Diabetes News from The National Diabetes Center

Public sources of news of interest to the diabetic community at large
i.e., what our patients (as well as their friends and families) are reading.....

Week of 1 July 2006

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News for Week #24 2006

Pfizer Signs License Agreement With Bayer On Potential Obesity ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Looking ahead, sales of two of the largest anti-diabetic drug classes, glitazones and ... are seemed to be locking horns for dominance in the diabetes sector, with ...

Novartis hypertension drug shows potential in diabetics
Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA
... This new data underlines the potential of SPP100 (Rasilez) in diabetic hypertensives, a ... events than those hypertensive patients without diabetes," commented Dr ...

Compare Januvia and Galvus Diabetes Drugs - Both Lower Blood Sugar ...
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
... side effects. Other drugs on the market can cause low blood sugar and weight gain side-effects, so these new drugs may be better. ...

For critically ill, slightly higher blood sugar increases death ...
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
Washington | For the critically ill, blood sugar that's even slightly higher than normal increases the chance of death, says a study that tracked 216,000 ...

Blood sugar monitoring success for Israeli companies
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... OrSense has developed a device for blood sugar testing that uses a strong optical signal, yielding a high signal-to-noise ratio that is blood driven. ...

Galvus Combination Lowers Blood Sugar By Up To 2.8%
Medical News Today - UK
Galvus combined with pioglitazone reduces blood sugar (HbA1c) by up to 2.8% in type two diabetes patients, say Galvus makers, Novartis. ...

High Blood Sugar Can Be Deadly After Heart Attack
Forbes - USA
TUESDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Stroke and heart attack patients who are hospitalized in the ICU must keep their blood sugar under tight control, a new US ...

Surprise Sheds New Light On Diabetes
Hartford Courant - United States
Even 50 years after being diagnosed, many people with Type 1 diabetes show evidence of some continuing function in their insulin-producing cells, scientists ...

Isis antisense drug shown to control blood sugar
Reuters - USA
LOS ANGELES, June 13 (Reuters) - An experimental drug designed to block a protein involved in insulin resistance can control blood sugar in people with Type II ...

CombinatoRx Presents Preclinical Data on CRx-401, a Novel Insulin ...
Finanzen.net - Germany
The anti-diabetic activity of CRx-401translates in vivo in a rat model of insulin resistance, significantlyreducing fasting blood glucose and homeostasis ...

Metabolex Initiates Phase 2/3 Trial of Metaglidasen in Patients ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... A novel insulin sensitizer, metaglidasen has been shown in a previously conducted Phase 2 trial in patients with diabetes to be well tolerated and to lower ...

Fish Oil Holds Promise for Those with Type II Diabetes
NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... oil. These results were released on June 10 at the 66 th annual meeting of the American Diabetic Association in Washington , DC . ...

Study: New Drug Reduces Vision Loss In Diabetics
Elites TV - Dickinson,TX,USA
... on Sunday at the annual conference of the American Diabetes Association. ... in the studies, Arxxant can prevent approximately 70,000 cases of diabetic vision loss ...

Nepretin, a New Natural Supplement to Control Complications from ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... clinically designed to control complications from diabetes. It has been shown to slow, stop and even reverse the eye damaging effects of diabetic retinopathy. ...

Duloxetine May Impair Metabolic Control in Patients With Diabetic ...
DG News - USA
... in metabolic control in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP), according to data presented at the American Diabetes Association 66 th ...

Point Therapeutics' Diabetes Program Presented at American ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... of DPP-4, which is a widely recognized target for the treatment of diabetes. ... CP) DPP-4 inhibitor and from metformin in studies in Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF ...

FibroGen Reports Combinations of FG-3019 Plus ACEi and FG-3019 ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... ARB), on diabetic vascular and cardiac complications including arterial passive stiffness, cardiac dysfunction, and vascular permeability. Type 1 diabetes was ...

News for Week #23 2006

Favorable Results With Lacosamide For Use In Diabetic Neuropathic ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... Nearly 50 percent of individuals who have had diabetes for over 25 years will experience some symptoms of painful diabetic neuropathy. ...

Byetta weight loss doubles for diabetics at 2 years
USA Today - USA
... is a concern because obesity is the main cause of type 2 diabetes, the most common from of the disease. "There's never been any anti-diabetic medication that ...

Trophos will start Phase II clinical trial in diabetic neuropathy ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... Diabetic neuropathies are a family of nerve disorders caused by diabetes leading to numbness, weakness and sometimes pain in the hands, arms, feet and legs. ...

Phenomix Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial of PHX1149 for Type 2 ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... to enhance the therapeutic product landscape for type 2 diabetes by providing ... the potential to deliver significant clinical benefit to type 2 diabetic patients ...

Metabasis Reveals Publication Of Its Evaluation Of CS-917 In ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... in Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats" discusses the efficacy and safety profile of the lead compound, CS-917, in animal models of early- and late-stage diabetes. ...

Fat Genes: Flawed Logic in New Research Fad
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... fault for an extremely small percentage of obesity and diabetes, which is why an only extremely small percentage of the world was obese or diabetic during the ...

New Data Demonstrate Benefits of Initial Use of Avandaryl(R) ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... American Diabetes Association (ADA) show the benefits of the initial use of Avandaryl in helping people with type 2 diabetes achieve blood sugar targets and ...

Easier-to-use diabetes drug passes test
CNNMoney.com - USA
... of the diabetes treatment Byetta, reported Saturday that a more convenient-to-use but experimental version of the drug successfully reduces blood-sugar levels. ...

Local company develops new blood-sugar test for diabetics
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription) - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said yesterday that a blood test marketed by a local company can detect some blood sugar levels in diabetics ...

Merck sees some hypoglycemia drug success
CNNMoney.com - USA
... using glipizide suffered at least one episode of hypoglycemia, while less than 5 percent of Januvia patients experienced hypoglycemic episodes, according to ...

1-Time DNA Shot May Replace Insulin Shots for Diabetics
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USA
People with type one diabetes may one day be able to trade in a daily shot of insulin with just a one-time, single shot of DNA. ...

Studies Aim to Preserve Insulin Production in Type 1 Diabetes
National Institutes of Health (press release) - USA
The NIH-funded studies seek to slow or stop the immune system’s attack on insulin-producing cells in two groups of people: those newly diagnosed with type 1 ...

Vine has former minister barking
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... has discovered the bark of a vine, used by "medicine men" in Tonga and other Pacific Islands to combat diabetes and obesity, has properties akin to insulin. ...

Diabetes - New Treatment Approach At John Hopkins
MedIndia - India
... Understanding the role of GCN5 in maintaining blood sugar levels is leading to a clearer picture of how the body uses sugar and other nutrients to make, store ...

Female Hormone May Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
HealthCentral.com - USA
... estrogen hormone known as estradiol might help protect against diabetes by preventing the death of pancreatic cells critical to the production of insulin. ...

Research With Fruit Flies Help Explain Diabetes
13WHAM-TV - Rochester,NY,USA
They found a certain genetic signal in fruit flies that can suppress insulin -- sometimes for a long time. That can cause diabetes. ...

Incyte Begins Phase I Study of INCB13739 as a New Treatment for ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
11beta-HSD1 converts inactive cortisone into the active glucocorticoid, cortisol, a natural antagonist of insulin action. Human ...

Insulin may serve as fuel for breast cancer
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
Insulin levels may help explain why obese women who develop breast cancer tend to have poorer survival rates than lean women. "Women ...

Myosin motor Myo1c and its receptor NEMO/IKK- promote TNF ...
Journal of Cell Biology
Tumor necrosis factor- (TNF- ) signaling through the IB kinase (IKK) complex attenuates insulin action via the phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 ...

Ancient Wisdom: Chinese extract may yield diabetes treatment
Science News - USA
In some cases of type 2 diabetes, a person's pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin, a hormone that prompts cells to take in blood sugar. ...

Soy Protein May Benefit Diabetics’ Kidneys
Online - International News Network - Islamabad,Pakistan
... The study of 14 older men with diabetes-related kidney disease found that adding a soy ... It’s unclear why soy protein might aid in diabetic kidney disease, but ...

Causes of Adverse Reactions to Popular Type 2 Diabetes TZD Drugs
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
... Now a new study at Joslin Diabetes Center has uncovered a mechanism that leads ... were able to link this increased PKC-beta activity to diabetic complications of ...

News for Week #22 2006

New discoveries made in diabetes treatment
Austin Herald - Austin,MN,USA
... to diabetes and obesity in humans,” Kiss said. “Therefore, the company expects that this protein will also be efficient in obese and diabetic humans in ...

Foot Infections Raise Hospitalizations, Amputations, in Diabetics
FOX News - USA
... high incidence of foot infections in people with diabetes, even those ... is a “high amputation risk associated with foot infections in diabetic patients,” the ...

Diabetes - treatment trials a success
Irish Health - Ireland
... has discovered that injecting patients with a DNA-binding protein may prevent diabetes-related nerve damage - known as diabetic neuropathy - particularly to ...

Islet Cell Transplantation Significantly Improves Glycemic Control ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
Patients with type 1 diabetes who receive transplants of insulin-producing islet cells have significantly more stable blood glucose levels and fewer ...

Gene therapy shows potential in Pitt study
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... It was designed to be active only in pancreatic islet cells that make insulin. The gene therapy was administered to diabetes-prone ...

Insulin Therapy in the ICU
AAP Grand Rounds (subscription) - Elk Grove Village,IL,USA
Source: Van den Berghe G, Wilmer A, Hermans G, et al. Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:449–461 ...

Type 2 diabetes teens have higher complication risk
Reuters - USA
... In type 1 diabetes, also called early-onset diabetes or juvenile diabetes, the immune system destroys the cells that produce insulin. ...

Generex strikes deal with Fertin on medicinal chewing gum to treat ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Generex said Wednesday the two companies will develop a gum that contains metformin, a widely used drug to control blood sugar levels in Type-2 diabetics, who ...

Gestational diabetes on the rise
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
Answer: Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes (high blood sugar) that first occurs when a woman is pregnant. There is a 20 ...

Insight into the anti-cancer effect of exercise
Reuters - USA
... The protein, called insulin-like binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3), inhibits another protein called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), thereby blocking IGF-1's ...

Trial success for diabetic nerve therapy
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... "Diabetic neuropathy is a major problem in insulin-dependent diabetes, particularly in patients who have had the disease for a period of time," said Professor ...

Mixing insulins okay for kids with diabetes
Reuters.uk - UK
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with type 1 diabetes, who have to take multiple injections of insulin, can safely mix rapid-acting and long-acting insulin ...

Antibiotic might stop diabetic eye damage
PakTribune.com - Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Experiments in rats suggest that minocycline, an antibiotic, could curb a common cause of vision problems in people with diabetes. ...

Marijuana Chemical Reduces the Development of Diabetes in Animal ...
BBSNews - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Source: Weiss L, Zeira M, Reich S, Har-Noy M, Mechoulam R, Slavin S, Gallily R. Cannabidiol lowers incidence of diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice. ...

News for Week #21 2006

One-Third of US Adults Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic
Forbes - USA
FRIDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has now topped 19 million, and a new study says a third of adults ...

One-third Of Adults With Diabetes Still Don't Know They Have It
Science Daily - USA
The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in U.S. adults age 20 and older has risen from about 5.1 percent to 6.5 percent, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who analyzed national survey data from two periods--1988 to 1994 and 1999 to 2002. However, the percentage of adults with undiagnosed diabetes did not change significantly over the years studied ...

Patient-focused Conference Addresses Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... Although the cause of PCOS is still debated by experts in the field of endocrinology, a great deal of evidence points to “insulin resistance”, a condition ...

Herbal Remedy Could Help Sufferers of Type 2 Diabetes
NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... the hypotensive effect of hawthorn was studied in type 2 diabetic patients because ... the modern-drug regimes commonly used in the management of type 2 diabetes. ...

Innovations needed to monitor kidney health
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
... With current trends of CKD and diabetes increase, specific treatments will ... will utilize the latest knowledge on the pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy and ...

Nurses attend diabetes care management course
Borneo Bulletin - borneo,Brunei Darussalam
... This move is taken in view of the increasing number of diabetic patients in ... treatment as well as giving better advices to patients or the public on diabetes. ...

Diabetes Treatment Heading for Final Human Trials, at Last
International News Service - Sydney,Australia
... with diabetes, roughly 95 percent have Type 2. In 2002, diabetes caused 44 ... And diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in American adults.But ...

Doctors open to nurse prescribing code
Irish Medical News - Dublin,Ireland
... “But things like diabetes, and diabetic nurse clinics, the nurses are more or less doing it all the time. I would have no difficulty ...

"Amputation rate higher among rural diabetics"
Hindu - Chennai,India
... All of them were diabetic for 12 years. ... amputation due to neuropathy (loss of sensation in the feet), a complication arising out of poorly controlled diabetes. ...

Diabetes Nerve Drug
ScienCentral News - New York,NY,USA
... As the researchers wrote in the journal "Diabetes," tests on diabetic rats showed that repeated treatments with the drug led to increasingly improved nerve ...

Law Firm Investigates Link Between AstraZeneca s Seroquel and ...
PowerHomeBiz.com (press release) - USA
... Seroquel use. These injuries include pancreatitis, diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis, and in severe cases, diabetic coma and death. ...

The benefits of HRT
Health24.com - Cape Town,South Africa
... Another mechanism concerns the development of insulin resistance which is related to body fat distribution around the tummy. Insulin ...

CEPTYR, Inc. Begins IND-Enabling Studies with Its PTP-1B Inhibitor ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... In preclinical rodent studies, CPT633 demonstrated significant improvement in insulin sensitivity, as well as significant reductions in blood glucose, and ...

AUST plans for a major diabetes study - UAE
Middle East North Africa Financial Network - Amman,Jordan
... has been cooperating with the German based Institute for Diabetes and has ... The programme focuses on finding medical solutions for acute diabetic patients, it ...

Diabetes Enhances Periodontal Bone Loss through Enhanced ...
Journal of Dental Research
... Using a ligature-induced model in type-2 Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rat and normoglycemic littermates, we investigated whether diabetes primarily affects ...

Phosphagenics announces positive preclinical trial results for its ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... the non-diabetic pig model is considered to be robust for both testing the penetration of drugs across skin as well as for determining the efficacy of diabetes ...

New help for diabetes with chronic sores
WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA
... infection. As a diabetic waiting for a kidney transplant, Linda Dickens has had an infection that nearly destroyed her left big toe. ...

Efficacy and safety of topiramate in combination with metformin in the treatment of obese subjects with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
DG News - UK
In this multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, researchers compared the efficacy and safety of topiramate and metformin on weight and glycaemic control in obese subjects with type 2 diabetes...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Majority of Patients With Pancreatic ...
AScribe - USA
The study also found that in one-half of the diabetic patients, their new-onset diabetes predated clinical diagnosis of cancer by more than six months, giving ...

ECU faculty research the effects of gastric-bypass surgery on ...
ECU The East Carolinian - Greenville,NC,USA
... Dr. Walter Pories, professor of surgery, has found that four out of five patients with adult onset diabetes didn't experience any diabetic symptoms within days ...

CORRECTION: Carotenoids may lower diabetes risk in nonsmokers
Reuters - USA
For people who don't smoke, the risk of developing diabetes is lower in those with higher levels of carotenoids in their blood, according to a new report. The effect is not seen in smokers, however

Women With Type 2 Diabetes at Increased Risk of Colorectal ...
DG News - USA
LOS ANGELES, CA -- May 23, 2006 -- Women with type 2 diabetes show higher rates of colorectal adenomas than lean, non-diabetic women, researchers reported here ...

Drug giants fight for diabetes market
CNNMoney.com - USA
... Merck's Januvia and Novartis' Galvus are both being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration to lower blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes, the ...

Baylor researchers develop 'bubble' technique for potential ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Insulin is a hormone that allows blood glucose (blood sugar) to enter the cells of the body to be used for energy. The technique ...

Metabolic syndrome ups heart failure later
United Press International - USA
... The subsequent excess insulin circulating in the blood may excessively enlarge the heart muscle, impairing its capacity, the researchers say.

New study may advance treatments to prevent type 2 diabetes and ...
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
Insulin uses two distinct mechanisms to control glucose and the metabolism of blood fats (lipids) in the liver, a new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has ...

Apnea linked to diabetes?
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA
... There is an immediacy to understanding how sleep apnea might trigger diabetic conditions. Diabetes is one of America's fastest growing disorders, affecting ...

News for Week #20 2006

Reduced Diabetes Likelihood in Hypertensives Starting Valsartan ...
DG News - USA
... New-onset diabetes was identified based on at least 2 outpatient diagnoses at ... 1 inpatient diagnosis, or at least 1 prescription for an anti-diabetic medication ...

Drug Combos Best for Controlling Blood Pressure
Forbes - USA
... In the study, called the Amlodipine Diabetic Hypertension Efficacy Response (ADHT), the ... The researchers found that more patients with diabetes (27.5 percent ...

Enigmatic Cuban Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Medgadget.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... who claim to have developed the world's best approach to advanced diabetic ulcers, a new drug called CITOPROT-P. In Cuba , the prevalence of diabetes is around ...

A Non-invasive Method For Measuring Beta Cell Mass During Diabetes
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... were able to use DTBZ to estimate beta cell mass in rats with type 1 diabetes. ... uptake of DTBZ that preceded the loss of glycemic control in the diabetic rat. ...

Diabetes -- Table of Contents (May 2006, 55 [5])
Diabetes-Induced Activation of Canonical and Noncanonical Nuclear Factor- ...
Differential Transmission of Type 1 Diabetes from Diabetic Fathers and Mothers ...

Australia's obesity time bomb
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... those with pre-diabetes were up to 20 times as likely to develop full-blown diabetes in the subsequent five years, compared with those with normal blood sugar. ...

MCP-1: The Missing Link Between Obesity And Insulin Resistance
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... syndrome often have excessive fatty tissue in and around their abdomen, high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, and an inability to utilize insulin or blood ...

Variant gene linked to type 1 diabetes
Reuters.uk - UK
... Health) - Researchers have identified a variation in a gene that is associated with type 1 diabetes, the form of the disease in which insulin production by the ...

New study finds PET imaging value in tracking diabetes progression
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... non-invasive imaging method that may eventually enable more precise care of people with diabetes by measuring their quantity of insulin-producing pancreatic ...

Bristol-Myers drops effective diabetes drug
Food Consumer - Lisle,IL,USA
... Pargluva is apparently able to lower blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who don’t respond well to treatment with the standard diabetes drug ...

Diabetes Hope As Protein Structure Is Laid Bare
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
... Diabetes results when not enough insulin is released to meet the body's demands. The K-ATP channel protein is the target for anti-diabetic drugs that are taken ...

News for Week #19 2006

Joslin-led study reveals new findings on insulin signaling in the ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
BOSTON -- Insulin uses two distinct mechanisms to control glucose and the metabolism of blood fats (lipids) in the liver, a new Joslin Diabetes Center-led ...

Hyperglycemia represses the expression of genes essential for ...
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
According to recent research from Switzerland published in the EMBO Journal, hyperglycemia represses the expression of genes essential for insulin exocytosis. ...

Insulin and glucose mediate opposite intracellular ionized ...
Journal of Endocrinology
Insulin is capable of increasing intracellular magnesium, although very little is known about the effect of insulin on the biologically active fraction of ...

Myocarditis versus myocardial infarction in diabetic patients: a ...
HeartZine - London,UK
A young diabetic patient was referred to our institution for clinical symptoms ... in patients with a suspected myopericarditis, especially if diabetes mellitus is ...

Pre-Diabetes Clinical Drug Trial Focuses on Diabetes Prevention ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... According to the American Diabetes Association, 41 million Americans between the ages of 40 to 74 are pre-diabetic. The National ...

Down-regulation of the constitutively expressed Hsc70 in diabetic ...
Journal of Endocrinology
... diabetes rats, and to explore the mechanisms through which diabetes alters the abundance of Hsp70/Hsc70 in cardiac muscle. In the diabetic myocardium, the ...

Quigley to begin clinical trials of diabetes drug
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Corp.'s drug development subsidiary, has started screening patients for clinical trials of a drug it is developing to treat diabetic peripheral neuropathy. ...

Sexual dimorphism in insulin sensitivity and susceptibility to ...
Journal of Endocrinology
... of insulin sensitivity and of susceptibility to the effects of diabetes. ... A diabetic model was induced by streptozotocin under nicotinamide protection in both ...

Prospective Study on Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Glycemic ...
Psychosomatics (subscription) - USA
... factors were directly and indirectly associated with regimen adherence and prospective glycemic control in Type 2 diabetic patients. Diabetes-Related Self ...

Statins May Improve Eye Circulation
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USA
... that of patients with diabetes, the increased retinal blood flow associated with treatment with simvastatin may be a potential therapy for diabetic retinopathy ...

Effects of Diabetes Duration and Glycemic Control on Free Radicals ...
Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science (subscription) - Middlebury,VT,USA
... blood samples from 47 children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and from 51 healthy controls, matched for age and sex. In the diabetic children, chemiluminescent ...

Calorie Restriction, Insulin and A Longer, but Not Necessarily ...
The Common Voice - Greenville,SC,USA
... Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), suggests that calorie restriction, characterized by its effect on growth hormone and insulin may be ...

News for Week #18 2006

Sufferers of Type 2 diabetes 'are three times more likely to die ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... The study is published in the journal Diabetic Medicine. "These results are shocking but people with diabetes have to be made aware of the seriousness of the ...

Diabetes Drug May Have Weight Loss Side Effect
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
... weight -- at work,' they said, and I guess I am," said diabetic Thelma Vanguardia. ... "This drug is very exciting because it's addressing treating diabetes in a ...

Akesis Enters Pact With Profil to Launch Clinical Trials in Type 2 ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... patents for both prescription and over-the-counter treatments, which uniquely combine anti-diabetic trace minerals with certain classes of diabetes oral agents ...

Treatment for angina in diabetes
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... as non-diabetic patients, the BCS conference heard. The selective If inhibitor ivadrabine (Procoralan) slowed the heart rate of 441 patients with diabetes as ...

Diabetes soars in Italy
ANSA - Rome,Italy
... Type 2 diabetes develops when the body does not make enough insulin - a hormone that helps glucose enter cells where it is used as fuel - or when the insulin ...

Three-year mortality in diabetic patients treated with different combinations of insulin secretagogues and metformin
DocGuide - USA
This observational cohort study was performed to evaluate 3-year mortality in a consecutive series of 2002 outpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who were being treated with combinations of insulin secretagogues and biguanides...

Can rosiglitazone slow Alzheimer's onset?
Detroit Free Press - United States
... If the new theory is right, the nation's obesity-fueled epidemic of type 2 diabetes could worsen that toll. The idea is this: If diabetic-like changes in the ...

New anti-psychotic drugs carry risks for children
USA Today - USA
... warnings that the drugs may increase the risk of high blood sugar and diabetes. ... A 13-year-old girl experienced diabetic ketoacidosis, a deficiency of insulin. ...

Male Diabetics with Asymptomatic Sickle Cell Traits Face Magnified ...
DG News - USA
... "We found that male patients with the asymptomatic sickle cell genotype and diabetes had 1.6 times the general risk of diabetic complications, such as ...

ISTA Pharmaceuticals Reports Simple Model Predicts Treatment ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... VitraseŽ (Ovine Hyaluronidase) in managing vitreous hemorrhage associated with diabetes. ... of VitraseŽ Efficacy for BCVA Improvement in Diabetic Patients With ...

Study links diabetes and overweight teens
Seattle Times - United States
... or were "pre-diabetic.". The findings indicated that 39,000 US teens have type 2 diabetes and nearly 2.8 million are pre-diabetic. ...

Study doubts glycemic index
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
COLUMBIA, SC - Diets that distinguish between "good carbs" and "bad carbs," are not an effective way of controlling blood sugar levels, a new study suggests. ...

MannKind 1Q loss widens
BusinessWeek - USA
... costs rose to $45.1 million in the quarter from $22.6 million, mostly because of increased clinical development expenses related to its insulin product to ...

AstraZeneca Pipeline Takes Another Hit
Forbes - USA
... doing more damage to its already-weakened pipeline and casting a cloud over a new class of medicines that doctors hoped would control blood sugar and reduce ...

Alta. scientists credited in US insulin cell patent
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
A California company has secured a potentially lucrative patent on insulin-producing cells with the help of celebrated Alberta researchers. ...

An Artificial Pancreas Will Revolutionize Diabetes Care
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... A closed-loop artificial pancreas will be a mechanical system that integrates real-time glucose sensors, a computer controller, and an insulin delivery system. ...

Diabetic truckers may see relaxed medical rules in US
Today's Trucking News - USA
... Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering whether to amend its medical qualifications standards to allow drivers with insulin- treated ...

Exenatide Improves Hyperglycemia by Reducing Postprandial Glucose ...
DG News - USA
... improved hyperglycemia in a new study by reducing both postprandial glucose (PPG) excursions and fasting glucose (FG), while insulin glargine improved ...

Diabetes raises early death risk
BBC News - UK
... It develops when the body can still make some insulin, but not enough, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly (known as insulin resistance ...

Pioglitazone Has Cholesterol Advantages Versus Rosiglitazone in ...
DG News - USA
... Pioglitazone and rosiglitazone are insulin sensitizers belonging to the thiazolidinedione class of oral anti-diabetic medications. ...

Antidepressants extend time to relapse in diabetics
Reuters.uk - UK
... with diabetes, study results suggest. And sustained remission of depression is associated with improved control of blood sugar. ...

Cymbalta And Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Pain Relief
DiabeticNews.com - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... at any time, the highest rates are among those who have had diabetes for at ... age of 40, may also have a greater risk of developing diabetic peripheral neuropathy ...

Type 2 Diabetes Invading Teenage Years
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
... In this self-reported group of 18 diabetic teenagers, 10 individuals were categorized as having type 1 diabetes (used insulin) and eight as having type 2 ...

Israeli researchers find method to slow insulin resistance in ...
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
01 - Israeli researchers have discovered that the fibric acid derivative bezafibrate effectively stems the progression of insulin resistance in patients with ...

Thiazolidinedione (TZD) Use and Bone Loss in Older Diabetic Adults
Doctors Guide - USA
...Researchers analysed 4-year follow-up data from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition observational study which suggested that TZD use is associated with increased loss of bone mineral density (BMD) in community dwelling older adults with type 2 diabetes...

News for Week #17 2006

GnRH Therapy Boosts Diabetes Risk in Men with Prostate Cancer
Cancerpage.com - Marietta,GA,USA
... As lead investigator Dr. Matthew R. Smith told Reuters Health, "GnRH agonists significantly decrease insulin sensitivity in nondiabetic men with prostate cancer ...

AACE: Insulin Not Sodium May Be Hypertension's Bad Actor
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
CHICAGO-Insulin rather than salt is the major driver of hypertension, according to an analysis of data from a prospective study of 23 patients with confirmed ...

Poisoning death rate increases
The Standard - Hong Kong
Fake Chinese medicines containing western chemicals and which claim to reduce blood sugar levels were responsible for at least three blood-poisoning cases last ...

EcoNugenicsŽ Granted New US Patent for Treatment of Diabetes and ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... According to the American Diabetes Association 20.8 million children and adults, 7.0% of the entire US population are diabetic. ...

NIH announces type 1 diabetes clinical trial
ResearchResearch - UK
... to provide anti-CD3 for use in a NIH-sponsored multi-center trial to evaluate the effects of anti-CD3 and exenatide on the loss of insulin production in ...

Insulin-producing beta cells are studied
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
BOSTON: Boston scientists say they have conclusively shown two receptors in the insulin-producing beta cell do not affect developmental growth. ...

Geron Announces Issuance of US Patent for Production of Insulin ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... US Patent No. 7,033,831, covering the production of insulin secreting cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The new patent ...

Danish shares close lower, led by AP Moeller, DS Torm, Danske Bank ...
Forbes - USA
... The insulin business seems to be performing very well. And Levemir (long-acting insulin analogue for the treatment of diabetes) has had a good start in the US. ...

Noninvasive Blood Glucose Monitors
Noninvasive monitoring means checking blood glucose levels without ... It must
be used along with conventional blood glucose monitoring of blood samples. ...

Diabetes must be a priority
Border Mail - Albury,New South Wales,Australia
... Type 2 diabetes some five to seven years before it becomes apparent through other means. Regional and rural areas are at greater risk of a diabetic population ...

Enbrel Decreases Inflammatory Markers in Metabolic Syndrome
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
... not reach statistical significance. No changes occurred in body composition parameters or insulin sensitivity. "It has been speculated ...

Gene chip used to find diabetes gene
United Press International - USA
... Medical School -- doing studies as part of the Diabetes Genome Anatomy ... mice, animals without the ARNT gene developed hyperglycemia and diabetic symptoms, while ...

Recent findings in diabetes described by researchers from Japan ...
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
According to recent research published in the journal Life Sciences, "Diabetic neuropathy, a major complication of diabetes mellitus, is associated with the ...

Lower Testosterone Levels Among Some Diabetic Patients May Lead to ...
DG News - USA
... Seven percent of American men have diabetes, so 7 million men in the US may have low testosterone levels, Dr. Bhatia said. In the study, the diabetic men who ...

Scientists Of The University Of Jaen Research Into The Benefits Of ...
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
... studies have now shown that an olive oil-rich diet prevents diabetes, as it ... also prevents a series of diseases that are very frequent in diabetic patients such ...

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Ceapro Inc for Product Innovation
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... earlier intervention in order to better manage, prevent or delay diabetes and mitigate its ... The turn- around time from pre-diabetic blood sugar levels to normal ...

Magnesium Keeps The Undertaker Away
Canada Free Press - Canada
... mg) of magnesium were one-third more likely to develop diabetes during the ... University, studied the blood pressure of patients who were both diabetic and non ...

Cat wakes boy, helping him avoid diabetic seizure
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... he'd be laid up in a hospital bed trying to recover from a diabetic seizure - or ... belly, clawed and batted him to wake the boy, who has Type 1 diabetes, just as ...

Big Brother Will See You Now
National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
... In contacting diabetes patients to urge them to follow various protocols to preserve ... New York City's law mandating the reporting of diabetic blood tests is a ...

Care of gums helps with diabetes control
Reuters - USA
... periodontitis -- can help people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels under control, Spanish and Portuguese researchers report. Diabetic patients have a ...

EU urges action to curb diabetes
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
... early diagnosis are crucial in cutting the number of diabetes victims - estimated at around 35 million worldwide in 2005. "Every 30 seconds, a diabetic loses a ...

Using Clinical Guidelines Designed for Older Adults With Diabetes ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... Intensive insulin therapy prevents the progression of diabetic microvascular complications in Japanese patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a ...

Pre- and Diagnosed Diabetics Learn a New and Effective Approach ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
BOSTON, MA. (PRWEB) April 25, 2006 -- Recent studies show those most at risk for insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and diabetic complications have ingrained ...

Diabetes 'an epidemic of modern times'
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... In the world, about 3.8 billion dollars were spent on diabetes medicines in 1995. ... 'Every 30 seconds, a diabetic loses a leg by amputation worldwide,' said Rauch ...

Diabetes fatality rate far higher than once thought
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... of diabetes patients, who usually have more complex conditions, more infections and complications, and stay in hospital twice as long as non-diabetic patients. ...

Israeli diabetes researcher lauded with US 'young investigator' ...
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... diabetic around the globe should find out his Haptoglobin type, and encourage diabetic patients to do the test. Blum's own grandmother suffers from diabetes. ...

Light Therapy For Diabetic Neuropathy
CBS 5 - Green Bay - WI
Or Poor Circulation In The Limbs That Destroys Nerves.. Is A Painful Consequence Of Uncontrolled Diabetes. There Are Few Effective Treatments.. ...

How Insulin-Producing Beta Cells Grow and Function
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise — A new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has shown conclusively that two receptors in the insulin-producing beta cell do not affect developmental ...

Novartis Delivers Strong Start to 2006 in First Quarter with ...
Houston Chronicle - United States
... on Galvus is planned to be presented at the American Diabetes Association meeting ... Novartis has stopped the development of Sandostatin in diabetic retinopathy.

University will cut drug costs in 2-year test
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
... The American Diabetes Association reports that nationally, the average annual health cost for a diabetic person was $13,243 in 2002, compared with $2,560 for a ...

Angry Pfizer says insulin inhaler veto is 'perverse'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... Dr Kate Lloyd, Pfizer UK medical director, maintained that the decision could deny the opportunity to start insulin treatment much earlier and cut future costs ...

Blood Sugar Readings In A Painless Blink Of The Eye
Diabetes in Control - USA
...
Oculir™ is developing a non-invasive glucose meter that measures glucose from the white of the eye (the conjunctiva). No contact with the eye is required ...

Healing Garlic
50 Connect - UK
... Not only does garlic reduce systolic blood pressure, it also has the ability to lower blood sugar, which makes it a very useful dietary tool in the treatment ...

The A to Z of Healthy Skin
Mumbai Mirror - India
... These foods cause blood sugar to climb rapidly causing the release of insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin helps cells soak up ...

New Devices May Free Diabetics From Constant Monitoring
Washington Post - United States
When Casey Burkhalter, 12, was diagnosed with diabetes 2 1/2 years ago, her parents started waking up repeatedly at night to test her blood sugar, typical of ...

Cheshire diabetic cycles home - from China
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
A CHESHIRE diabetic adventurer revealed how he hid his insulin needles from ... Mr Clapperton said his diabetes posed few problems, although it was sometimes ...

News for Week #16 2006

Nanoscience Becomes Latest Weapon in the Battle Against Illness
International News Service - Sydney,Australia
... College London, the development of non-invasive methods of monitoring diabetes is closer ... tattoo incorporating these that could be implanted in a diabetic's skin ...

Portland, Oregon Study Focuses On Anti Inflammatory Diet & ...
MedfordNews.com - Medford,OR,USA
... of the naturopathic anti-inflammatory diet with the standard diabetic diet. The study will look at the effects of these diets on diabetes, inflammation, the ...

Pioneering Bespak inhaler 'too dear'
Lynn News - King's Lynn,Norfolk,UK
The insulin inhaler, Exubera – designed as an alternative to injections, could now be left on the shelf after years of work by Bespak. ...

India's biggest biotech firm Biocon on Thursday reported a 12 per ...
India Daily - Whitehouse Station,NJ,USA
... However, the company expected its insulin to gain market share both in India and overseas markets, she said, adding this, together with branded formulations ...

Combination treatment may reverse diabetes
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... States (UPI) -- California researchers have developed a two-drug regimen that could free type 1 diabetes sufferers from from dependence on insulin and dietary ...

Living Better: Rethinking the approach to Type 2 diabetes
Merrimack River Current - Beverly,MA,USA
By Alice Greene/ Living Better. Have you, or someone you know, been told you have high blood sugar levels, Syndrome X or diabetes? ...

Low-carb diet checks insulin levels too
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
... Compared with the standard diet, the low-carb diet lowered insulin levels. Given these findings, they conclude that dietary management ...

Low-carb diet may help women with ovary problems
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
... Information Center. While the direct cause is not known, the condition is strongly associated with insulin resistance. European ...

Unique exercise program at KU Medical Center is customized for ...
KUMC Campus News (press release) - Kansas City,KS,USA
... of obesity. “Exercise can help these individuals control their weight and lower their blood sugar level,” she said. It can be ...

Potential cure for diabetes revealed
Unison.ie - Bray,Ireland
... cure". It could mean an end to the daily insulin injections and rigid dietary restrictions suffered by millions world-wide. The ...

Bezafibrate Slows Insulin Resistance in Coronary Patients
Medscape (subscription) - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 20 - The fibric acid derivative bezafibrate effectively attenuates the progression of insulin resistance in patients with ...

New Treatment for Type 1 to Be Studied
Diabetes Self Management - USA
... For reasons that aren’t known, in Type 1 diabetes the dendritic cells mistakenly identify the body’s own insulin-producing beta cells as foreign and point ...

Study: Eating less may help you live longer
Food Consumer - Lisle,IL,USA
April 4 (foodconsumer.org) - A low calorie diet may extend the human lifespan by lowering body temperature, insulin levels and reducing DNA damage, according ...

Insulin inhaler rejected as too 'costly'
4RFV - Belfast,Ireland
An inhaler which would allow diabetes sufferers to inhale, rather than inject insulin has been rejected for use in the NHS by the government's medicines ...

PhytoMedical's Ongoing Diabetes Research Validated By New Study
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
New study provides further evidence of the beneficial effects and biochemical actions of certain compounds in cinnamon that improve insulin function and lower ...

New Study Finds High Fructose Corn Syrup Has Same Effect on ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... study tested the effects of consuming beverages sweetened with HFCS or beverages sweetened with table sugar on circulating levels of blood sugar, insulin and ...

Alteon and HaptoGuard Announce Merger Agreement; Alteon Signs ...
Finanzen.net - Germany
... diseases, diabetes and other inflammatory diseases, including two Phase 2 clinical-stage compounds focused on cardiovascular diseases in diabetic patients. ...

Depression And Diabetes Are Mutually Exclusive.
MedIndia - India
... was conducted by the researchers at Suny Upstate University, Syracuse, New York, where about 1600 elderly diabetic, participated in a diabetes care management ...

Activists urge EU action on diabetes "pandemic"
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Bowis, himself diabetic, slammed a decision this week by the British health spending ... in Europe and the United States in January as a treatment for diabetes. ...

Blood Sugar Control Boosts Diabetics' Recovery After Surgery
Forbes - USA
The study included 490 diabetic patients, average age 71, who had major noncardiac ... Hb A1c level of less than 7 percent, the American Diabetes Association target ...

Sweet and sour
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
... and Research Foundation reveals that at least 14 per cent of Pune’s population is diabetic; a majority of these are children suffering from type 1 diabetes. ...

Rudyard native pens stressless diabetic cookbook
The Havre Daily News - Havre,MT,USA
Small Steps Press, the publishing arm of the American Diabetes Association, released “The Healthy Lunchbox,” a book by Marie McClendon and Cristy Shauck in ...

Row over diabetic drug
The Sun - UK
... year. Professor Tony Barnett, who runs one of the UK’s largest diabetes clinics in Birmingham said: “It’s very disappointing. ...

Half of Older Diabetics Go Without Key Heart Drugs
Forbes - USA
Even among diabetic patients with existing heart and kidney problem -- patients ... and ARBs have been recommended by US national diabetes-treatment guidelines for ...

Treatment Challenges in Schizophrenia: A Multifaceted Approach to ...
Psychiatric Times - Irvine,CA,USA
... diabetes (fasting plasma glucose level of 126 mg/dL or more) should in particular be monitored for symptoms of diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis, including ...

Depression Increases Mortality Risk in Diabetics
PakTribune.com - Pakistan
... deteriorate diabetic patients’ physical health," Zhang commented. Depression decreases the capacity for self-management, and for complying with diabetes care ...

Preop Glycemic Control in Diabetics Cuts Postop Infections
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
... For diabetic patients, tight long-term glucose control has greatly decreased many complications associated directly with diabetes, but whether long-term ...

Diabetics should get medical help as soon as possible
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
... And guys do you know that diabetes is one of the leading causes of erectile ... some to get to or get their significant other to the doctor for a diabetic screening ...

Diabetic mothers can breastfeed babies
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
New York: Mothers with type 1 diabetes are just as likely as other women to be able to breast-feed their babies, despite difficulties with blood sugar levels ...

Diabetes sufferers 'not being supported'
East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK
... not receiving or not retaining the education they require and are not able to sufficiently control their diabetes or self treat when suffering a diabetic attack ...

Researchers find potential diabetes treatment
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... converts sugar to energy in the body, according to the American Diabetes Association Web ... have found a way to help restore and preserve insulin in diabetic mice ...

Two test combination helps diabetics control blood sugar
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
In a review published in the recent edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the head of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Center urges ...

Insulin Syringes Recalled
WLTX.com - Columbia,SC,USA
(Coral Springs, FL) - Boca Medical Products, Inc., of Coral Springs, Florida is recalling 3984 boxes of Ultilet Insulin Syringe 30g 1/2cc product lot number ...

News for Week #15 2006

Pancreatic Cancer Linked To Insulin Resistance In Male Smokers
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows for the first time that male smokers with the highest insulin levels are ...

J&J to buy insulin delivery company Animas
ABC News - USA
... it agreed to acquire Animas Corp. , a maker of insulin delivery systems, for $518 million in cash. Johnson & Johnson, which sells ...

US Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 15: Insulin
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
One of the marvels of modern medicine —- insulin -— became generally available on this day in 1923, saving the lives of millions of people suffering from ...

Diabetes sufferers prefer oral management
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
... Federation (IDF). The problem seemed to affect both those taking insulin (55 per cent) and oral agents (69 per cent). "These findings ...

Emisphere to expand phase II oral insulin trial
Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA
Emisphere Technologies has completed enrollment of the first 120 patients in its phase II oral insulin clinical trial, and has received permission from ...

Mutated Protein in Cancer Found in Diabetes
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USA
Researchers in England found p110 alpha controls the action of insulin and other important hormones involved in growth, diabetes and obesity. ...

Aortic endothelial gene expressions were normalized after insulin ...
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
Aortic endothelial gene expressions and relaxation responses were normalized following chronic short-term insulin treatment in diabetic rats. ...

Approval of Integrated Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose System ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... a person with diabetes to maintain normal glucose levels by providing the right amount of insulin at the right time, just as the pancreas does in non-diabetic ...

MicroIslet Announces Encouraging Data From Islet Transplantation ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... therapy for people with insulin-dependent diabetes, today announced ... invasive transplantation of encapsulated porcine islets into diabetic primates resulted in ...

For Asian-Americans, diabetes rate is higher
Boston Globe - United States
... of obese adults rose 80 percent in the state, and diabetes incidence increased by ... 2004 Asian population were counted as obese, while 4.3 percent were diabetic. ...

PALAU: Top Illnesses Are Hypertension, Diabetes And Asthma
Pacific Magazine - Honolulu,HI,USA
Hypertension, diabetic mellitus and asthma are Palau’s top three chronic illnesses ... Those with diabetes accounted for 22.4 percent or a total of 495 cases ...

OmniPod(R) Insulin Management System Wins Medical Design ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
BEDFORD, Mass., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Insulet Corporation today announced that its OmniPodŽ Insulin Management System has received a 2006 Medical Design ...

Duquesne Enters Fight Against Diabetes
The Duquesne University Times - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... to participate, Duquesne will pay the full costs of all diabetes medications and related supplies. No prescription drug co-payments for diabetic medication or ...

MicroIslet Reveals Data From Islet Transplantation Studies In ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... invasive transplantation of encapsulated porcine islets into diabetic primates resulted in ... MicroIslet anticipates that some patients with diabetes may require ...

Emisphere Provides Update on Use of the eligen(R) Technology to ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... promising preclinical data from studies conducted by Emisphere and its academic collaborators demonstrating that the bioavailability of insulin via pulmonary ...

Glycemic Variability: A Hemoglobin A 1c –Independent Risk Factor ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... These new data reported by Monnier et al may explain how in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial the diabetic retinopathy risk at identical sustained ...

Amputations Caused by Diabetes Can Be Prevented
Southern Pines Pilot - Southern Pines,NC,USA
... a direct result of diabetes, and studies show half of those who have one foot or leg amputated will lose the other within five years. Proper diabetic foot care ...

Insoluble fibre could protect against diabetes, more evidence
NutraIngredients.com - Montpellier,France
12/04/2006 - A German clinical trial has reported that eating a fibre-enriched bread for only three days improved insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese ...

Man kills lover with overdose of insulin
Times of India - India
... In a macabre incident, a person allegedly killed his lover by administering an overdose of Daonil tablets, used in diabetes management, and an insulin shot in ...

Acarbose May Protect Endothelial Function in Type 2 Diabetics
Diabetes in Control - USA
...
in patients with type 2 diabetes, pre-meal treatment with the alpha-glucosidase inhibitor acarbose may help protect against endothelial dysfunction and perhaps future cardiovascular decline due to postprandial hyperglycemia ...

Big picture: 20M at risk for kidney disease
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... My main concerns with developing diabetes have always been my aversion to needles for daily insulin injections and my fear of losing a limb to the disease. ...

MicroIslet cash runs low; firm to to raise funds
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... positive data on the use of pig islets to reverse diabetes in monkeys ... demonstrated that the transplant treatment normalized blood glucose levels in diabetic mice ...

Assessing Glycemia in Diabetes Using Self-monitoring Blood Glucose ...
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... of HbA 1c is its use as a predictor of diabetic complications and ... Conclusion Assessing glycemia in diabetes can be a challenge, but approaches are available ...

Botox, Ginkgo may relieve diabetic nerve pain
Reuters.uk - UK
... Diabetic neuropathy is a term used for the nerve damage that occurs in people with diabetes and that often leads to pain, numbness, or tingling in the feet and ...

Diabetic Neuropathy Treatment Has Passed The First Clinical Trial
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... "Existing treatments for diabetic neuropathy are ... Kipnes, MD, a principal clinical investigator for Sangamo and Endocrinologist at the Diabetes and Glandular ...

Fish be with you
Manila Standard Today - Philippines
... that eating fish regularly reduced the risk of heart disease in diabetic women by as much as 64 percent. “We found that women with type 2 diabetes who ate ...

Periodontal therapy may help diabetic patients improve sugar ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... put diabetic patients who are just above the normal HbA1c range into the healthy range and reduce their risk of serious complications from diabetes.". ...

Group says diet drug linked to pre-cancer
Reuters - DC/USA
... Roche Holding AG's prescription diet drug Xenical should immediately be pulled from the U.S. market after recent data linked it to precancerous colon lesions in animal studies, a consumer group told federal health regulators on Monday ...

Its High Time the Australian Government Takes Steps against ...
MedIndia - India
... suburbs and south, through Campbelltown, past Wollongong to Shellharbour are highly diabetic. Dr Howard said Fairfield was the epicentre of diabetes in Sydney.

Depomedn Says Diabetic Drug Glumetza Shows Controlled Glucose ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(RTTNews) - Depomed, Inc. (DEPO | charts | news | PowerRating) revealed results of Phase III clinical trial of Glumetza for the treatment of Type II diabetes. ...

Taking charge of diabetes
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... “Diabetes is one of the most treatable diseases in the world. Especially if it's treated early,” says Dr. Steven Edelman, a diabetic who is an ...

AllMed Healthcare: Deciding the Medical Necessity of Insulin Pumps
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
AllMed Healthcare Management Medical Specialist Lewis Chase has recently authored a feature article “Diagnosing Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency” that is ...

Lethargy, sleepiness can be signs of bigger problem
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... more than 30 times a day and such extreme fatigue that he slept round-the-clock on the weekends that his roommate suggested he have his blood sugar measured. ...

Taking a crack at health myths
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA
... The levels of glucose — also called blood sugar — can fluctuate erratically with an unhealthy diet and the lack of exercise. ...

Generex Says Its Generex Oral-lyn, Oral Insulin Spray, Can Replace ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(GNBT | charts | news | PowerRating), a producer of buccal drug delivery and Generex Oral-lyn, oral insulin spray, said the investigators concluded, at the end ...

An ounce of prevention
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... Other factors are high cholesterol and blood sugar. ... When to test? If you have one of the risk factors, get a fasting blood sugar test annually. ...

Eat like birds and live longer!
Hindu - Chennai,India
Houston, April 10. (PTI): Calorie-restricted diets appear to improve the heart function and reduce two key signs of ageing - fasting insulin levels and body ...

Foot Ulcers and Diabetes
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... Fran Grey has a healthy sense of humor despite numerous medical setbacks related to diabetes, including a 5-way heart bypass. She's also a diabetic amputee. ...

Chrysler Pilot Program Improves Health of Diabetic Employees ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
The Chrysler Group of Daimler Chrysler found that employees with diabetes improved their health in a recent six-month pilot program in which they received ...

Quigley starts study of diabetes drug
United Press International - USA
... phase 1 and 2 studies of QR-333, a treatment for diabetes complications. ... the topical compound that is intended as a treatment for diabetic peripheral neuropathy ...

Diabetes crisis
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Diabetes is a chronic disease which limits lifespan; type 1 is an an auto-immune ... Mother of four-year-old type 1 diabetic Matt, Sandra Antulov, said funding was ...

Once-daily metformin effective in type 2 diabetes
Reuters - New York USA
... one daily dose of a new extended-release formulation of metformin is as safe and effective in treating type 2 diabetes as a conventional twice-a-day dose of immediate-release metformin, researchers report. ...

Disclose diabetes patient info? No
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... plague that diabetes has become. Only 15 years ago, 1 in 10 New Yorkers was obese. Now it is 1 in 5 and climbing. The health-care costs of a diabetic are three ...

Hope for diabetics
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
... be considered when there are millions of people in this country with diabetes ... it’s just so amazing.”. Doctors diagnosed DiBenedetto as a diabetic at 13. ...

Deadly lifestyles: diabetes soars in NSW
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas no longer produces insulin, allowing too much glucose to accumulate in the blood. Type ...

NIDDK: Hypoglycemia
Tells what it is, symptoms, and causes in people with or without diabetes.
Includes tips for eating right.

Are we safe at the hospitals?
The Daily Star - Bangladesh
... "The date expired fluid and blood sugar tube were found in the non-paying ward. This is the biggest proof of how we, non-paying ...

Hap1 protein links circulating insulin to brain circuits that ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Researchers have discovered how the protein Hap1, which is abundant in the brain's hypothalamus, serves as the link between circulating insulin in the blood ...

Cutting Calories May Help You Live Longer
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Reducing calories over six months resulted in a decrease in fasting insulin levels and body temperature, two biomarkers of longevity, according to a study in ...

Improved tool to assess glycemic status to be put to test
Hindu - Chennai,India
... If blood sugar readings provide a quick reference, glycohemoglobin levels present the big picture in glycemic control status. Diabetologists ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Common in Diabetics
ADA - Alexandria VA
...something like three out of every five patients with type 2 diabetes show signs of vitamin D deficiency, Italian researchers report in the medical journal Diabetes Care. "Our findings," Giovanni Targher told Reuters Health, "confirm some previous evidence demonstrating that vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in people with type 2 diabetes." Because a lack of vitamin D can negatively affect bone health and have other adverse effects, he added, "widespread screening for vitamin D deficiency or routine vitamin D supplementation should be seriously considered" for people with diabetes ...

Three-Week Diet/Exercise Study Shows 50% Reversal in Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes in Control - USA
..."This regimen reversed a clinical diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome in about half the participants who had either of those conditions" ...

News for Week #14 2006

UVa Researchers Find Treatment that Reverses Type 1 Diabetes
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
... This treatment also helped the mice to return to and maintain normal, healthy levels of blood sugar. Even after treatment was stopped ...

You can beat diabetes
Newindpress on Sunday - India
... manner. ‘Hurry hormones’ push up blood sugar levels. Tension results in release of stress hormones which can precipitate diabetes. ...

Losartan prevents life-threatening insulin resistance in burn ...
Hindu - Chennai,India
San Francisco, (EurekAlert)– Researchers have found a way to prevent insulin resistance in burn-injured rats, a finding that, while still quite preliminary ...

Controlling blood sugar saves lives
myDNA.com - Austin,TX,USA
If you are not a diabetic and are hospitalized for a serious injury or illness, your blood sugar is probably not of great concern to you. ...

Device to screen major diabetes complication
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
... India Private Ltd, has come out with an equipment, which helps in early screening of 'Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy' (DAN), a major diabetes complication. ...

Family could lose their home after court battle with charity
ic SouthLondon.co.uk - United Kingdom
... "We called it The Diabetes Foundation and later started another group called The Diabetic Society and that's where the problem began.". ...

Programs may cut DCX health costs
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Asheville, NC, reduced the average annual cost of care for diabetic workers by $2,000 per person as soon as it started paying the whole cost of diabetes drugs. ...

Sangamo Says Phase -1 Trial Of SB-509 In Patients With Diabetic ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and well tolerated. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is one of the most frequent complications of diabetes. The American Diabetes ...

Thousands in danger of losing free medication
Mid-Ocean News - Bermuda
... The Bermuda Diabetes Association (BDA), which supplies free insulin and needles for those in need, has been struggling for funds since last summer when the ...

Number of Kids on Type 2 Diabetes Drugs Doubles
Forbes - USA
... Diabetes Association, about 5 percent of all diabetics have the familial, type 1 form of diabetes, caused by a dysfunction in the cells that produce insulin. ...

ACCU-CHECK™ Ultraflex Insulin Infusion Set Recalled
All Headline News - USA
... infusion set. This can result in an insulin interruption that can possibly lead to hyperglycemia in the individual using the device. A ...

Lower Calorie Diets May Promote Longevity
WNEP-TV - Scranton,PA,USA
... Those on the super low-calorie plan lost weight, improved their insulin levels, lowered their metabolism, and had less dna damage-- all signs of a body that ...

US study links passive smoking to diabetes for the first time
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... found that during this time, 22 percent of smokers developed glucose intolerance - when the body can no longer produce the hormone insulin that regulates blood ...

FDA Won‘t Release Generic Insulin Guide
The Westfall Weekly News - Canada
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration will not release long-delayed guidelines specifically for the production of generic versions of insulin and human ...

Dubious PepsiCo-Funded Study Claims Body Handles HFCS No ...
The Common Voice - Greenville,SC,USA
... women. What's more, their levels of blood sugar, insulin, and satiety hormones were tested for one day. Not weeks, months, years. ...

Dermisonics, Inc. Recruits Patients to Proceed With Human Pilot ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... drug-delivery technology, has begun recruiting recipients to proceed with a planned Human Pilot Trial-2 on its U-Strip(TM) delivery system for use with insulin ...

Live longer with low cal diet
Irish Health - Ireland
... Journal of the American Medical Association found that a low calorie diet can help you live longer by lowering body temperature, lowering insulin levels and ...

Some diabetic kids may need depression check-up
Zee News - Noida,India
New York, Apr 05: Poor blood sugar control and frequent emergency room visits are among the signs that a child or adolescent with diabetes may be suffering ...

Losartan Prevents Insulin Resistance from Burns
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise — Researchers have found a way to prevent insulin resistance in burn-injured rats, a finding that, while still quite preliminary, could eventually ...

Diabetes soars among youths
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... 1,000 15- to 19-year-olds had been prescribed medication to treat or prevent Type 2 diabetes, in which people respond abnormally to the insulin their bodies ...

Under attack
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
... Blood clots are associated with excess blood sugar, cholesterol, obesity and inflammation and some researchers feel all these ailments are interconnected at a ...

Diabetics' acidity hikes kidney stone risk
United Press International - USA
... More than 18 million people in the United States live with diabetes, a chronic disease that affects the body's ability to produce or respond to insulin. ...

Pair of spices could boost insulin function
ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
April 4, 2006 - Cinnamon and cloves are also proving beneficial. Two new studies suggest the spices boost insulin function while lowering cholesterol. ...

Eating breakfast keeps calorie counts down
SheKnows.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
... and a swig of juice! That sort of thing will only cause a spike in your blood sugar and leave you ravenous in an hour and a half. ...

MedlinePlus: Diabetes
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Nurse knew laughter, music, knowledge healed
Payson Roundup - Payson,AZ,USA
... Because she had diabetes, whenever a patient with diabetes was on the floor where she worked, the diabetic patient was assigned to her. ...

5-year study on pediatric diabetes prevention announced
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... US children ages 12 to 19 have a pre-diabetic condition linked to obesity and inactivity that puts them at risk for full-blown diabetes and cardiovascular ...

Spring Your Health Into Shape This Season With Almonds
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... The first study measured almonds' effect on blood sugar levels, demonstrating that almonds, a food that causes a minimal rise in blood sugar levels (called low ...

Diabetes Care Still Lagging in US
Forbes - USA
... There have also been small improvements in blood sugar control and yearly eye and foot examinations, all important components of the regular care of diabetics. ...

Liver signal critical for insulin's brain action
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
New research in the April 5, 2006 Cell Metabolism identifies a key player in the body's ability to respond to insulin action in the brain by ratcheting down ...

Significant improvement noted in diabetes management using chronic ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... They also were encouraged to refer their diabetic patients to the on-site diabetes educator for more information whenever possible. ...

Diabetes figures could double within 10 years
Sligo Weekender - Sligo,Ireland
... Thousands of people suffer from diabetes in the north west. The majority of those are Type 2 diabetic with the remaining being Type 1. ...

Akesis Pharmaceuticals Announces Private Placement
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... property for both prescription and over-the-counter treatments, which uniquely combine anti-diabetic trace minerals with all classes of diabetes oral agents. ...

First Consensus Guidelines for Diabetes-Related Pain
Newswise (press release) - USA
... About half of all people with diabetes mellitus have some form of neuropathy (nerve damage). The most common type is diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN ...

Assessment of Myocardial Metabolism in Diabetic Rats Using Small ...
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
... Results: Consistent with a type 2 diabetic phenotype, the ZDF animals showed higher ... that occur in this well-characterized model of type 2 diabetes mellitus. ...

Improvements in Diabetes Care in the United States, 1988–2002
Annals of Internal Medicine - USA
... In both types, the result is high blood sugar levels. Over time, high blood sugar levels can lead to blindness, kidney failure, nerve ...

Smoking May Increase Risk Of Diabetes
Science Daily (press release) - USA
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Smoking may increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University School of ...

Chromium of no help for poorly controlled diabetes
Reuters Health - New York
... Contrary to expectations, high-dose chromium supplementation does not improve blood-sugar control or other parameters in obese patients with poorly controlled, insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, according to a new study ...

Dumaguing: How sweet is your heart?
Sun.Star - Philippines
... More than one in four additional subjects had impaired glucose tolerance, a pre-diabetic condition that frequently progresses to full-blown diabetes over time. ...

'Converge clinical practice with medical research'
News Today - India
... Quoting an international newspaper, she said there were nearly 34 billion diabetic patients in India and the medications or drugs for diabetes should be made ...

Deals, Diabetes and Specialty Drugs
Barron's (subscription) - USA
... new entrant in inhaled insulin and select diabetes derivatives such as Keryx Biopharmaceuticals with a Phase III product for diabetic ...

pSivida News: Retisert(TM) Slows Progression of Diabetic ...
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
... Diabetic Retinopathy occurs when diabetes damages the tiny blood vessels inside the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. ...

Nutrition Wise: Healthy Angel Food Cake, Goat Cheese, Soft ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... cholesterol, it's an excellent choice. Its effect on weight control and blood sugar gets a little more confusing. If you are eating equal ...

Deadly timebomb of 700,000 obese children
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... There is little or no screening for blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar problems in children. Will ad ban discourage kids from eating junk food? ...

Workout plan fine if diabetes under control
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Q: I am a 62-year-old woman, 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 127 pounds with high blood sugar. ... It is important to check your blood sugar before doing any exercise. ...

Watch The Story of Insulin
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin in 1921. This led to the use of insulin as a treatment for diabetes, which ...

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MediaSyndicate (press release) - USA
... Perfectly normal, healthy individuals can experience temporary conditions of low blood sugar after consuming small amounts of alcohol, resulting in exaggerated ...

Oral Human Insulin to Soon Go on Trial
MedIndia - India
Biocon's 'oral human insulin' is to soon go on Phase I trial. It maybe as early as a month – declared the MD of Biocon, Ms.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. ...

Whole grains good for the diabetic heart
Reuters - USA
... a diet high in whole grains and low in glycemic load will help diabetic patients to ... are based on an analysis of data from 902 women with diabetes who were ...

Cookbook offers healthy recipes for people with diabetes
ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
... In addition to "Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking," there are other cookbooks for people with diabetes. For more information visit www.amazon.com.

Whole grain, fibre diet offers boost to diabetes women
Unison.ie - Bray,Ireland
... high in whole grains and low in glycemic load will help diabetic patients to ... are based on an analysis of data from 902 women with diabetes who participated in ...

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