Medical Block In Crisis
GhanaWeb - Accra,Ghana
... Among the many disorders that the department treats are renal failure, diabetes, obesity and hypertension, which are a risk factor for strokes, heart failure ...

Researchers tackle weight-related Metabolic Syndrome
ABC Online - Australia
... have been telling a meeting of the world's top diabetes experts in Berlin that one in four adult-Australians suffer from weight-related Metabolic Syndrome. ...

Experts step up work against metabolic syndrome with new ...
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
15/04/2005 - International expert agreement on a definition of the metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, will help ...

Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome Growing Problems in China
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise -- Around 18 million adults in China are obese, 137 million are overweight and 64 million have metabolic syndrome-a condition where a number of risk ...

1st Year Results of Rio-Europe Study Published in The Lancet
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... The trial findings also revealed a decrease in the number of patients with metabolic syndrome(i) in the rimonabant 20 mg/day group. ...

In Sweden, healthy living is a science
SWEDEN.SE - Stockholm,Sweden
... When they occur together, however, the risks are multiplied -- leading to a condition called metabolic syndrome. A person's susceptibility ...

News for Week #15 2005

Get the Most Value From Your Diabetes Medicines
WebMD - USA
... For those with type 1 diabetes, controlling blood sugar means taking insulin several times a day. Those with type 2, who make up ...

Entelos & Diabetech Collaborate on Next-Generation Virtual-Loop ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... patient care. This real-time feedback is particularly significant for those patients just beginning insulin therapy. An optional ...

SA foundation grant goes to juvenile diabetes study
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Juvenile, or Type 1, diabetes occurs when the pancreas stops producing insulin, which regulates blood sugar and the delivery of glucose to the body. ...

Type 1 diabetics required for ground-breaking vision study
Medical News Today - UK
... Helena explains: ‘our hope is that our research will help provide a unique insight into diabetes as a whole and the way in which blood sugar control may ...

Scientists unveil stem cell breakthrough
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Scientists have unveiled an Australian-first medical breakthrough in stem cell research which paves the way for innovative diabetes and Parkinson's disease ...

A New Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... Could Help Stop the Cardiovascular Disease Time Bomb BERLIN, April 14 /CNW/ - Early detection and more intensive management of the metabolic syndrome in order ...

C is For Cookie, but P is For Parent and O stands for OBESITY
Blogcritics.org - USA
... ‘…approximately 70 million Americans have a condition called the metabolic syndrome or Syndrome X. The simplest definition of Syndrome X, then, is the ...

Scientists use transcription factors to increase insulin ...
Medical News Today - UK
A group of Japanese scientists has used gene therapy to deliver three insulin transcription factors, MafA, PDX-1, and NeuroD, to the livers of diabetic mice. ...

Liver designed to enhance glucose tolerance, insulin response
Xinhua - China
... LOS ANGELES, April 12 (Xinhuanet) -- US researchers said Tuesday they have created a mouse with improved glucose tolerance and insulin activity in the liver. ...

Insmed to get fast SomatoKine FDA review
BusinessWeek - USA
... The treatment is a combination of insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3. The company is looking for an indication to ...

Carr takes personal battle public
Houston Chronicle - USA
... when his body, trying to fight off a common cold, produced antibodies that unknowingly attacked his pancreas and stopped producing insulin, although not ...

Even A Little Fat In Certain Places May Be Risky
Turn to 10.com - Providence,RI,USA
... experts say people cannot target weight loss, researchers have linked the distribution of body fat in older men and women with metabolic syndrome, a risk ...

Science and Your Health
Newsweek - USA
... fat--which is found in the deeper tissues and around the body's organs rather than just under the skin--was associated with metabolic syndrome, a group of ...

Study: Fat location risk factor in disease
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
Researchers examined 3,000 patients and found even those with a healthy weight were at a higher risk for metabolic syndrome when they carried their fat around ...

April 13 HealthLink briefs
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
Pittsburgh researchers found healthy-weight people were at higher risk for metabolic syndrome when they carried their fat around the waist and thighs. ...

Health News Briefs
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA
... Metabolic syndrome puts people at risk for heart disease and diabetes. Symptoms of metabolic syndrome include high blood pressure ...

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, La Clinica Del Pueblo Launch ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... BlueCross BlueShield and Washington DC-based La Clinica del Pueblo will launch a program to improve the care of Latinos with diabetes through innovative home ...

Bitter diagnosis
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
The bitter one, Type 1, or juvenile diabetes, means a lifetime of insulin dependence. ... Of those, 95 percent have Type 2 diabetes. ...

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare to Promote Benefit of Weight ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... label change, based on the landmark four-year XENDOS study, indicating that weight loss with Xenical reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in obese ...

Weight Aside, Abdominal Fat Can Trigger Heart Disease and Diabetes
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
... visceral and intermuscular fat in older adults can lead to metabolic syndrome-risk factors linked to cardiovascular disease and diabetes, researchers here ...

Mouse with designer liver has enhanced glucose tolerance and ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... in the liver, and generated new findings about insulin-signaling in the liver that could prove useful in understanding the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. ...

Twenty-first century kids fight diabetes
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
... And it helps her stay healthy. When Nicolle was six, she was diagnosed with type-one diabetes. ... Nicolle says technology makes having diabetes a little easier. ...

Hypertension, diabetes study seeks subjects
Baltimore Sun - USA
... are collaborating in a five-year study to see whether intensive patient education and physician training can reduce complications of hypertension and diabetes. ...

Here's the lowdown on no-sugar sweeteners
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... My son has diabetes. ... It has 16 calories and 5 grams of carbohydrates per teaspoon. Even people with diabetes can eat small amounts of sugar-containing foods. ...

Software glitch causes Animas to recall insulin pump
Philadelphia Business Journal - Philadelphia,PA,USA
announced it is voluntarily recalling about 2,000 of its newly released IR 1250 insulin infusion pumps because of a recently identified software bug related to ...

Researcher grows new insulin-secreting beta cells from pancreatic ...
News-Medical.net - World
JDRF-funded researchers in Canada and Massachusetts have stimulated the birth of new insulin-secreting beta cells by treating human islets with a mixture of ...

Breakthrough findings by Umeå researchers link obesity to ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... by Professor Helena Edlund at Umeå University has achieved a breakthrough in our understanding of how obesity causes increased levels of insulin, sugar, and ...

Not a fatal case for lack of insulin registered in Kazakhstan in ...
Kazinform - Astana,Kazakhstan
... The patients are provided completely with the qualified gene-spliced human and analogous insulin. It is known that not a fatal case ...

Mini-Meals, Minnier Me?
Washington Post - USA
... although there's evidence to suggest that consuming food within an hour or so of waking helps keep blood sugar levels even and insulin production steady and ...

Metabolic syndrome to explode among European children
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
Metabolic syndrome is a collection of health conditions, including fat around the waistline, high blood pressure, insulin resistance and low HDL cholesterol ...

Somerville Landscaper Runs for Diabetes
Somerville News - Somerville,MA,USA
Every night after dinner Jason Hellendrung administers a shot of insulin into his stomach--the same stomach he is counting on to sustain him for the 26.2 ...

Location of Body Fat Associated With Cardiovascular Risk in Older ...
Medical News Today - UK
The distribution of body fat in older men and women is associated with metabolic syndrome, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, even in ...

Hidden Fat Could Mean Heart Disease Risk
WebMD - USA
... can have fat folded deep inside their belly, raising their risk of heart disease and diabetes from a condition called metabolic syndrome.metabolic syndrome. ...

Jiggly thighs beat out bellies
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Where adults carry their fat, rather than how much of it they have, might be a better indicator of their risk for metabolic syndrome, which causes heart disease ...

Women with polycystic ovaries have increased heart risk
HealthandAge.com
... Forty six of them also had metabolic syndrome - a clustering of risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. ...

Research news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... cholesterol. This is among the first studies of college-aged students on weight and a condition known as the metabolic syndrome. ...

Fat May Promote Inflammation, New Study Suggests (Press Release)
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
... Women in this age group are at increased risk for metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms that increases the risk for heart disease. ...

Diabetes and Waist Size
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
... Christine, health professionals already identify excessive fat tissue in and around the abdomen as one of the common factors associated with metabolic syndrome ...

Kidney damage, heart problems linked
Daily Times - Pakistan
... Researchers in the new study worked with a mouse model of metabolic syndrome, a condition that is increasing in both adults and children and one that also is ...

Chairman of CytRx Metabolic SAB and President of CytRx ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
- * Dr. Michael Czech presents recent results that further validate RIP140 as important target for obesity and Type 2 diabetes drug development* Dr. Mark ...

Diabetes Shoppe Teams Up with Revolutionary New TV Series to Help ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2005--Diabetes Shoppe today announced that it has reached an agreement to provide marketing and advertising ...

Denis wins award for 60-year diabetes fight
NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,Lake District,UK
COURAGE: Denis Rough receives a medal and certificate from Helen Pattie (left) regional manager for Diabetes UK, in recognition of 60 years of coping with the ...

DiObex Licenses Worldwide Rights to Cortisol Inhibitors From ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
DiObex Plans Human Clinical Trials for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- DiObex, Inc., a ...

Disability Tax Credit benefits Canadians with diabetes
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
Parents of children with diabetes to benefit: Canadian Diabetes Association TORONTO, April 11 /CNW/ - Some Canadians who use insulin to manage their diabetes ...

Advancing the Standards of Endocrine Care: AACE Scientific ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... pressing health issues. Over 20 million Americans suffer from diabetes and an additional 41 million have pre-diabetes. Obesity is ...

More on obesity and diabetes
Health24.com - Cape Town,South Africa
Prof Stephen Rössner recently highlighted this issue at a special course for diabetes specialists at the first Regional Congress on Obesity (organised by the ...

Diabetes workshop to focus on women
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
THE Qatar Diabetes Association will soon launch a year-long health education programme for women, officials said yesterday. The ...

Big pants may equal big risk
Houston Chronicle - USA
A quick look at a man's waistband may provide a big clue about his risk for diabetes. In fact, researchers report, the relationship ...

Diabetes and Waist Size
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By Glenn Mueller. Are you at risk for developing type 2 diabetes? The best ... a. man's waist and his overall risk for diabetes. These ...

Sex and Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By Christine Miller, MS, RD/LD, CDE eDiets Diabetes Expert. ... Diabetes itself can directly affect sexuality in both men and women in a number of ways. ...

Diabetes compliance not as simple as A1c
American Medical News - USA
... MD, a family physician in Anderson, Ind., hangs 5-foot by 5-foot color-coded posters in all of his exam rooms to help patients with diabetes improve their ...

Growth Hormone Treatment Improves Symptoms Of Metabolic Disorder?
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... The placebo group did not experience these positive results. "Previous research has shown that obesity is linked to metabolic syndrome, which has several known ...

Diabetes risk rising for Asians
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Asian-Americans tend to develop type-2 diabetes, the kind in which the body doesn't produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin. ...

Control blood sugar with `smart' insulin pumps
Hindu Business Line - India
This is the convenience that the Paradigm 712 insulin pump assures a diabetes patient, besides the promise of better blood sugar control. ...

UC Patent Totals Soar for 11th Year
Daily Nexus - USA
From an insulin pump to a cell sorter, UCSB helped the University of California receive more patents than any other university in the nation for the 11th ...

IGF-I: mediator of fibrosis or carcinogenesis?
AJP-Lung Physiology - USA
IN 1998, ROSENFELD AND OH (9) likened insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) in endocrinology to the elephant in the parable of the blind men and the elephant. ...

What Causes Type 2 Diabetes?
About Diabetes - USA
... weight. Animal studies confirm that poor nourishment of the foetus increases the risk of metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes. ...

Ford, Finkbeiner contend with chronic health issues Diabetes ...
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... heart disease. Mr. Ford, 57, suffers from chronic diabetes and was hospitalized last year with flu-like symptoms. Mr. Finkbeiner ...

David Templeton's Seldom Seen: Ignore a killer and he'll kill you
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Living with diabetes means having a murderer as a roommate. ... I was diagnosed with diabetes Nov. 1, 1966, at age 11. ...

Disease is No. 1 killer in Lenoir County
Kinston Free Press - Kinston,NC,USA
... 1 killer in Lenoir County, Dr.Ambrose Okonkwo said. The incidence of diabetes in the United States is about 5 to 9 percent. ... Diabetes is also the No. ...

Life can be normal with diabetes
Kinston Free Press - Kinston,NC,USA
Jane Phillips was diagnosed with diabetes 15 years ago. ... Phillips', with her doctor's help, can manage her diabetes. Her life is active. ...

Heart disease, diabetes, cancer ... why beer bellies are no ...
Sunday Herald - UK
Doctors and nurses will be told at a major conference that they must target male obesity in the battle against illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and heart ...

LifeScan aims to be tearing strips off the opposition for many ...
Sunday Herald - UK
... LifeScan Scotland, which develops and manufactures products for people with diabetes to monitor their blood glucose levels, employs close to 1500 staff ...

News for Week #14 2005

Isotechnika receives US patent for Insulin resistance diagnostic ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... The Diatest(R), a 13C glucose breath test, provides both physicians and their patients with an effective means to investigate insulin resistance. ...

Pig cells go the distance for diabetic
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... Nine years later, however, medical tests have proved that thousands of the original 1 million insulin-producing "islet" cells are still in his belly. ...

Swift national action needed to battle Type 2 diabetes
San Jose Mercury News - USA
... The result is an increasing cellular resistance to the effects of insulin, the hormone that enables cells to burn blood sugar for energy. ...

Innodia Inc Advances Lead Drug Candidate for Treatment of Type 2 ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... ID 1101 is an orally active antidiabetic drug candidate with a unique dual mode of action; it increases insulin secretion by the pancreas and decreases ...

Study Finds That Women With PCOS are at Increased Risk for ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
The findings also report that the metabolic syndrome is more prevalent in women with PCOS, and that women with both conditions would exhibit more hormonal and ...

Polfa hopes to inject new life into insulin market
Warsaw Business Journal - Poland
Pharmaceuticals producer Polfa Tarchomin is planning to take over 10% of the domestic insulin market with its new human formula. ...

Camera in a pill offers doctors a look at your inner space
Globe and Mail - Canada
... a smart diagnostic "patch" called the eMosquito that would stick to a diabetic's skin, take periodic blood samples and inject insulin whenever necessary. ...

Pennington Center gets $7.5 M for plant extract research
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
... Pennington scientists will look at metabolic syndrome -- a group of ailments including insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease ...

Etumax Announce Launching Its New Discovery
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
... 9 fractions. F2 and F4 crystalline fractions significantly lower blood sugar and increase plasma insulin levels. So, fractionating ...

Metabolic syndrome comes with clusters of risks
The Japan Times - Japan
The term "metabolic syndrome" may not be on the tip of the collective tongue, so to speak, but it makes sense to at least be aware of the existence of this ...

NIH grant will aid study of plant extracts' impact on health
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... Pennington scientists will look at metabolic syndrome -- a group of ailments including insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease ...

A Cause of Female Infertility May Up Heart Risk
WebMD - USA
... Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. These women have increased rates of metabolic syndrome, they find. "These findings support ...

Plant-based dietary supplements - Scientists to study
Medical News Today - UK
... University), the Botanical Dietary Supplements for Women's Health (University of Illinois at Chicago), Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome (Louisiana State ...

Insulin-sensitizing Drug Cut Diabetes Risk in DPP Participants
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
One of the study's initial goals was to test the insulin-sensitizing drug troglitazone, which was used in the DPP from 1996 until 1998, when researchers halted ...

Insulin beyond reach of many
Baku Sun - Azerbaijan
... hesitate. "A flask of insulin," she replied. ... doses". Much of Azerbaijan's insulin is imported by the pharmaceutical company Novonordix. ...

Ask Dr. D.
Bolton Common - Harvard,MA,USA
... They also drink a lot of water. Why? A. Diabetic animals do not produce enough insulin to maintain normal metabolism and health. ...

HELAYNE WALDMAN
Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA
... The troops in this case come charging out of the pancreas in the form of insulin, which quickly spreads throughout the bloodstream to quell the sugar spike. ...

Editorial: Let The Fun-ding Begin
NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... five centers across the United States as some $30 million was allocated over the next five years, into projects which include metabolic syndrome, age-related ...

Flour power to cut those carbs
Times Online - UK
... French chef's training in four three-star restaurants in France, followed by experience in America, to reduce the toll of the metabolic syndrome, with all ...

Winds of change bring back beans
Australian - Australia
... "What we really we want to be focusing on now is this condition called pre-diabetes (also known as metabolic syndrome) where their (blood glucose) levels aren ...

Diabetic Mom Hopes Surgery Can Cure Son
NBC 11.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Her body would destroy cells which produced insulin. ... Doctors take cells that produce insulin from the pancreas of an organ donor. ...

Top Paying Keywords Shows Webmasters What to Do when Google's ...
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
... For example, in a general web page about health topics, AdSense is currently serving ads for insulin even though only two words in one paragraph relate to ...

Porterville Recorder
Porterville Recorder - Porterville,CA,USA
... "One-third of your children are going to have diabetes ... and you're paying for it.". To change a child's behavior, Kelter said, an adult must change theirs. ...

What Causes Type 2 Diabetes?
About Diabetes - USA
Type 2 diabetes is rising dramatically, with at least 170 million people with diabetes worldwide and a predicted increase to 300 million by 2025. ...

Prevalence of Diabetes set to Increase from 177m worldwide to 370m ...
Medical News Today - UK
A diabetes epidemic is under way. According ... rapidly. The costs involved in the care and management of diabetes are increasing rapidly. ...

Diabetes Ups Urinary Infection Risk in Older Women
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rates of urinary tract infection (UTI) are higher among postmenopausal women with diabetes than among those without diabetes ...

New "Lifestyle" Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes: A Newsmaker ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
April 8, 2005 -- The Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, has issued new guidelines specifically targeting people with ...

21st Century Kids Fight Diabetes
Click 2 Houston.com - Houston,TX,USA
BACKGROUND: Nearly 250,000 children and adolescents in the United States have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which ...

High-risk diabetes in women …Associated with obesity - Physician
Accra Mail - Accra,Ghana
... Arrieta Zulueta, a Cuban general integral physician at the Regional Hospital in Sunyani has said obesity is associated with high-risk diabetes among women in ...

The high cost of living with diabetes
Lindsay This Week - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
... when she was 16 that she had "a rich man's disease." That's because on top of what her husband's insurance plan pays, trying to manage her diabetes still costs ...

Diabetes capital grows in population
Ahmedabad.com - Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
... drives. "Though not life threatening, diabetes patients can live a normal life if they are made aware of its proper treatment. ...

The diabetes challenge - Ignorance, blindness and poorly served ...
Medical News Today - UK
People with diabetes are not being told enough about their condition, some are losing their eyesight unnecessarily and children with the condition are not ...

The Link Between Diabetes And Dry Eye
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
If you have diabetes there is about a 50-50 chance that you have dry eye. Dry eye is characterized by dryness, burning or sandy-gritty ...

Diabetes research brings award for Ulster academic
Belfast Telegraph - UK
By Nigel Gould. An Ulster academic has picked up a prestigious UK scientific prize for his ground-breaking research in the field of diabetes. ...

Diabetes NZ joins call for change at Pharmac
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Diabetes New Zealand has joined with United Future leader, Peter Dunne, and other health advocacy organisations, in calling for changes to Pharmac and improved ...

Diabetes clinic, drug review set
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
Licensed pharmacists and UNC pharmacy students will hold a free public diabetes screening clinic and "brown bag" review of medications today from 9 am to 5 pm ...

Nutrition Guidelines for Diabetes Type 2 Patients, Joslin Diabetes ...
Medical News Today - UK
As Americans' waistlines continue to expand, contributing to a burgeoning epidemic of type 2 diabetes, the scientific jury is in and the verdict is clear ...

Defence says diabetes, wine, medications led to Ahenakew's anti ...
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
SASKATOON (CP) - David Ahenakew's lawyer says diabetes, extra medication and wine led his client to make the anti-Semitic remarks for which he is now on trial. ...

Diabetes patients 'missing out'
BBC News - E,UK
People with diabetes are given too little information and are unaware of the potential health risks linked to their condition, a charity has said. ...

Diabetics 'not being told enough'
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... unnecessarily, campaigners warned. Diabetes UK also said that children with diabetes were not getting a fair deal in their care. The charity ...

Swift national action needed to battle Type 2 diabetes
San Jose Mercury News - USA
... Just look at the numbers, so graphically described in an eye-opening new book, ``Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America -- and What We ...

Expert warns diabetes cases on the rise
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
Certified Diabetes Educator Ann Marie Boyde said the occurrence of the disease has been increasing dramatically throughout the world. ...

Diabetes doesn't slow Bill King
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Bill King has lugged his illness across many miles, running 14 marathons since being diagnosed with diabetes 21 years ago, often with sliced-up Power Bars and ...

Fight diabetes naturally
The South African Star (subscription) - Johannesburg,South Africa
By Marika Sboros. Type 2 diabetes is mostly a disease of lifestyle, which is becoming epidemic across the globe. Lifestyle Editor ...

Meridia Aids Weight Loss and Diabetes Control
ABC News - USA
Apr 5, 2005 -- NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The weight-loss drug Meridia helps overweight people with diabetes to shed pounds and control their blood glucose ...

Diabetes Advocates Paint the Statehouse Red
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Clad in the American Diabetes Association's signature "Red Shirts," Diabetes Advocates from across Ohio gathered at the ...

The Missing Pieces of the Healthy Mediterranean Diet
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
... of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed the beneficial effects of the Mediterranean diet for the elderly, and for patients with Metabolic Syndrome. ...

Making the Mediterranean Diet Even Healthier
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
... Medical Association showed that a Mediterranean-style diet can substantially reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, and add ...

Russian doctor treats diabetes with physical exercises and regular ...
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
Boris Zherlygin's mother was diagnosed with diabetes. The disease resulted in severe complications - ulcers on feet and poor kidney activities. ...

Risk for Diabetes type II may be in the genes
MedIndia - India
Obesity has always borne the risk of diabetes. Obese people may be ata higher risk of having diabetes than non-obese people. A study ...

Fighting Obesity and Diabetes with Xenical vs. Appetite ...
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
... 29, 2004 Roche announced that the FDA has approved labeling showing that weight loss with Xenical (orlistat) delayed the onset of type 2 diabetes in obese ...

American Diabetes Association Announces Islet Cell Summit ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Diabetes Association Research Foundation announced today its first ever Islet Cell Summit, taking place ...

Report: Kentucky plagued by cancer, diabetes
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A national health report issued today says Kentucky is plagued by high cancer and diabetes rates. But the commonwealth ...

Free Treatment for Diabetes Patients
AllAfrica.com - Africa
"The association tries to help those who cannot afford to treat diabetes," Gishoma said. This is the only association in Rwanda ...

Research and Markets: Diabetes - Prevalence of Diabetes set to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... Ireland, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15077) has announced the addition of Diabetes to their ...

Do I Still Have Diabetes?
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
... Just about a year ago, I was able to discontinue my diabetes pills. ... My new doctor thinks I do not have diabetes anymore. Is this possible? ...

Remote Chance To Temper Your Diabetes
eDiets.com - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
By Glenn Mueller. If you have diabetes, there'sa remarkable little device that can make your life much easier to manage. No, I'm ...

New options for access to insurance offered by Canadian Diabetes ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
TORONTO, April 4 /CNW/ - Recognizing most Canadians with diabetes have difficulty accessing travel, health or life insurance, the Canadian Diabetes Association ...

Know your diabetes dangers
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
... He has to; as a diabetic for 20 years, the 70-year-old Hill has neuropathy, a common nerve disorder of diabetes mellitus that can lead to the loss of sensation ...

Events raise awareness and money to fight diabetes
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
The American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure hits Long Beach on May 21. ... AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION TOUR DE CURE, beginning at 6:30 am May 21. ...

The Link Between Diabetes And Dry Eye
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
If you have diabetes there is about a 50-50 chance that you have dry eye. Dry eye is characterized by dryness, burning or sandy-gritty ...

Internal Fat's Role In Type 2 Diabetes Probed
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... disciplinary research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is looking past waistlines and deeper into the role visceral fat plays in type 2 diabetes. ...

Pediatric burn victims' recovery, diabetes, metabolism aided by ...
Medical News Today - UK
One of the immediate serious results of sudden extreme trauma or stress, including burns and even surgery, is insulin resistance, or diabetes. ...

Working to prevent preventable diseases
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
Most every Virginian knows someone suffering from heart disease, diabetes, asthma or another chronic illness. Yet, these preventable ...

On the rounds
Scotsman - UK
... EXCESS belly fat is the best predictor of type 2 diabetes in men, new research from the US shows. ... During this time 884 men developed type 2 diabetes. ...

Diabetics with Palm PDA Will Ultimately See How Their Insulin Acts
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
Besides the majority of small improvements the new release introduces an outstanding feature - Insulin Time Activity charting. This ...

Focus On Insulin Pump Therapy Conference to be Held Labor Day ...
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
Learn about insulin pump therapy at the Children with Diabetes "Focus on Pumping" regional conference from September 3-5, 2004 at the Westin Grand in Washington ...

Pediatric burn victims' recovery, diabetes, metabolism aided by ...
Medical News Today - UK
One of the immediate serious results of sudden extreme trauma or stress, including burns and even surgery, is insulin resistance, or diabetes. ...

Sun set to acquire full control of MJ Pharma
Business Standard - India
... MJ Pharma has one of the best insulin manufacturing capacity inthe country, company sources stated. At present, MJ Pharma produces insulin for Eli Lilly. ...

Internal Fat's Role In Type 2 Diabetes Probed
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... In The Genes: Extra Belly Fat, Insulin Resistance Linked (February 26, 1999) -- About one-third of Americans carry enough extra weight to threaten their health ...

Taking control
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
... Meadows was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (meaning she's completely dependent on insulin), but she said she had had the disease long before then and didn ...

Obesity kills 17,000 a year
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Sixty per cent of Australian adults are either overweight or obese, causing a surge in weight-related illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, the Medical ...

Childhood diabetes rising in Pakistan
Pakistan Link - Inglewood,CA,USA
KARACHI April 03 : Pakistan, seventh in the world according to the latest estimates in prevalence of diabetes with seven million people, is feared to be at ...

Iacocca helps to find diabetes cure
St. Joseph News Press - St. Joseph,MO,USA
And in the 26 years he's verbalized his hope to find a cure for diabetes, he has not backed down. Perhaps that is evidenced by ...

Diabetes diagnosis prompted Weight Watchers' poster girl to lose ...
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... frame. And then she learned her latest diagnosis -- adult onset Type II diabetes. Dr. Stephen Harbin prescribed diet and exercise ...

Sifting through the cells responsible for diabetes
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
By Journal of Clinical Investigation , Insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2) plays a role in energy homeostasis and mice that lack this protein develop diabetes. ...

Pediatric burn victims' recovery, diabetes, metabolism aided by ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... April 3, 2005) -- One of the immediate serious results of sudden extreme trauma or stress, including burns and even surgery, is insulin resistance, or diabetes ...

Surgey 'best option' for obese
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... estimated between 12,000 and 17,000 deaths in Australia each year could be attributed to obesity yet surgery cut diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and ...

On The MoveSunday, April 03, 2005
Elkhart Truth - Elkhart,IN,USA
... Joining the Diabetes Care Division are: Sivaramakrishnan Balakrishnan, senior business analyst; David Glasgow, assistant research scientist; Karen Letts ...

Chemicals found in cherries may help fight diabetes
SheKnows.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
They have identified a group of naturally occurring chemicals abundant in cherries that could help lower blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. ...

Sutter Health Workshops Focus On Pediatric Diabetes
KCRA-TV - Sacramento,CA,USA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- With pediatric diabetes on the rise, it's becoming clear that children who live in communities where there is more awareness about the ...

Mental Agility Slows With Diabetes, but Memory Stays Intact
Medscape (subscription) - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 01 - Some areas of cognitive function are impaired in patients with type 1 diabetes, Dutch investigators report. ...

GAO: Commercial Plans Offer Good Diabetes Benefits
National Underwriter - Hoboken,NJ,USA
Large, private US health plans cover many diabetes services and supplies, whether or not the plans are required to do so by state laws or rules. ...

School for teachers on diabetes drive
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
... To plug this need for knowledge, pharmaceuticals major Johnson & Johnson launched the "country's first diabetes educators' centre" in Calcutta on ...

California doctor says childhood diabetes reaching "epidemic" ...
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
Dr. George Grunberger, head of the Grunberger Diabetes Institute, says childhood diabetes is now reaching "epidemic" level, and he's ...

More Sri Lankan children being treated for diabetes
Colombo Page - Colombo,Sri Lanka
Apr 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka's National Centre for Treating Diabetes says around 350 children below the age of ten receive treatment for diabetes. ...

Medtronic Expands Educational Support for Improved Diabetes ...
Hispanic PR Wire (press release) - Miami,FL,USA
Northridge, CA--(HISPANIC PR WIRE - BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2005--The Diabetes business of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today introduced ...

Metabasis Still Testing Diabetes Drug
Forbes - USA
said Thursday that one trial of a diabetes treatment is continuing despite two patients becoming seriously ill in a separate study involving the drug and said ...

Woman charged in husband's death wants alleged confession ...
KWQC-TV - Davenport,IA,USA
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa A judge is considering a motion to suppress an alleged confession made by a woman charged with giving her husband a fatal insulin injection. ...

Inflammation Key to Belly Fat 's Unhealthy Effects
Forbes - USA
... Eight of the women were diagnosed with what's known as metabolic syndrome, a common cluster of symptoms (such as obesity, high blood cholesterol and high blood ...

Sports Nutrition: Sheila's Nutrition Digest Vol. 4 - Beth ...
RunnersWeb - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... years of working with athletes, people wanting to lose weight, and patients with elevated blood pressure, elevated ...

Latino community sees rise in type II diabetes; Latinos more than ...
News Target - Taichung,Taiwan
The Diabetes Health Center in Santa Cruz County, California, tells the local newspaper that the number of new diabetes cases handled by their office has jumped ...

GAO: Commercial Plans Offer Good Diabetes Benefits
National Underwriter - Hoboken,NJ,USA
Large, private US health plans cover many diabetes services and supplies, whether or not the plans are required to do so by state laws or rules. ...

Diabetic Employee Faces a Catch-22
HR.BLR.com - USA
An Indiana revenue agent with 12 years' experience applied for a promotion to criminal investigator. Because he has Type I diabetes ...

Diabetic crashes SUV on golf course
Hamilton Journal News (subscription) - Hamilton,OH,USA
By with art slugged pj0407creek. MASON -- A Deerfield Township man lost control of his SUV Thursday afternoon, crashing it into ...

Tejano musician honors friend's request
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
... apartment today. Esther Marquez, a diabetic suffering from kidney failure, used to cook for Salgado at her home in Big Spring. Today ...

NASH Clinical Research Network Launches New Trial for Treatment of ...
National Institutes of Health (press release) - USA
NASH (Non-Alcoholic Steato-Hepatitis) occurs most often in adults over the age of 40 who are overweight or have diabetes, metabolic syndrome (pre-diabetes), or hyperlipidemia (excess ...

MannKind to Present at BioCentury Future Leaders in the Biotech ...
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
... The Company recently commenced Phase 3 clinical trials in Europe of its lead product, the Technosphere(R) Insulin System, to study its potential for the ...

Green Light for ThGRF in Phase III
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... About HIV-associated Lipodystrophy HIV-associated lipodystrophy is a metabolic syndrome that afflicts a large percentage of HIV patients undergoing ...

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