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News for Week #52 2006

Spine Shrinks Early in Diabetic Nerve Condition
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The size of the spinal cord is significantly diminished long before symptoms of nerve damage appear in adults with diabetes, British doctors report in the journal Diabetes Care. Diabetes can lead to nerve damage or "diabetic neuropathy" -- a painful condition that causes a range of symptoms from a tingling sensation or numbness in the toes and fingers to paralysis ...

Metformin and OCD
By Melanie28
I gave birth in May of this year to a gorgeous baby girl, but in end of the third trimester until now, I've had REALLY bad bouts of reactive hypoglycemia which has brought back OCD (I was in remission for years) with a vengeance. ...

FDA approves Byetta add-on blood sugar therapy
The FDA has approved Byetta (exenatide) injection from Amylin and Eli Lilly as an add-on therapy to improve blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes who have not achieved adequate control with thiazolidinedione. ...

The deadly connection between diabetes and Alzheimer’s—part 3
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA
... fats, and rich in vegetables, fruits and fiber, getting regular exercise is another vitally important way to both prevent and correct insulin resistance. ...

Herbal Formula Replaces Conventional Medicine For Diabetics
By BilliBoxter(BilliBoxter)
As the years went by as a diabetic, it became more and more difficult to control my blood sugar levels. My diet had to consist of a lot of calories because I have a fast metabolism and twenty pounds underweight. ...

Seabuckthorn Regulates Blood Sugar while lowering Cholesterol and ...
By chiroted
CONCLUSION: FSH and FFH can decrease the levels of blood glucose and lipid in normal mice, and the effect of FSH and FFH on glycometabolism may be related to the control of glyconeogenesis. ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Announce ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Incretins decrease blood sugar by increasing consumption of sugar by the body, mainly through increasing insulin production in the pancreas, and by reducing ...

Bear Spray Cures Type 1 Diabetic Mice
By prairie mary
Now that I take blood sugar readings all the time, I realize that every emotion, every stress, even benign changes like getting off schedule, every small excess of any food but especially some foods, makes my blood sugar change. ...

Increased Omega-3s a Mixed Bag on Insulin Sensitivity
Natural Products Industry Insider - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... reports altering the dietary ratio of omega-6 (n-6) to omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids by increasing intake of n-3s failed to improve insulin sensitivity scores or ...

Business Advertisements :: supply Banaba Leaf P.E1%~10% Corosolic Acid
By Morgan17
As such, banaba plays a role in regulating levels of blood sugar and insulin in the blood. For some people, fluctuations in blood sugar and insulin are related to ... By keeping blood sugar and insulin levels in check, banaba may be an ...

Diabetes Information - Green Tea as a Diabetes Prevention and ...
By admin
That’sa significant breakthrough because insulin ushers blood sugar, or glucose, into your cells. In order for your cells to get the life-giving energy they need, they must accept rather than resist insulin. ...

Ras Signaling in Either Prothoracic Gland Cells or Cholinergic ...
In most organisms, the rate of growth is controlled cell autonomously by the insulin-stimulated Pi3 kinase (Pi3K) pathway. However, the duration of growth is controlled in a more complex manner that involves endocrine factors that act ...

Immunomodulating cancer drug found helpful in controlling type 1 diabetes
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
By Robyn Shelton. Insulin is a hormone that's needed to convert sugar from the foods we eat into energy. In Type 2 diabetes, people ...

News for Week #51 2006

Cherries may help fight diabetes
PakTribune.com - Pakistan
... diabetes. Lab tests using animal pancreatic cells showed the chemicals, called anthocyanins, increased insulin production by 50 percent. ...

[Metabolism and Bioenergetics] Deletion of the Gene Encoding the ...
By Wang, Y., Oeser, J. K., Yang, C., Sarkar,...
Although UGRP–/– mice are not hypoglycemic, female UGRP–/– mice have elevated (~60%) plasma glucagon and reduced (~20%) plasma cholesterol. We hypothesize that the hyperglucagonemia prevents hypoglycemia and that the hypocholesterolemia ...

[Mechanisms Of Signal Transduction] Interaction of FoxO1 and TSC2 ...
By Cao, Y., Kamioka, Y., Yokoi, N., Kobayashi,...
Both TSC2 (tuberin) and forkhead transcription factor FoxO1 are phosphorylated and inhibited by Akt and play important roles in insulin signaling. However, little is known about the relationship between TSC2 and FoxO1. ...

Insulin resistance and hepatitis C
Insulin resistance is the major feature of the metabolic syndrome and depends on insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity. In chronic hepatitis C, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus are more often seen than in healthy ...

Diabetic Tricks: supplements or snake oil?
By Allie Beatty
This potent antioxidant can improve blood sugar and help prevent and treat diabetic complications such as cataracts and neuropathy, says Lester Packer, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California. In German research, 600 milligrams ...

Role of TAB1 in nitric oxide-induced p38 activation in insulin ...
By admin
For this purpose we over-expressed TAB1 in insulin-producing ß-TC6 cells. We observed in cells transiently over-expressing TAB1 that p38 activation was enhanced in response to DETA/NONOate. A lowering of TAB1 levels, using the siRNA ...

DNA damage repair defect unifies theories of aging
Scientist - UK
... also extends life, downregulates it. "If the system is very high [and] insulin levels are high, you grow rapidly. If that system is ...

The deadly connection between diabetes and Alzheimer’s—part 2
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA
... Scientists from Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., reported that diabetic individuals with very poor blood sugar control experience a dramatically increased ...

Metabolex Begins Phase 2a, Proof-of-Concept Study for MBX-2044 ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... announced today that it has begun a double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2a, proof-of-concept study for MBX-2044, a novel oral insulin sensitizer for the ...

Great Teachers - Insulin Action and Developmental Genes in Adipose ...
NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds Contemporary Clinical Medicine C. Ronald Kahn, MD President and Director, Joslin Diabetes Center Mary K. Iacocca Professor, Harvard Medical School For more information, visit ...

Linchpin Discovered In Insulin Metabolism
Scientists from the new interdisciplinary LIMES (Life & Medical Sciences) Centre at the University of Bonn have identified a new gene which could play an important role in the development of diabetes. Flies in which this hereditary ...

Results of Toronto Hospital Study of Diabetic Mice Supports ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... Sernova's approach to treating diabetes is to implant beneath the skin of diabetics, a small device containing insulin producing islets to reverse diabetes ...

LCT Granted Approval to Manufacture Xeno Products for Human Use
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... DiabeCell® is a porcine islet cell transplant therapy for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes. The neo-natal pig cells ...

News for Week #50 2006

Mathematical modeling in glucose metabolism and insulin secretion.
By ommen
Mathematical modeling in glucose metabolism and insulin secretion. Andrea Mari. Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care 5 (5), 495-501 (Sep 2002). PMID: 12172472. Posted by ommen to modeling on Sat Dec 16 2006 at 07:39 ...

Inflammation and type 1 diabetes
By mcsblues
Insulin replacement therapy is the only treatment of Type 1, ... In Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to shift glucose into the ... In Type 2 diabetes, the insulin that is produced is not used effectively ...

Liver signal critical for insulin's brain action
Xagena.it - Italy
A study has identified a key player in the body's ability to respond to insulin action in the brain by ratcheting down the export of blood sugar from the liver ...

[Mechanisms Of Signal Transduction] Glucose and Insulin ...
By Hagren, O. I., Tengholm, A.
In insulin-secreting &szligbeta;-cells, activation of phosphatidylinositol 3'-OH-kinase with resulting formation of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) has been implicated in the regulation of ion channels, insulin secretion ...

Association of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 ...
By Xi, Y., Nakajima, G., Hamil, T., Fodstad,...
In this study, we used dual model systems composed of melanoma cell lines and clinical melanoma samples to validate the importance of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) as a marker involved in disease progression. ...

Nervous system appears to play key role in developing Type 1 ...
CBC News - Canada
TORONTO (CP) - It's long been accepted wisdom that Type 1 diabetes occurs after a severe miscue by the immune system causes insulin-producing cells in the ...

Why Applying Insulin To Wounds Significantly Enhances Healing
Insulin is a hormone known primarily for regulating sugar levels in the blood, yet researchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently found that applying insulin directly to skin wounds ...Comment. ...

Almonds Are Good For Your Heart
The Journal of Nutrition has published a study that shows eating almonds may play a role in avoiding blood sugar spikes after consuming a carbohydrate-rich meal of foods that raise blood sugar levels. In addition, eating almonds helps ...

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Discusses Benefits of Oral Insulin Capsule ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Due to the interest in alternative delivery systems, Oramed compared the benefits of their oral insulin capsule in contrast to another popular insulin delivery ...

Judge Won't Stop Pfizer Sales of Exubera
Houston Chronicle - United States
... NEW YORK — A judge refused to immediately block sales of Pfizer's inhalable insulin product Exubera on Thursday, saying the public's need for a "new and less ...

New NICE guidance increases insulin options for some people with ...
SpiritIndia - New Delhi,New Delhi,India
NICE has issued guidance to the NHS in England and Wales on the use of inhaled insulin for the treatment of diabetes (type 1 and 2). ...

Rituximab induced hypoglycemia in non Hodgkin's lymphoma
Case presentationA 50 year old female presented with a left tonsillar non Hodgkin'slymphoma and was started on R-CHOP chemotherapy. Twenty four after the first rituximab infusion, she developed hypoglycemia which was managed by intra . ...

Market Report -- In Play (MII)
MSN Money - USA
The focus of the meeting was the co's plans for the commencement of clinical trials of its microencapsulated insulin-producing islet transplantation ...

Apollo Life Sciences oral insulin update
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... Apollo Life Sciences (ASX:AOP) today announced the successful completion of data collection in independent Phase 1 toxicology trials for oral insulin and its ...

Beta-glucan blunts insulin response after eating, says study
Lead researcher Dr. Kevin Maki told NutraIngredients.com that such a reduced response may translate into the blood pressure reduction observed in the obese/ high-BMI people participating in the study.Comment.

Method of controlling transcription insulin gene
A method for promoting insulin gene transcription, which comprises the step of inhibiting binding of IPF1 and any one of proteins selected from the following group: (i) HNF3G, (ii) PHF1, and (iii) DLX4; and a method for screening a ...

Double Diabetes' a New Threat: 1 Plus 2 Equals 3
Diabetes in Control - USA
"It's mostly people who have type 1 diabetes who become overweight and show the profile of a type 2, with obesity and hypertension," said Dr. Stewart Weiss, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City ...

Oral Steroids Trigger 2% of All New Cases of Diabetes
Diabetes in Control - USA
Study results "suggest that use of orally administered glucocorticoids may be associated with up to 2% of all new cases of diabetes in primary care."

Diet Drug Acomplia (Rimonabant) Lowers Blood Sugars and Reduces Weight
Diabetes in Control - USA
New study results show patients with an HbA1c level of at least 8.5 when they started taking Acomplia saw their their blood sugar level decrease 1.9 points compared to 0.7 points in patients on a placebo ...

News for Week #49 2006

Research Yields New Insights Into The Cause Of Diabetes
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
The cause of insulin-dependent, permanent, diabetes in newborn babies may be a deficiency in the enzyme Pancreatic Endoplasmic Reticulum Kinase (PERK) during a ...

DIABETES RISK NOT LINKED TO SUGAR
Scientist Live - London,UK
Researchers publish results of a clinical trial looking at the effects of high sugar intake on insulin resistance and vascular health and find no adverse links ...

Israel-based Tissera Reports Encouraging Preliminary Results for ...
By Israel HighTech-MAG - Press Releases
(OTCBB: TSSR) reports encouraging preliminary results of its large animal diabetic model experiments of pancreatic xenotransplantation, designed for the future treatment of insulin-dependent (type I) diabetes mellitus. ...

Obese Type 1 Diabetics At Greater Risk For Kidney Disease
By JJSDiabetes(JJSDiabetes)
The 1300 Type 1 diabetics studied were initially a part of a larger study showing intensive insulin therapy reduced the risk of kidney disease and other complications. The relationship of waist circumference on risk of kidney disease ...

Nastech Phase I Insulin Spray Study Positive
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
HS Ayoub submits: Nastech Pharmaceutical Company (NSTK) announced early Wednesday that its proprietary insulin nasal spray formulation had a faster insulin ...

PDE3B Regulates Energy Levels In Mice
By admin
Insulin acts on many cells to exert its control over the amount of energy that is ... When cells become resistant to the effects of insulin, type 2 diabetes and other ... Understanding the molecular pathways by which insulin affects the ...

Penn State Researchers Identify PERK Deficiency As Possible Cause ...
By JJSDiabetes(JJSDiabetes)
In this most severe type of diabetes, individuals are unable to regulate glucose normally because they have few insulin-producing beta cells in their pancreas and the remaining cells do not produce enough insulin. ...

Roche introduces insulin pumps
Indianapolis Star - United States
Roche Diagnostics Corp. is breaking into the growing US insulin pump business with its Swiss-made product that carries the well-known Accu-Chek brand name. ...

I just finished reading the most fascinating book called Lights ...
Sleep Loss: A novel risk factor for insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes Journal of Applied Physiology 99: 2008-2019, 2005. ... Van Cauter, Eve, et al., "Modulation of Glucose Regulation and Insulin Secretion by Circadian Rhythmicity ...

Can Hoodia Help You Lose Weight
By Admin
It is believed that the plant is the key resource for a molecule that overrides the nerves cells that detect increased blood sugar in the system. When a person eats, the blood sugar level is raised. When these nerve cells have detected ...

News for Week #48 2006

Diabetes vaccine trial offers new hope
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The trial will use insulin administered with a nasal spray to children and young adults who are genetically predisposed to developing Type 1 diabetes. ...

Relation of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) I and IGF-binding ...
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription) - Davis,CA,USA
Background: Fruit, vegetable, and antioxidant intakes may reduce the risk of several insulin-like growth factor (IGF)–related chronic diseases, such as ...

Infant diabetes may be enzyme deficiency
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
PHILADELPHIA, PA, United States (UPI) -- US scientists say insulin-dependent, permanent diabetes in infants may be caused by a deficiency in the enzyme ...

Superfoods: Acai Berries
Keep the Doctor Away - London,London,UK
... This allows for hormones, neurotransmitters and Insulin Receptors to operate more efficiently, which greatly reduces inflammation, inflammation being one of ...

'200 kids developing diabetes every day'
Times of India - India
... from International Diabetes Federation (IDF) shows that the two most common types of diabetes — Type 1, which requires treatment with insulin for survival ...

Dynamic Strength Training Improves Insulin Sensitivity without ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
... E-mail: langin{at}toulouse.inserm.fr. Context: Obesity is characterized by a low-grade inflammatory state, which could play a role in insulin resistance. ...

The Role of Insulin Resistance in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
... E-mail: kutzschn{at}u.washington.edu. Context: Insulin resistance is an almost universal finding in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). ...

Impact of Type 2 Diabetes on Myocardial Insulin Sensitivity to ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
... Background and Hypothesis: Myocardial insulin resistance (IR) is a feature of coronary artery disease (CAD) with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction ...

Insulin Action in Adipose Tissue and Muscle in Hypothyroidism
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
... Background: Although insulin resistance in thyroid hormone excess is well documented, information on insulin action in hypothyroidism is limited. ...

The Relationship between Plasma Adiponectin Concentration and ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
... Objective: The objective of the study was to define the relationship among smoking, plasma adiponectin concentrations, insulin resistance, and inflammation. ...

South Africa: 'Silent Killer' Diabetes Takes As Many Lives As HIV ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Type -1 diabetes is caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin which is essential for regulating the level of sugar in the blood. ...

Exercise-Induced Improvement in Vasodilatory Function Accompanies ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
... Objective: The present study was undertaken to determine whether improved vasodilatory function accompanies increased insulin sensitivity in overweight, insulin ...

Mad cow protein may play role in diabetes
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... were most likely to develop diabetes also tended to have more ``aggregates,'' or clusters of these molecules called prion proteins, in the insulin-making cells ...

PhytoMedical to Fast Track Development of New Class of Drug for ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... to expedite the development of its new class of cinnamon-derived ‘polyphenolic’ compounds, which possess unique antioxidant and insulin enhancing qualities ...

Dragonflies may hold clues to obesity
Penn State Digital Collegian - University Park,PA,USA
... Schilder analyzed muscle performance and blood-sugar levels. ... The infected dragonflies also had a two-fold increase in blood sugar, he added. ...

Avandia beats 2 drugs in diabetes control
United Press International - USA
... "This is the first long-term study to demonstrate that the progressive loss of blood sugar control can be delayed and target blood sugar levels can be ...

A Mechanism for Cell Size Regulation by the Insulin and Insulin ...
By Sun, H., Tu, X., Baserga, R.
Deletion of the type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) or of the insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) genes in animals ... Deletion of the insulin receptor (InR) genes results in mice that are normal in size at birth. ...

Diabetes Affects 246 Million People, Now Kills More Than AIDS
Bloomberg - USA
... Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or blood sugar, or when the body can't use the insulin it ...

News for Week #47 2006

Fasting Glucose Predicts Heart Failure, Death Rate, MI and Stroke, Independent of Diabetes
Diabetes in Control - USA
Rates of HF hospitalization over more than two years rose in tandem with baseline fasting plasma glucose levels in a "high-risk" population of >30 000 diabetic and nondiabetic patients with vascular disease. The association was significant even after adjustment for medical therapies, diabetic status, and other components of the metabolic syndrome ...

Sembiosys reaches >1% TSP expression milestone
By Administrator
(TSX:SBS), a biotechnology company developing a broad pipeline of protein-based pharmaceuticals and non-pharmaceutical products, today announced that the Company has achieved its commercial target levels of human insulin (insulin) ...

NYU, Scripps Finding Offers New Path for Treatment of Diabetes
By dlife
November 28, 2006 (EurekAlert) - Researchers at New York University and the Scripps Research Institute have discovered a new enzyme, GAPDH, which regulates insulin pathways—a finding that offers a new direction for the treatment of ...

Vitamin E and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the Women's Health Study Randomized Controlled Trial
Medscape - USA
In this large trial with 10-year follow-up, alternate-day doses of 600 IU vitamin E provided no significant benefit for type 2 diabetes in initially healthy women ...

CHICAGO: Pioglitazone slows atherosclerosis progression compared with SFU
Cardiology News Wire- USA
Drug reduced carotid IMT more than glimepiride in patients with type 2 diabetes ...

News for Week #46 2006

New Joint Guidelines for CVD and Diabetes from 2 European Associations
Diabetes in Control - USA
European Society of Cardiology(ESC) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes EASD) issue aggressive guidelines for coronary heart disease and diabetes ...

No Clear Evidence for Ultra-Low Cholesterol Targets
Diabetes in Control - USA
In a new paper in the October Annals of Internal Medicine, a team of researchers from the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan, show that the current studies do not support treating cholesterol levels to below and LDL of 70 or even less then 100mg/dL ...

Insulin Effects Weigh Heavy on the Brain
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
Boston—Known best for its role in the body as a regulator of blood glucose levels and fatty acid storage, insulin also acts in the brain to aid memory and ...

News for Week #45 2006

Taller women likelier to have twins
Houston Chronicle - United States
... at Long Island Jewish Medical Center who specializes in multiple birth pregnancies, has linked twin births to having higher levels of insulin-like growth ...

News for Week #44 2006

Celiac disease triples risk of diabetes
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with celiac disease have a higher likelihood of a subsequent diagnosis of type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes ...

Open up and say Ahhhhhh to Oral Insulin
By blogdig.net
Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, Drugs, Research, ProductsGenerex's flagship product, Oral-lynTM, is an oral insulin spray for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Their technology permits the delivery of ...

An Insulin Patch
By Allie Beatty
Altea Therapeutics is working on the next generation of insulin delivery in the form of an insulin patch. Altea is developing, both 12 and 24-hour, patches to provide controlled, continuous delivery of basal insulin in people with type ...

Emisphere Technologies Phase 2 Study Results Show Oral Insulin ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... news | PowerRating), a biopharmaceutical company, on Wednesday provided additional results from its 90-day, Phase 2 study of its oral insulin product utilizing ...

Diabetes and Alzheimer's: Insulin resistance increases risk
MayoClinic.com - USA
Reduce this risk by controlling your blood sugar. Diet and exercise can help. ... When your blood sugar is too high, it damages your blood vessels. ...

Insulin Stem Cells Hold Hope for Diabetes Treatment
Forbes - NY,USA
In a new study conducted with diabetic mice, human stem cells not only repaired insulin-producing cells in the rodents, they also fixed cells in damaged kidneys ...

News for Week #43 2006

Cinnamon extract could ease metabolic syndrome
FoodNavigator.com - Montpellier,France
... Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a condition characterised by central obesity, hypertension, and disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism. ...

Widely Prescribed Diabetes Drug Falls Short Of Promise, Says New ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... is true for essentially every drug available for the treatment of diabetes.". ... should refer to patient-oriented outcomes such as fewer diabetic complications or ...

‘350m diabetes sufferers in next 20 years’
The News - International - Pakistan
... As ever year the Diabetic Association of Pakistan has organised the World Diabetes Day on November 12. Former Chairman of Pakistan ...

News for Week #42 2006

New diabetes clinic to open in Dublin
Irish Medical Times - Dublin,Ireland
... positively affect the current 13-14 month waiting list for diabetic patients,” said ... The diabetes clinic will join the Beacon Hospital, which is opening next ...

Diabetics get hope with new pill
Blue Springs Examiner - MO, USA
... Hospital in Blue Springs the Diabetes Support Group meets at 2 pm on the third Tuesday of each month in annex A. Diane Warren, Ceritified Diabetic Educator for ...

The quest for diabetic drugs
TUV Product Service - Fareham,Hampshire,UK
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has set about rallying support for a UN resolution on diabetes in an effort to make drugs more widely available. ...

FDA approves new Merck diabetes drug
Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA
... The new diabetic drug has been approved as monotherapy and as add-on therapy to either of two other types of oral diabetes medications, metformin or ...

Pioglitazone benefit unclear, Cochrane review concludes
TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA
... and exercise to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes either as ... should not just focus on plasma glucose levels in diabetic patients, but ...

Glenmark licenses out diabetic molecule to Merck
India Infoline.com - Mumbay,India
... Pharmaceuticals SA (Switzerland), its 100% subsidiary, have entered into an agreement for DPPIV inhibitor GRC 8200, a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in Phase II ...

Jurong Medical Centre offers day surgery and management of chronic ...
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... Early intervention and proper management, for example in the case of diabetes, can help to prevent a diabetic patient from developing other related ...

Diabetes prevention pill divides experts
Daily News & Analysis, India - Oct 15, 2006
CHENNAI: An international study involving Indians in the diabetes-risk zone has revealed that a drug could prevent the disease by more than 60 per cent, but ...

Three million Thais diagnosed with diabetes
Thai News Agency MCOT - Bangkok,Thailand
... To keep diabetes at bay, parents must introduce a healthy diet and lifestyle to their children, he said. ''For diabetic people, they need to keep their health ...

News for Week #41 2006

Insulin Effects Weigh Heavy on the Brain
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
Boston—Known best for its role in the body as a regulator of blood glucose levels and fatty acid storage, insulin also acts in the brain to aid memory and ...

Antihypertensives Cut New-Onset Diabetes by a Third
Diabetes in Control - USA
... Some medications which lower blood pressure actually may reduce your chances of becoming diabetic ...

Public Alert: Fake Diabetic Blood Test Strips
Toronto Daily News - Toronto,ON,Canada
Diabetes sufferers are warned not to use fake blood glucose test strips, FDA said in a statement. These monitors are used by people ...

Stay heart healthy
Hindu - Chennai,India
... And we're again more prone — every fourth diabetic in the world is Indian. Dr. V. Mohan, MV Diabetes Specialities Centre and Madras Diabetes Research ...

Face-off with diabetes
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... Margie Barrows, 55, and John Suhr, 48, brother and sister and both diabetic, had collected ... a lot of people who I didn't even know had diabetes," Barrows said. ...

Poor leg circulation
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... The common predisposing causes are diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, high cholesterol ... The risk of amputation increases eight times in diabetic foot ulcers ...

Diabetes research unit lands $15 million grant
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
... to study diabetic complications, Dr. McIndoe said. "There was very few, if any, because most people when they are doing animal models, it's for diabetes, not ...

Research says lack of sleep poses risks for diabetics
Chicago Maroon - Chicago,IL,USA
... “Our study showed that for those with diabetes, those with poor sleep quality, or insufficient sleep have on average worse blood sugar control,” said ...

Amelioration of diet-induced diabetes mellitus by removal of ...
Journal of Endocrinology
... and serum adipokine levels in an animal model of diet induced obesity and diabetes mellitus (DIO). ... DIO mice became obese and overtly diabetic after eight weeks ...

Roche Diagnostics Announces Launch of ACCU-CHEK(R) Spirit Insulin ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
10 /PRNewswire/ -- The first ACCU-CHEK branded insulin pump, the ACCU-CHEK Spirit insulin pump system, is now available in the United States. ...

New diabetes institute to be launched in Dublin
Irish Medical News - Dublin,Ireland
... give a talk entitled Diabetes – the changing scene, while Drs Niall Mulvhill and George Mellotte will also address the meeting on diabetic cardiomyopathy and ...

Sit around and get fat - or do something about it
PensacolaNewsJournal.com - FL
Childhood obesity is a plague across the nation, and contributes to diabetes. According to the study, diabetic residents of the Pensacola Bay Area die at twice ...

Highlights from EASD 2006: Targeting CV risks in dysglycemic ...
TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA
... noted in an EASD symposium, the combination of hypertension, hyperglycemia, and dyslipidemia makes diabetes a complex disease to treat. Diabetic patients also ...

Gestational Diabetes in Mothers enhances the Risk of ...
MedIndia - India
... in New York analyzed the children of mothers, who were either diabetic before pregnancy ... after birth in 43 infants of mothers who had gestational diabetes and 6 ...

Plan Will Guide NIH Research in Type 1 Diabetes
National Institutes of Health (press release) - USA
... treating the eye damage of diabetes. With laser treatment and vitrectomy, blindness has been reduced by 90 percent in patients with severe diabetic retinopathy ...

Location Of Plantar Ulcerations In Diabetic Patients Referred To A ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... the location of foot ulcers through a chart review of diabetic patients in ... We hypothesized that individuals with diabetes rarely have heel ulcers but that heel ...

World Sight Day: Diabetics need to take care of eyes
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... diabetic retinopathy can progress quickly or slowly. Factors that may hasten the progress include heavy smoking and poorly controlled hypertension, diabetes ...

Novartis Launches 'GALIANT' Study Comparing the Investigational ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
Clinical trials to date have demonstrated that treatment with Galvus results in consistent, significant and sustained reductions in blood sugar levels, leading ...

Which Inhaled Insulin Systems Now in Development Will Pose the ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43422) has announced the addition of Decision Resources report 'Impact of Inhaled Insulin on the ...

Double Diabetes
WVLT - Knoxville,TN,USA
... now takes insulin and pills," says Nannette Zepeda, whose daughter is double Diabetic. Eight-year-old Alexis Zepeda was born with Type I Diabetes, a disease ...

Diabetes Drug Liraglutide to Be Tested in Separate Clinical Trial ...
Diet Drug Report - Vero Beach,FL,USA
... The reason: in a three-month study of Liraglutide as a treatment for diabetes, the two ... "You would expect a greater weight loss in non-diabetic patients than in ...

Mannose-Binding Lectin and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes
Archives of Internal Medicine - USA
... of diabetic vascular complications. We evaluated the relationship between serum MBL and mortality and development of albuminuria in type 2 diabetes. ...

News for Week #40 2006

Structure of enzyme offers treatment clues for Alzheimer's
Hindu - Chennai,India
Researchers from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of insulin-degrading enzyme, a ...

Pine bark extract could improve diabetic microangiopathy
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
... which already includes hypertension, asthma, chronic venous insufficiency, osteoarthtitis, deep vein thrombosis, diabetes management, diabetic leg ulcers and ...

Depomed Completes Enrollment in Phase II Clinical Trial in ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... Diabetic neuropathy is a peripheral nerve disorder caused by diabetes. Approximately 60 to 70 percent of the 20 million diabetics ...

Sertoli Cells May Hold Key for Type 1 Diabetics
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
... “When we do this, we can treat all Type 1 diabetic patients, and also Type 2 diabetes patients who are dependent on insulin.”. ...

Software for diabetic retinopathy
Chennai Online - Chennai,India
The software named ADRES (Aravind Diabetic Retinopathy Screening) has been developed by ... tool against the backdrop of increasing incidence of diabetes, Dr P ...

The Charcot Foot Condition - A Little Known Diabetes Complication
Market-Day.net - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Charcot Foot disease is a little known complication that can affect anyone who has diabetes. This condition also occurs in ...

Diabetes Mellitus and Ramadan fasting
Yemen Times - Sana'a,Yemen
Diabetes Mellitus affects people of all faiths. Muslims are no exception. Many diabetic Muslims have a desire to fast during the month of Ramadan, although if ...

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