Current Diabetes News Clips 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) may be reading.....

Week of 29 June 2009
(and previous 11 weeks)

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News for Week #39 2008

As industrializing world adopts Western habits (ed."Coca-Colonization"), disease on rise
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Every 30 seconds, a person loses a leg to diabetes, a disease of high blood sugar that can result in amputations, blindness and heart failure. ...

Amylin Resurrects Obesity Drug, in New Combination with Diabetes ...
Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
... thinks it has found a way to bring leptin back to life as a weight-loss drug, as part of a new combination with Symlin, a drug it markets for diabetes. ...

Amylin Resurrects Obesity Drug, in New Combination with Diabetes ...
Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
... thinks it has found a way to bring leptin back to life as a weight-loss drug, as part of a new combination with Symlin, a drug it markets for diabetes. ...

Researchers Find New Pathway Linked to Obesity
InjuryBoard.com - Tampa,FL,USA
New research published in the October issue of the journal Cell suggests overeating activates a metabolic response usually inactive in hypothalamus - middle ...

Police: Diabetic reaction contributed to two-car collision
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
By AN OD STAFF WRITER A Sherrill man was ticketed after experiencing a diabetic reaction that contributed to a two-car collision Thursday evening in New ...

Pacific Biometrics Inc. Reports FY2008 Operating Results
MarketWatch - USA
These contracts involve our core areas of technological expertise, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, ...

Cardiovascular Disease- The Big Killer
Mmegi Online - Gaberones,Botswana
Free blood pressure, blood sugar and body mass testing will be given to all members of the public together with many other activities to be held at the same ...

Michigan Bill Would Protect Doctors Who Flag Unfit Drivers
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
The legislation also could apply to doctors whose patients have diabetes, hypoglycemia or heart problems, the AP explains. The state trial lawyers want to ...

Data From One-Year Liraglutide Phase 3 Study Published Online In
BioResearch Online (press release) - Horsham,PA,USA
Moreover, the treatment with liraglutide led to weight loss, reduced systolic blood pressure and lowered rates of hypoglycemia after 52 weeks of treatment. ...

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Commences Phase 2A Trials of its Oral ...
ADMET.net (press release) - Sudbury,UK
Oramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that it has commenced Phase 2A studies of ORMD 0801, its oral insulin capsule, on Type 1 diabetics at the ...

Novo slides, Citi wary on liraglutide
Forbes - NY,USA
... (nyse: C - news - people ) cuts its target price for the stock to 295 crowns from 315, due to worries about experimental diabetes drug liraglutide. ...

Nomad Bioscience: New Plant Biotechnology Company Founded to Focus ...
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
NOMAD's pharmaceutical portfolio is focused on three 'biosimilar' versions of the proteins currently constituting a $15 B market: Insulin, ...

Metabolic and cardiovascular risk in patients with a history of ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Significantly higher insulin and lower HDL-cholesterol levels were recorded in DTC subjects. In both groups, insulin levels were significantly related with ...

Controlling Insulin Is Good For Diabetes - And Breast Cancer?
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Doctors have long encouraged patients with diabetes to exercise regularly to help control their insulin levels and to maintain a healthy weight. ...

Strict Blood Sugar Control in Type 1 May Reduce Risk of High Blood Pressure
HealthandAge.com
Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle looked at the effects of hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, and intensive insulin treatment on the ...

Insulin Pumps Kill Teenagers
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) More than a thousand diabetic teenagers have been injured and more than a dozen killed through the use of insulin pumps, according to a study ...

Dramatic Rise In Childhood Diabetes Found
New York Sun - United States
By Staff Reporters of the Sun | September 29, 2008 A dramatic rise in the number of North Dakota children with Type 2 diabetes — a form of diabetes normally ...

Excessive Cleanliness Could Up Risk of Diabetes
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Children raised in obsessively clean households could be more likely to develop diabetes, Bristol University scientists have claimed. ...

News for Week #38 2008

Excessive Fructose Intake, Not Starch Leads To Metabolic Syndrome ...
The Common Voice - Greenville,SC,USA
Physicians refer to this as “metabolic syndrome” and it is the best predictor of who will become diabetic in the future. Interestingly, there is now ...

Continuous Glucose Monitoring In Diabetic Pregnant Women Lowers ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
25, 2008) — Continuous glucose monitoring as part of antenatal care for women with diabetes improves maternal blood glucose control and lowers birth weight ...

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: 1 Gene Increases Risk, 1 Gene ...
WebMD - USA
As one might think, obesity and the cluster of symptoms known as the metabolic syndrome are linked to NAFLD. Yet some people with these risk factors get the ...

In Exubera’s Shadow: Generex Bets Oral Spray Is Next Big Thing for ...
BNET - San Francisco,Ca,USA
By Jim Edwards As companies bail out of the inhaled insulin business — most recently Pfizer, which lost $2.8 billion before throwing Exubera overboard — one ...

Rise in North Dakota Children With Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Obesity
FOXNews - USA
Type 2 diabetes, which stems from the body's failure to properly use insulin, typically is seen in people middle-age and older, said Sherri Paxon, ...

Hollis-Eden reports positive interim data from Phase I/II diabetes ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The additional data showed that Triolex is safe and well tolerated to date, and that it significantly improved insulin sensitivity and lowered fasting blood ...

EnteroMedics Reveals Data on Vbloc Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes and ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
The results demonstrated that VBLOC Therapy might be promising to improve comorbidities of diabetes and hypertension independent of, and prior to, ...

Novo to start liraglutide obesity study this year
Reuters - USA
Novo has already filed for regulatory approval in major markets for the drug as a treatment of type 2 diabetes. Novo said ahead of a capital markets ...

Data Safety Monitoring Board supports continuation of trial of ...
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
The trial is studying the use of Medidur FA for the treaent of diabetic macular edema (DME) being conducted by our licensing partner, Alimera Sciences. ...

ARB May Retard Diabetic Retinopathy for Some Patients
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
25 -- An angiotensin receptor blocker may help prevent retinopathy in type 1 diabetes or treat it in type 2 disease, researchers here concluded from three ...

UCB receives EU setback for drug in diabetic pain
Reuters - USA
BR: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) withdrew its EU application to sell Vimpat, or lacosamide, as a treatment for diabetic neuropathic pain on ...

Six million diabetics in Turkey
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
In addition, approximately 3 million of the 6 million were unaware of their illness, according to the research, conducted by the Metabolic Syndrome ...

Health Experts Call for New Strategies to Combat Alarming Rise in ...
MarketWatch - USA
Experts have predicted that by 2025, the number of people with diabetes will have increased by 20 per cent within Europe, 80 percent within Eastern ...

Novel Attempt Of Gene Therapy For Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Science Daily (press release) - USA
And there is no report for application of chitosan as a vector in the gene therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus. A new research article addresses this ...

Barack Obama Stem Cell Research Ad Ignores Best Diabetes Hope ...
LifeNews.com - Helena,MT,USA
The ad, which features a mother of a child with juvenile diabetes, also ignores how adult stem cell research provides the most hope for patients. ...

Elevated Plasma Fibrinogen and Diabetes Mellitus Are Associated ...
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
Elevated fibrinogen level was associated with diabetic status, resulting in lower PI in diabetic patients (23.9% vs. 45.1, p < 0.001), but not in ...

Weight management has lasting effects in diabetics
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Among the participants taking short-acting insulin, 21 percent were able to quit, while the rest of those on insulin therapy cut their dosage by more than ...

Diabetes and Large Pouch Size Predict Poor Gastric Bypass Outcome
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
15 -- Patients are less likely to achieve expected weight loss after bariatric surgery if they have diabetes or if the surgeon created a relatively large ...

Sangamo BioSciences Announces Presentation of Data From Diabetic ...
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
Positive Interim Data from Ongoing SB-509-701 Study in Subjects with Moderate to Severe Diabetic Neuropathy and Additional Data from Phase 1b Clinical Trial ...

Blood pressure may predict retinopathy in adolescent type 1 diabetes
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes and systolic or diastolic blood pressure on or above the 90th percentile may be at an increased risk for retinopathy. ...

New Drug Might Help Diabetics Lose Weight
13WHAM-TV - Rochester,NY,USA
A new class of drugs may soon be on the market to help people with diabetes balance blood sugar and lose weight. To control blood sugar levels, ...

Novo Nordisk’s Liraglutide Shows Promise against Type 2 Diabetes ...
Medi News Direct - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Insulin-modified intravenous glucose tolerance tests were used to measure the secretion of first and second-phase insulin. The researchers noted that the ...

High Growth Reported for the World Insulin Pumps (External) Market
MarketWatch - USA
Diabetes & Insulin - An Abstract II-5 Diabetes II-5 A Fatal Disease II-5 Table 1: Leading Countries Worldwide in Terms of Diabetes Population (includes ...

USF proposes hospital dedicated to diabetes
Bay News 9 - Tampa,FL,USA
TAMPA (Bay News 9) -- The University of South Florida is proposing to build a hospital exclusively dedicated to diabetes. According to Bay News 9's partner ...

Alogliptin improved glycemic control; had no effect on ...
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Addition of alogliptin to insulin therapy reduces HbA1c without increasing weight gain or hypoglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes. ...

News for Week #37 2008

Ramadan diet poses health risk - experts
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
"High incidences of diabetes and hypertension in the Muslim community are aggravated by bad diets during Ramadan," ...

Prevent Diabetic Ills With Chamomile Tea?
WebMD - USA
A new study shows the tea may help prevent the development of diabetic complications, such as loss of vision, nerve damage, and kidney damage. ...

EASD: Once-Weekly Exenatide Benefit Sustained Over 52 Weeks
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
And exenatide reduced both hemoglobin AIc and fasting plasma glucose without increasing the risk of hypoglycemia, Dr. Buse said, noting that over 52-weeks ...

Lifestyle, Not Drugs, for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
September 11, 2008 (Rome, Italy) — Lifestyle changes, not drugs, should be the main focus for preventing type 2 diabetes: that was the conclusion of a ...

DIRECT: candesartan reduced regression, incidence of diabetic ...
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
These findings were presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. DIRECT-Prevent 1 is a primary prevention ...

The APOA5 Trp19 allele is associated with metabolic syndromevia ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The goal of the present study was to assess the effect of genetic variability at the APOA5/A4/C3/A1 cluster locus on the risk of metabolic syndrome. ...

Prof Zimmet, IDI and the Genetics of Diabetes in Mauritius
Mauritius Times - Mauritius
Professor Paul Zimmet AO MD PhD FRACP FRCP FTSE is the person who can be said to have put Mauritius on the world map of diabetes and the non-communicable ...

Transition Therapeutics Dose First Patient in Phase 2 Clinical ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Approximately 80 patients with type 2 diabetes are expected to be enrolled in the study and will receive a daily treatment of TT-223 in addition to their ...

Coronary Heart Disease Risk Increases Over Time in Patients With ...
DG News - USA
The researchers calculated 10-year risk for CHD and incidence of the metabolic syndrome at baseline and several times during the 4-year follow-up period. ...

MannKind Dedicates New Insulin Production Facility Sept. 17 in ...
MarketWatch - USA
The events in Danbury are scheduled to include an announcement of the proposed marketing trade name for the company's Technosphere(R) Insulin System, ...

Alzheimer's plaques reduced by diabetes therapy
HealthCentral.com - Arlington,VA,USA
... those who also had diabetes and were treated with insulin and oral hypoglycemic drugs had lower densities of neural plaques in the brain, a hallmark of ...

Five New Studies at Major Medical Meeting Further Demonstrate ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The studies assessed JANUVIA as monotherapy, initial combination therapy with metformin or add-on therapy to oral antihyperglycemic agents (metformin, ...

UKPDS Follow-Up analysis suggests Oxford diabetes group may be somewhat scientifically dishonest
The Associated Press -
Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar — even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed — have lower risks of heart attack, ...

Novel Short-Term Weight-Loss Approach Works Long-Term
Diabetes in Control
A study by researchers from the Joslin Diabetes Center has shown for the first time that more than half of patients with type 2 diabetes who enrolled in a novel short-term weight management program were able to maintain the weight loss they achieved during the program on their own long-term. The focus was on weight loss and not as much on glucose control ...

New Analysis Shows Lower Not Necessarily Better When It Comes to BP
Diabetes in Control
New observational analysis of the ONTARGET study shows that lower is not necessarily better when it comes to blood pressure in this patient population, with coronary heart disease or diabetes plus additional risk factors. Although there was evidence that lower was better in terms of stroke, there was a suggestion of harm when BP was reduced below 130 mm Hg systolic for the outcome of cardiovascular death in diabetics. The findings suggest that in high-risk people, the [current] guidelines of 'the lower, the better' may not apply ...

Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Better Than Multiple Daily ...
DG News - USA
By Jill Stein ROME -- September 9, 2008 -- Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes and their babies benefit more from use of continuous subcutaneous insulin ...

Continuous Glucose Monitoring FAILS Primary Efficacy Endpoint to Improve A1c in Type 1 Diabetics
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
The frequency of combined outcome of a 26-week glycated hemoglobin <7% and no severe hypoglycemic events was 30% in the continuous monitoring group and 7% ...

News for Week #36 2008

Diabetes on the rise in US
Americus Times-Recorder - Americus,GA,USA
As a diabetic, one should know that the food eaten directly affects blood sugar levels. To combat the disease, eat more healthful and exercise more. ...

Obesity crisis grows out of proportion
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
“The obesity epidemic in Australia is having a direct and catastrophic influence on increasing the incidence of Type 2 diabetes,” he said after receiving ...

Many diabetics take wrong medicines
The Press Association -
Patients over 40 with type one and two diabetes should be taking medication to prevent the formation of blood clots or reduce cholesterol levels in order to ...

Diabetes not associated with depression
Online - International News Network - Islamabad,Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: People with diabetes are no more likely than the general population to have depression, according to study results reported in the journal ...

Mildly Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcers - Oculus Innovative Sciences ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Following a review of the Phase II data on MicrocynŽ Technology for the treatment of mildly infected diabetic foot ulcers, the FDA agreed: - Oculus may move ...

New UK guidance on insulin pumps gives school kids with diabetes ...
MTBeurope - UK
New UK guidance on the use of insulin pump therapy from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) looks set to revolutionise the way ...

Pre-diabetes is worth treating
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Pre-diabetics have problems responding to insulin, the hormone that processes glucose in the body, causing the rise in blood sugar levels -- in medical ...

Early cousin of aspirin used to treat Type 2 diabetes
Northwest Cable News - Portland,OR,USA
"We've shown that using the drug for short periods of time can lower blood sugars both before people eat and after they eat and their average blood sugar ...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids, but Not Statin Therapy, Cuts Mortality and Hospitalizations in Heart Failure
Medscape Cardiology News
Omega-3 fatty-acid supplementation improves morbidity and mortality in symptomatic heart-failure patients, while statins failed ...

‘Together Against Diabetes’ in Al Ain Hospital
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
AL AIN - A campaign titled “Together Against Diabetes” is currently under way at Al Ain Hospital to raise awareness of the disease and the risk factors ...

Filter Your Diabetes Risk Out of Tap Water
HealthNews - Carslbad,CA,USA
Researchers announced recently that small amounts of arsenic found in tap water could increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, and that filtration helps ...

News for Week #35 2008

Gestational diabetes usually doesn't linger
South Coast Today - New Bedford,MA,USA
My doctor checked my blood sugar, and I have diabetes. How can this be? No one in my family has it, and I feel well except for the usual complaints of ...

‘There is no cure ... it is terrible’
The National - Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
When the Emirati man finally decided to get retested, his blood sugar levels were off the chart. “When I went to the medical centre and was diagnosed they ...

Meds Shmeds, Gimme Fries
Newsweek - USA
Then she told me what was really on her mind: her daughter wanted to fit in at school; load up on french fries and ice cream, and stop taking her insulin. ...

Stevia is all-natural and calorie-free, but is it safe?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
(In Paraguayan traditional medicine, stevia is used to lower blood sugar and as a contraceptive.) Evidence of genetic and reproductive toxicity was ...

Stroke Incidence Declines Among Swedish Diabetics
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
The incidence of strokes among diabetics in Northern Sweden declined between 1985 and 2003, according to a population-based study published in Stroke: ...

News for Week #34 2008

86 Years After Insulin, Type I Diabetes Drugs Promise More
BioWorld Online - Atlanta,GA,USA
This was Type I diabetes before insulin. That was prior to 1922 when Frederick Banting and Charles Best began the first insulin injections, moving from bed ...

Popular BP drugs may cause diabetes
Times of India - India
Recent research in the UK indicates that these drugs could increase blood sugar in patients suffering from diabetes, and in some cases led to onset of the ...

Bisphenol A exposure can increase risk of Diabetes and Heart Attacks
Environmental Expert (press release) - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
These results implicate BPA as a potential cause of metabolic syndrome, one of the most serious and costly public health problems in the US. ...

Diabetic driver given ticket for stopping due to illness
Harrow Observer - London,UK
A diabetic driver is fuming after being given a parking ticket for stopping when he became ill behind the wheel. On June 25, John Turner,from Lincoln, ...

Obesity risks higher than thought
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
AUSTRALIANS with obesity are at significantly higher risk than previously thought of suffering illness, including diabetes, heart attack, ...

Study Indicates Clinical Practice Standards in Lower-Extremity ...
HealthNewsDigest.com - New York,NY,USA
Pressure mitigation is crucial for the healing of plantar diabetic foot ulcers, the authors stress. The three-year study evaluated nearly 900 diabetic foot ...

Lidocaine Patch Soothes Neuropathic Pain as Effectively as ...
DG News - USA
While the 2 treatments alleviated to a similar extent the pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) and painful diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN), ...

Stroke Rate in Diabetes Creeping Downward by Risk Management
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
21 -- Aggressive diabetes risk management here appears to have lessened the rate of stroke and mortality for the first time for these patients, ...

Diet, management crucial in laminitis fight
Horsetalk - Canterbury,New Zealand
Laminitis is now considered a systemic disease which shows itself at the foot, with obesity and insulin resistance known to be risk factors. ...

Insulin suppresses receptors that cause inflammation
University at Buffalo Reporter - Buffalo,NY,USA
By LOIS BAKER UB researchers—the first to identify the anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective properties of insulin—now have discovered one pathway through ...

Obesity: Scientists identify a protein that promotes the burning ...
guardian.co.uk - UK
In their experiments, Yu-Hua Tseng's team at the Joslin Diabetes Centre at Harvard Medical School looked at the factors that determine the amounts of ...

Arsenic and diabetes may be linked
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Given the prevalence of diabetes in the United States - and of low levels of arsenic in some drinking water supplies, both public and private - a link could ...

Study finds link to diabetes in black women who drink sodas ...
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
But Johnson has one bad habit that researchers at Boston University now have linked to diabetes in black women. "I'm a Pepsi addict. I don't smoke. ...

Diabetic Driver Blamed For Deadly Crash
WKRG-TV - Mobile,AL,USA
Pollock tells News Five that Taylor, who had just picked up a cake for his mom's 87th birthday, was diabetic, and he may have become disoriented. ...

Metagenics Phytochemical Research Presented at Leading ...
NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
Metagenics, Inc. said today that its research on the efficacy of hops and acacia in treating metabolic syndrome and hypercholesterolemia was presented at a ...

Best Practice Database Supports Bio-Pharma Product Launch
MarketWatch - USA
One study, "Exubera Case Study: Misjudging the Market," reviews the failed strategy and tactics utilized by Pfizer for the launch of its inhaled insulin ...

Korean, Hong Kong Scientists Make Diabetic Findings
KBS - Seoul,South Korea
An institute on diabetes and internal diseases at Seoul National University Hospital said it analyzed a diabetic gene in Asian people and determined how it ...

Diet, exercise together best for losing weight
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
Visceral fat seems to promote metabolic syndrome, the medical term for an unhealthy combination of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, insulin resistance ...

US seeks more warnings for Amylin diabetes drug
guardian.co.uk - UK
Launched in mid-2005, Byetta was thought to have wide potential use, in part because of its ability to help type II diabetes patients lose weight. ...

Doctors make arm do job of pancreas
Houston Chronicle - United States
The research, conducted on the first patient a month ago, is part of an ongoing inquiry into how best to prevent diabetes in a person whose pancreas has ...

Arsenic has firm link to diabetes in US study
Reuters UK - UK
By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Arsenic, a naturally occurring poison and carcinogen found in ground water, is strongly linked to adult-onset diabetes, ...

Obesity Rates Up in 37 States: Report
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
The report said that rates of type 2 diabetes -- a disease typically associated with obesity -- increased in 26 states last year. ...

Tas scientists make diabetes breakthrough
ABC Online - Australia
Tasmanian scientists are one step closer to slowing the rapid rise in the incidence of type 2 diabetes, with groundbreaking new research. ...

A Randomized Comparison of Sirolimus- Versus Paclitaxel-Eluting ...
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
This trial was aimed at performing a head-to-head comparison between sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) in diabetic ...

Novo Nordisk Shares Fall on Concerns New Drug May Face Scrutiny
Bloomberg - USA
19 (Bloomberg) -- Novo Nordisk A/S, the world's biggest insulin maker, fell to its lowest level in two weeks in Copenhagen trading after a drug similar to ...

Effects of Statin Treatment in Men and Women With Stable Coronary ...
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
... with coronary heart disease and metabolic syndrome: A subgroup analysis of the GREek Atorvastatin and Coronary heart disease Evaluation (GREACE) study. ...

Telik licenses ReceptorBio to develop and commercialize insulin ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
The compounds might be potential drug candidates for advancing the treatment of Type-2 diabetes mellitus and the Insulin Resistance/Metabolic Syndrome, ...

Body Type: Are You an Apple or a Pear?
ABC News - USA
If you have these metabolic factors, chances are you are apple-shaped. In fact, I call the metabolic syndrome the "apple-syndrome" because having an apple ...

XTend Medical (XMDC) Secures $1 Million Financing Package to ...
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
Our Remote Diabetic Patient Monitoring Program has been well received thus far with the patients and physicians we currently work with and we've had several ...

Retinopathy without diabetes still a major CHD risk factor
Pulse - London,UK
By Nigel Praities GPs should evaluate and manage the coronary risk of patients with retinopathy, regardless of diabetes status, say researchers. ...

Study touts weight loss for newly diabetic
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Researchers from Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Ore., reviewed the medical records of 2574 newly diagnosed diabetics between the ages of 21 and 75 and ...

Heart disease risk soars with obesity, diabetes
Frontier Post - Peshawar,Pakistan
PESHAWAR (Monitoring): People who are both obese and have diabetes are highly likely to develop heart disease during their lifetime, a new study shows. ...

7% of Korean Adults Diabetic
KBS - Seoul,South Korea
According to a survey by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Ajou University Hospital, the number of diabetics has more than doubled ...

Australian scientists develop potential "blockbuster" diabetes drug
AFP -
Kelly said while the drug would not prevent diabetes -- a chronic illness in which the body fails to produce enough of the hormone insulin to process sugar ...

Biological Functions of Antioxidants in Plant Transformation
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Hyperhydricity results in a general decrease in concentrations of reduced and oxidized pyridine nucleotides, reflecting a reduction in metabolic activity ...

Gene 'can double risk of diabetes'
Scotsman - United Kingdom
SCIENTISTS have identified a gene which dramatically raises the risk of diabetes – offering hope for new tests and treatments. People with two copies of the ...

Tas doctors find link between cystic fibrosis, diabetes
ABC Online - Australia
But he says now doctors have made this link, insulin treatment may further increase life expectancy. "They are now put on to insulin once or twice or four ...

Diabetes database helps chart rate of disease in Oregon
KTVZ - Bend,OR,USA
(AP) - Schools across Oregon are contributing to a new database that charts the scope of childhood diabetes in Oregon. The goal, public health officials say ...

Dog sniffs out trouble for boy with diabetes
WBBH - Fort Myers,FL,USA
FORT MYERS: As a diabetic patient, 8-year-old Anthony Mastrapola knows it’s important to monitor his blood sugar level. But he doesn’t always notice the ...

A tablet a day may cast dialysis away
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Diabetic Lionel Alexander, who needs nightly dialysis, says he wishes there had been a drug like FT-11 "before my kidneys went". Photo: Rebecca Hallas EVERY ...

Four Drug Companies Vying for Diabetes Patients
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
The report highlights the level of communication between patients and healthcare providers relating to insulin injections and also spotlights how those ...

News for Week #33 2008

Reuters Health News Summary
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
Researchers found that of more than 3400 adults in a long-running US heart study, women who were obese and diabetic had a nearly 80 percent chance of ...

Chinese medicine linked to health scare
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Glibenclamide is a drug used to lower blood sugar in some people with diabetes. It can cause dangerously low blood sugar if used inappropriately or in ...

MedlinePlus: Combo of diabetes drugs may increase mortality
MedlinePlus - USA
Aug 14, 2008 ... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Combination treatment for type 2 diabetes using two classes of drugs -- metformin and sulfonylureas -- may ...

Experts foretell diabetes epidemic, glaring social costs
Medill Reports - Chicago,IL,USA
The long-term relationship between obesity and type 2 diabetes is still coming into focus, specialists say, pointing to disease- rate disparities in Chicago ...

OcuScience invention aims to help detect diabetes early, save ...
MLive.com - MI,USA
AP UPDATES by Gary Gosselin | Ann Arbor Business Review Early diabetes detection may take a giant leap forward with a new invention and test being readied ...

Diabetes - SF-1019 Receives Approval For Treatment, Marketing And ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
This research suggests that SF-1019 has the potential to affect a number of clinical conditions including complications from Diabetes Mellitus such as ...

Prevendia's test helps spot insulin resistance
San Jose Business Journal (subscription) - CA,USA
What it does: Prevendia Inc. is a medical diagnostic company that determines a person's insulin resistance by analyzing a small blood sample and delivering ...

Diabetic driver leads police on two-state pursuit
Eagle Tribune - North Andover,MA,USA
By Mark E. Vogler DERRY — Police say a diabetic reaction contributed to a driver's hit-and-run accident on Interstate 93 in Massachusetts shortly after 5 pm ...

Trends in Diabetes Research
Express Healthcare Management - Mumbai,India
Against the increasing diabetes disease burden, the insulin and OAD (Oral-Anti-diabetic) drug segments are bound to see robust growth. ...

Diabetic Boy Not Allowed To Bring Dog To School
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
The dog is trained to sense the onset of diabetic attacks, and the family says she should be treated just like a seeing-eye dog for the blind, ...

Oral insulin capsule was safe, effective
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
An oral insulin capsule for the treatment of type 2 diabetes lowered glucose levels and C peptide, according to the findings from a phase-2A trial. ...

Treatment for Diabetes Growing on Trees
MarketWatch - USA
TAMPA, FL, Aug 13, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- New research shows that a treatment for diabetes has been growing right in our backyard. ...

Omega-3s Improve Insulin Sensitivity
Food Product Design - Northbrook,IL,USA
... omega-3 fat improves insulin sensitivity and reduces inflammatory markers, but does not alter endocrine responsiveness in older adults (Horm Metab Res. ...

ACCEL: Nicotinic Acid: The New Old Wonder Drug
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
1 Moreover, all of the processes involved in atherogenesis can be exacerbated by insulin resistance and/or the metabolic syndrome (Slide 2). ...

Overweight Hispanic Children At Significant Risk For Pre-diabetes ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The persistence of pre-diabetes during growth is associated with progression in risk towards future diabetes, according to the study, which will be ...

Oramed: Oral Insulin Capsule Has Solid Safety Profile
FDA news (subscription) - Falls Church,VA,USA
Oramed Pharmaceuticals received positive results from its Phase IIa clinical trial studying its oral insulin capsule, ORMD 0801. The trial demonstrated that ...

Obese people can be healthy: study
AFP -
The obese individuals in the study were divided into two groups: those who were resistant to insulin and those who were not. Insulin resistance is a ...

Insulet Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
MarketWatch - USA
Dr. Cobelli reported that the system had demonstrated excellent overnight blood glucose control and no hypoglycemic events. -- At the 2008 Annual Meeting of ...

SF-1019 Receives Approval for Treatment, Marketing and ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Results from a recent study undertaken in Europe to evaluate the safety and efficacy of SF-1019 in the treatment of Diabetic Ulceration and its effect on ...

CytRx Corporation Announces Second Quarter Results
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
“In 2008, we have continued to advance our molecular chaperone amplification compounds, including iroxanadine for diabetic foot ulcers,” said Steven ...

Overweight Hispanic children at significant risk for pre-diabetes ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
A study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that overweight Hispanic children are at significant risk for pre-diabetes, ...

Cognitive Problems Associated With Diabetes Duration And Severity
Science Daily (press release) - USA
11, 2008) — Individuals with mild cognitive impairment appear more likely to have earlier onset, longer duration and greater severity of diabetes, ...

Losing Weight After Diabetes Diagnosis can Prevent Diabetes ...
IT News Online - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
12 /PRNewswire/ -- People who lose weight soon after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have better control of their blood pressure and blood sugar, ...

Study: If You Were Diagnosed with Diabetes, Lose Weight
eFluxMedia - USA
However, the blood pressure and blood sugar levels in their fourth year were better than the other groups. The researchers caution that they did not look at ...

Levels of C-reactive protein in the blood do not cause diabetes
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Previous research has suggested that raised levels of this marker are linked with an increased risk of diabetes but to date it has not been clear whether ...

Brean Murray Downgrades Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO) to Hold
StreetInsider.com (subscription) - Birmingham,MI,USA
Further, in the what we view as an increasingly more competitive diabetic market, we believe a potential insulin product will need to demonstrate ...

Biocon’s oral insulin alternative enters late-stage trials
Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
Bangalore: Biocon Ltd’s oral insulin, which aims to be a needleless alternative to the injection, has advanced to late-stage trials, having shown promising ...

Identification and Characterization of Metabolically Benign ...
Archives of Internal Medicine - USA
Background Obesity represents a risk factor for insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerosis. In addition, for any given amount of ...

Diabetes linked to accelerated atherosclerotic plaque progression
Medicexchange - London,UK
Patients with coronary artery disease and diabetes exhibit more extensive atherosclerosis and inadequate compensatory remodeling of the arterial wall, ...

Evaluation of the cost effectiveness of exenatide versus insulin ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Randomised-controlled trial data suggest that exenatide is as effective as insulin glargine at reducing HbA1c in combination therapy with metformin and ...

Computer Program Regulates Glycemic Control in Adventist Midwest ...
Nurse.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
By Rita Marie Barsella, RN, MSJ In June, four Illinois Adventist Midwest Health hospitals replaced a cumbersome paper IV insulin protocol with a smart ...

Diamyd Medical: DiamydŽ Prevents Insulin Treatment in LADA patients
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
This patient group normally requires insulin treatment within a few years after diagnosis. “This is the first time that it is shown in man, ...

Diabetes death toll is ‘truly alarming’
Bradford Telegraph Argus - Bradford,England,UK
By Claire Lomax ť New figures reveal that more than one in nine deaths among 20 to 79-year-olds in the region can be attributed to diabetes, health charity ...

Living With Diabetes: Illness is just a caution flag, not a stop sign
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
Nearly 21 million Americans have diabetes, according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. And 10 percent of those have Type 1, often referred to as ...

A 'wine' drug that fights diabetes, cancer
Times of India - India
A drug that fights aging and halts the onset of diabetes, cancer and heart disease, may hit market shelves in another five years, claim researchers. ...

Insulet Corp. Sets Date to Report Second Quarter 2008 Financial ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
PODD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Insulet Corp., a provider in patch pump technology with its OmniPod Insulin Management System, announced plans ...

Diabetes cited in death
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
( Brian Brainerd, The Denver Post ) A New York physician testified Friday that 7-year-old Chandler Grafner "absolutely" died of complications of diabetes ...

News for Week #32 2008

Telemedicine helps prevent blindness in diabetes patients
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
It occurs when high blood sugar levels make the walls of small blood vessels weaker and prone to damage. The damaged vessels leak blood and plasma into the ...

Studies Show Exercise Boon for Obesity, Diabetes
The Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
LONDON—Walking a bit more each day can help people control their type 2 diabetes, but obese people trying to keep weight off may need to exercise harder ...

Healing Tibetan qi
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
“About a week after learning qigong from Master Suo, my blood sugar level dropped drastically, I started showing hypoglycemic symptoms. ...

Man Suffered Diabetic Attack While Driving
WROC-TV - Rochester,NY,USA
A 52 year old man is recovering in the hospital after suffering a diabetic attack while driving on the road. Gordon Crosby was traveling east on Route 5 ...

Are You a Candidate for Obesity Surgery? Part 1
HealthCentral.com - Arlington,VA,USA
... a BMI greater than 35 with one or more obesity related co-morbidities such as diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, hypertension or the metabolic syndrome. ...

The Role of Microalbuminuria and Insulin Resistance As Significant ...
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
This preliminary study was therefore designed to test the hypothesis that the presence of WML correlates with microalbuminuria and insulin resistance in ...

Predictors of Uncontrolled Hyperlipidaemia in High-Risk Ambulatory ...
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Effects of ezetimibe added to on-going statin therapy on the lipid profile of hypercholesterolemic patients with diabetes mellitus or metabolic syndrome. ...

Genzyme and Isis Begin Second Phase 3 Trial of Mipomersen
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... our comprehensive development plan for mipomersen" stated John P. Butler, president of Genzyme’s renal, endocrine and cardiovascular business units. ...

Artificial pancreas developed, twice as cool as your boring real one
engadget - Santa Monica,CA,USA
It's based around existing technology for monitoring and moderating blood sugar levels, but "closes the loop," scratching out human error by feeding ...

Ramsey: Appears Officer Acted Properly During Traffic Stop Death
MyFox Philadelphia - Philadelphia,PA,USA
"We know now that the person probably was having some kind of diabetic-related episode, but at the time he was driving erratically," Philadelphia Police ...

Oramed reports encouraging results from Phase IIa diabetes trial
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
We look forward to our next Phase of testing and taking the next steps towards making an oral insulin capsule a reality for millions of diabetics around the ...

80 Million Americans Can Benefit from New Diabetes Resource
MarketWatch - USA
This website mirrors the highly successful American Diabetes Association (ADA) accredited teaching program curriculum created by UCSF clinicians and ...

New Stem Cells May Lead To Cure For Parkinson’s, Diabetes
dBTechno - Boston,MA,USA
These stem cells focus on 10 different diseases, including Parkinson’s, diabetes, and could lead to an eventual cure. All of these cells were taken from ...

Diabetes complications blamed for fiery crash
Globe and Mail - Canada
Edmonton -- A medical examiner's office has ruled that complications due to diabetes were behind a fiery semi crash on the Yellowhead Highway last March. ...

Eating Broccoli May Protect the Heart in Diabetes
News Locale - Gulbarga,Karnataka,India
Now researchers are indicating eating the vegetable may protect the blood vessels and the heart from damage in diabetes. Lead researcher Professor Paul ...

Tolerx Initiates Dosing for Phase III Diabetes Trial
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Tolerx has started a pivotal Phase III clinical trial that is evaluating otelixizumab in autoimmune new onset type 1 diabetes. Defend is a randomized, ...

Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower Vegetables may Protect against ...
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
[Best Syndication News] Researchers from the University of Warwick published a study in the journal Diabetes which concludes that a compound called ...

High vitamin C intake may cut diabetes risk
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An abundance of vitamin C in the diet may help lower a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. ...

Here's how to combat high blood sugar
Times of India - India
Herbs and spices may protect against the consequences of high blood sugar, according to a new study by University of Georgia. ...

Biodel's 3Q loss widens on higher costs
Forbes - NY,USA
The wider loss reflects higher costs as the company develops VIAject, a rapid-acting injectable insulin. VIAject is in late-stage development. ...

Gum Disease Signals Diabetes Risk
New York Times - United States
Now new research suggests gum disease may predict whether you develop diabetes. What’s lurking in your gums? (Ruby Washington/The New York Times) The ...

New Survey Explores the Impact of Insulin Injections and ...
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
According to the survey results, 33 percent of respondents have experienced some level of dread relating to insulin injections (eight percent strongly ...

Nature Publication Reports on Key Role of Bile Acids in Glucose ...
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
However, recent research advances provide evidence that bile acids have broader systemic endocrine functions, acting as important mediators of glucose ...

RCP: Diabetes care compromised by pressure on consultants
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
Specialist diabetes services are being compromised because consultants who specialise in diabetes are spending more time supporting acute-general internal ...

Elevated Levels of High-Molecular-Weight Adiponectin in Type 1 ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Background: Several studies have shown that type 1 diabetic patients have elevated total levels of the adipocyte-derived adipocytokine adiponectin. ...

Intravascular Kinetics of C-Reactive Protein and Their ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Conclusion: The PR of CRP appeared as the main determinant of CRP concentrations and showed significant associations with features of the metabolic syndrome ...

Associations of Adiponectin, Resistin, and Tumor Necrosis Factor ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Context: Adipose tissue-derived adipokines may contribute to insulin resistance. Objective: We tested the hypothesis that adipokines are associated with ...

Pathogens Isolated From Deep Soft Tissue and Bone in Patients With ...
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (subscription) - USA
It is widely believed that soft-tissue cultures are adequate in the determination of causative bacteria in patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis. ...

Study Links Tobacco Smoke With Belly Fat
Online - International News Network - Islamabad,Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Exposure to cigarette smoke raises the risk among teens of metabolic syndrome, a disorder associated with excess belly fat that increases the ...

Excessive and Binge Drinking May Increase Risk for Metabolic Syndrome
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Describe the association between different patterns of alcohol consumption and the metabolic syndrome. Describe the association between alcohol consumption ...

Iron overload can lead to diabetes, heart failure
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
Over time, the toxic effects of the excess iron can lead to damaging diseases like diabetes, congestive heart failure, and endocrine system problems. ...

DexCom Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
I initially hired Claudia in 1999 Park Davis to lead our marketing as insulin pumps were gaining traction in adoption and reimbursement. ...

AtheroGenics Gets Good News From Phase III Trial for Diabetes
FDA news (subscription) - Falls Church,VA,USA
AtheroGenics received positive data from its ANDES Phase III clinical trial of AGI-1067 for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. Results from the multinational ...

Society's big fat lie depresses diabetics
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
It is commonly diagnosed in those under 30, often in childhood, and means sufferers must inject themselves daily with insulin. But many people confuse the ...

Syntratech Corporation announces the completion of its first major ...
PR Urgent - USA
"This study establishes Diatroxal as the world's premier product for promoting healthy blood sugar levels” said corporate president, Kenneth Hampshire. ...

Rice Compound May Reduce Diabetic Damage
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
Germinated brown rice's ability to help diabetics lower their blood sugar has been shown but how it works remained unknown. New research, published online ...

SGLT2 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Diabetes
Medscape (subscription) - USA
These agents therefore have the potential to be useful add-on agents in patients taking oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin, with a low risk for hypoglycemia ...

Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Even as we refocus the company’s efforts in the RNAi space, we believe that our intranasal assets including PTH for Osteoporosis, insulin for diabetes, ...

VIVUS Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
We believe Qnexa is the first oral diabetic medication to significantly lower blood sugar, weight and cardiovascular risk. To discuss some of the specifics ...

Organogenesis, Inc. Announces Apligraf(R) Cell Therapy Reimbursed ...
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
Its signature product, Apligraf, is the first living cell therapy to have received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals to close diabetic foot ...

Metabolic syndrome linked with resistance to thrombolysis in ...
Medicexchange - London,UK
Patients with metabolic syndrome are more likely to experience resistance to thrombolysis in middle cerebral artery (MCA) ischemic stroke, according to a ...

Postal truck found in cornfield triggers search
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA
It turns out that Drosnock had suffered a diabetic episode due to low blood sugar but had come to and found his way across Dogwood Road to another ...

News for Week #31 2008

State to pay for obesity surgery
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Health Minister Reba Meagher is also expected to announce the establishment of one-stop clinics to tackle obesity-related conditions such as diabetes, ...

Diabetic Patients Lose Weight Without Even Trying
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
Diabetic patients testing a nutritional alternative to pharmaceutical drugs not only dramatically lowered their blood sugar levels but also lost a lot of ...

Ogenix to Showcase the EpiFLO for Treatment of Diabetic Foot and ...
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
COM) Ogenix, a medical technology company that develops and markets a breakthrough oxygen-generating device used in the treatment of diabetic foot and leg ...

Diabetics risk hearing loss
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
... high enough for a diabetes diagnosis, had a 30pc higher rate of hearing loss compared to those with normal blood sugar tested after overnight fasting."

Fruit Juices Found To Increase Diabetes Risk In Women
ChattahBox - Boston,MA,USA
Washington (ChattahBox) - A new study has revealed that women who drink fruit juices each day face an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. ...

Study Finds Insulin Resistance Causes Gallstones
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
Now, researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have determined that insulin resistance is likely the reason why. “This is a very exciting discovery not only ...

Testosterone Predominance Increases Prevalence of Metabolic ...
Metabolomics.net (press release) - Sudbury,UK
As testosterone progressively dominates the hormonal milieu during the menopausal transition, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome increases according to a ...

Drug corrects severe insulin imbalance in mice
TopNews - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
Consequently, insulin levels rage out of control and severely reduce blood glucose, a condition called hypoglycemia that may cause irreversible brain damage ...

Diabetic Patients Lose Weight Without Even Trying
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
... 2008 --(PR.com)-- Diabetic patients testing a nutritional alternative to pharmaceutical drugs not only dramatically lowered their blood sugar levels but ...

Couch Mouse to Mr. Mighty by Pills Alone
NYTIMES - usa
they "found two drugs that did wonders for the athletic endurance of couch potato mice ...

Spicy Diet May Help Diabetics
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
The "spice mice" study was presented at an annual Endocrine Society meeting and will appear in a future issue of the journal, Endocrinology. ...

UCB shares slide as FDA rejects lacosamide for DNP
Pharma Times (subscription) - London,UK
UCB has suffered a setback at the hands of US regulators who have issued a not approvable letter for lacosamide, its treatment for diabetic neuropathic pain ...

Protein Made By Fat Cells May Increase Risk Of Heart Attack In ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2008; DOI: 10.1210/jc.2008-0640 Adapted from materials provided by The Endocrine Society, via EurekAlert!, ...

Metabasis' Results From Its Phase 2a Clinical Trial For MB07803 ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
MB07803 is the Company's second-generation fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase) inhibitor for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. As reported in April, ...

Flavoprotein Autofluorescence Measurements Helpful in Diabetic ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Compare use of retinal flavoprotein autofluorescence in participants with diabetes vs those in the age-matched control group. ...

Macropinocytosis is decreased in diabetic mouse macrophages and is ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Diabetes is characterized by metabolic abnormalities and altered immune function. Here we examine the influence of diabetes on macropinocytosis in primary ...

Vitro Receives Approval for Preclinical Diabetes Study Protocol
MarketWatch - USA
dba Vitro Biopharma, announced approval of its preclinical diabetes study protocol. This approval allows the Company to test its stem cell-derived human ...

Is Oral Insulin Pill On Horizon?
New York Jewish Week - NY, USA
Dunetz, who lives in Long Island, is currently taking Glimperide, a drug that makes the body better able to use insulin produced internally. ...

DiaMedica to Deliver Poster Presentation at World Conference on ...
MarketWatch - USA
The presentation, entitled "Reversing Prediabetes Insulin Resistance by Synergy of Drugs Mimicking a Feeding Signal" highlights the preclinical data from ...

Study first to show range and severity of birth defects associated ...
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
Women who receive a diagnosis of diabetes before they become pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with one or even multiple birth ...

Combo of Diabetes Drugs May Protect Against Alzheimer’s 
MedPageToday - USA
CHICAGO -- Patients who took both insulin and other diabetes medications had fewer plaques associated with Alzheimer’s ...

Bariatric Surgery Found Superior to Drugs in Controlling Diabetes
Diabetes in Control - USA
For morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery led to more improvement in A1c ...

NIH Diabetes Study Halted
U.S. Medicine - Washington,DC,USA
BETHESDA, MD—One common strategy to help improve the health of patients with type 2 diabetes has been to lower their blood sugar level. ...

Diabetes drug drives firm’s success
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
The opportunity to get onto drugstore shelves came about as the marked increase in the number of people living with diabetes, which has led drugstores to ...

Inheritance Of Hormonal Disorder Marked By Excessive Insulin In ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Elevated levels of insulin could be an early sign that girls whose mothers suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome -- or PCOS ...

Laser Superior to Corticosteroids in Diabetic Macular Edema
DG News - USA
BETHESDA, Md -- July 28, 2008 -- A promising new drug therapy used to treat diabetic macular edema proved less effective than traditional laser treatments, ...

Diet Key to Diabetes Risk
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Obesity is one of the strongest risk factors for developing diabetes. By 2030, 11.2 percent of the adult population in the United States is expected to ...

The Zero-Calorie Sweetener Stevia Arrives
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
(Dietitians recommend keeping your glycemic load, a measure of how much particular foods raise blood sugar levels, below about 100 a day. ...

Statins cut risk of dementia by half, research finds
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Statins lowered the risk of dementia in all participants, but the statins had more of an impact on the group at high risk due to metabolic syndrome. ...

Low-Carb and Mediterranean Diets Beat Low-Fat for Weight Loss, Lipid Changes at 2 Years 
MedScape - USA
Is it time to think beyond low fat? ...

Health: Walking for 45 minutes helps to control diabetes
guardian.co.uk - UK
... of the condition simply by walking for an extra 45 minutes a day, according to scientists who found exercise helped to keep blood sugar levels in check. ...

Turmeric may help prevent type 2 diabetes
Food Consumer - Lisle,IL,USA
The researchers discovered that mice treated with turmeric had better blood glucose levels and better glucose and insulin tolerance. ...

JAMA -- Oral Hypoglycemic Use and the SANDS Trial--Reply, July 23 ...
JAMA - USA,
The Journal of the American Medical Association, is a highly cited weekly medical journal that publishes peer-reviewed original medical research ...

News for Week #30 2008

Diabetes ‘decreases male fertility’
Times Online - UK
The researchers concluded that high blood sugar levels meant men with the condition “have a significant decrease in their ability to repair sperm DNA, ...

New AACE Guidelines for Prediabetes Management
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Patients at highest risk (> 1 of impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose level, or metabolic syndrome) should be monitored more carefully. ...

Some Sweeteners Inhibit Enzyme Tied to Type 2 Diabetes
Forbes - NY,USA
The researchers also found that certain sweeteners inhibit the activity of alpha-glucosidase, an enzyme that moderates blood glucose levels by controlling ...

Genaera Releases Phase 1 Data and New Preclinical Data on the CNS ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
In this study, rats were administered a single dose of MSI-1436 one day prior to receiving insulin; 30 minutes post-insulin, hypothalami were harvested to ...

Antioxidants Improve Diabetes Complication
Medfinds - Seattle,WA,USA
Diabetes is characterized by higher than normal blood sugar (glucose) levels. Long-term elevations in blood sugar increase the body’s production of free ...

Chemical Causes of Diabetes: Overeating Is Not the Only Problem
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin receptor sites are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, ...

Inflammation profiles worse among women with diagnosed diabetes
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Women with diagnosed diabetes may have higher levels of ferritin, compared with those with a history of gestational diabetes. In a cross-sectional study, ...

The Pharma Industry
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
The study showed that VIAject(TM) was absorbed and produced its metabolic effect faster than both regular human insulin and insulin lispro (Humalog(R)) at ...

FDA urged to rethink its method of determining bioequivalence
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Results of a pharmacovigilance trial have the Endocrine Society concerned about the adverse health effects of switching L-T4 sources. ...

Blood Glucose Monitoring, Diabetes Management System Passes Tests
FDA news (subscription) - Falls Church,VA,USA
The GlucoTel system assists in the treatment and control of diabetes and associated disorders by electronically measuring blood sugar levels and sending ...

Metabolon and University of Texas Partner in Diabetes Research
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
The partnership will help drive development of Metabolon's pre-diabetes diagnostic products as well as provide valuable data for insulin resistance and ...

Diabetes drug maker Amylin posts wider second-quarter loss
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... meaning they don't have a high incidence of causing hypoglycemia or exacerbating cardiac risks, Amylin's Byetta is in a favorable position, ...

The Science of Seasons Behind Laminitis, PPID
TheHorse.com - Lexington,KY,USA
Compared to non-laminitic ponies, the researchers observed significantly higher insulin and triglyceride levels in the laminitic ponies. ...

Northerners may be prone to diabetes
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
Diabetes seems to afflict more northerners than those living near the equator, making some researchers think exposure to sunlight plays a role in the ...

HyperMed's New Technology Predicts Healing Potential Of Diabetic ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Today the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) announced that HyperMed's OxyVu™ imaging system may predict healing of diabetic ulcers. ...

Nearly Nine Out Of Ten Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Achieve QoF ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Furthermore, updated National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on the management of type 2 diabetes is recommending for the first time that ...

Gastric bypass as a cure for Diabetes
NECN - Newton,MA,USA
(NECN/ABC) - It may be the closest thing to a cure for type-2 diabetes -- gastric bypass surgery. Currently, the procedure is only performed for major ...

News for Week #29 2008

New ventures: GlycoMark seen as leader of diabetes diagnostics segment
TMCnet - USA
Toyota, Nippon, and the BioMarker Group (Kannapolis, North Carolina) have worked together as partners to commercialize the GlycoMark diabetes blood test ...

Israel's Teva buys US copycat drug rival for $7.5bn
guardian.co.uk - UK
The Israel-based company's purchase of Barr will put it further ahead of the pack as the world's biggest maker of generics - drugs for which developers' ...

Easing Pain And Numbness Associated With Diabetes
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 19, 2008) — To ease pain and numbness associated with diabetes, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell physician-scientists are studying a ...

Mom's diabetes tied to early diabetes in offspring
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies who are exposed to mom's diabetes and obesity while in the womb are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in ...

NCQA to omit lower blood sugar target from performance measures
TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA
... below 7% in its performance measures this year because of uncertainty over the results of recent clinical trials of aggressive blood sugar lowering. ...

Studies' analysis shows Lyrica relieves diabetic pain
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
An analysis of seven studies found that pregabalin, an epilepsy drug also known as Lyrica, proved safe and effective in easing diabetic neuropathy -- pain ...

Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog
Schaeffers Research - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... after the company announced that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) accepted the Custom Cloud model into its diabetic shoe program. ...

Top US Government Agency Validates Benefits of Croslite™ Material
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Recognized by the American Podiatric Medical Association with its distinguished Seal of Acceptance, the Custom Cloud offers diabetic patients several ...

Vinegar Nightcap
Stop Aging Now - Washington,DC,USA
A few spoonfuls of vinegar with a late-night snack can help balance blood sugar. By Staff Writer Try this bedtime tonic: two tablespoons of vinegar with a ...

Analysis of the current non-insulin antidiabetic pipeline ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Datamonitor expects incretin mimetics to emerge as a major new therapeutic class in non-insulin antidiabetics, driven by an explosion in the patient ...

New treatments envisioned for diabetes sufferers
Cordis News - Brussels,Belgium
New research results are offering renewed hope for sufferers of diabetes. EU-funded researchers have discovered that diabetics have a receptor on the ...

Sex Differences in the Brain: From Genes to Behavior
MarketWatch - USA
Significant advances in the technology available for studying the endocrine and nervous systems are now coupled with a more sophisticated awareness of the ...

Doctors Can Look Into Eyes To Detect Diabetes
TopNews - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
The doctors can simply look into eyes of a person using Snapshots to know if he/she will eventually get diabetes. Snapshots- a new device designed by ...

Police warning to diabetic drivers
Hartlepool Today - UK
POLICE chiefs are warning diabetic drivers of the potentially fatal consequences of getting behind the wheel without taking precautions. ...

Diabetic Hispanics Not Receiving Proper Eye Care
Medical News Today - UK
A new study published in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology finds that eye exam frequency among Hispanic patients with diabetes is smaller than the ...

Low-Carb Gets Results
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USA
Among the 36 patients with diabetes, changes in fasting plasma glucose and insulin levels were more favorable among those assigned to the Mediterranean diet ...

Trans Fat Diets Might Not Contribute to Insulin Sensitivity, say ...
Diabetes Health (press release) - Fairfax,CA,USA
Scientists are interested in resolving conflicting data about the contribution of trans fats to insulin resistance. Although trans fats are the new bad boys ...

Epilepsy drug eases diabetic neuropathy pain
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A review of previous studies indicates that the seizure drug pregabalin (Lyrica) is safe and effective for relieving diabetic ...

Long-Acting Insulins in Type 1 Diabetes Safer Than Traditional Agents
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
By John Gever, Staff Writer, MedPage Today HAIFA, Israel, July 17 -- For type 1 diabetes, long-acting insulins such as glargine (Lantus) reduce severe ...

New Therapies Revealed For Diabetes-induced Microvascular Disease
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 17, 2008) — New findings from Bristol scientists could lead to future treatments to prevent lower limb amputations in diabetes - which ...

Disease Prevention Programs Worth the Investment
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Their survey showed that effective prevention programs costing less than $10 per person could reduce rates of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure by 5 ...

BELLUS Health announces closing of Innodia acquisition
FOXBusiness - USA
... worked as Head of Biology for Biovitrum AB of Sweden, which specializes in metabolic diseases such as Type II diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. ...

Hollis-Eden initiates Phase II diabetes trial
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Richard Hollis, chairman and CEO of Hollis-Eden, said: "Since Triolex targets inflammation as an underlying cause of type-2 diabetes, the compound, ...

Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. and Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. Announce ...
MarketWatch - USA
"The GlycoMark(R) blood test is being increasingly utilized in clinical practice to manage patients with diabetes and in clinical drug studies," said John ...

Generex Biotechnology Sponsors Generex Oral-lyn Education ...
MarketWatch - USA
The symposium is being held to provide education and training for Middle Eastern endocrinologists on the treatment of diabetes mellitus using Generex ...

Bob Schieffer: Facing the Nation's Diabetes Crisis
MarketWatch - USA
Recently Schieffer's doctor suggested incorporating insulin into his diabetes management. After a long talk, Schieffer decided it was the right choice. ...

Obesity raises pancreatic cancer risk
Irish Health - Ireland
Research has also suggested that diabetes and abnormal insulin levels may play a role. The authors of this study believe that obesity could increase the ...

Aerobic Interval Training Versus Continuous Moderate Exercise as a ...
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
Methods: Thirty-two metabolic syndrome (defined by the World Health Organization criteria) patients were randomized to equal amounts of either moderate ...

Biodel completes two pivotal Phase III VIAject clinical trials ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
... of the secondary endpoints of dose, weight, and mild and moderate hypoglycemic events for the VIAject Phase III clinical trials. by RTT Staff Writer.

American Diabetes Association (ADA) Urges Congress to Examine ...
MarketWatch - USA
These disorders are precursors of diabetes and adult-onset cardiovascular disease." Kaufman went on to illustrate that one in three children born in the ...

Nucleostemin, serotonin and insulin signalling: Controlling ...
Science Centric - Sofia,Sofia Town,Bulgaria
Dr Scott and colleagues demonstrated that within the fly brain, serotonergic neurones are situated in close proximity to insulin-producing cells, ...

Becaplermin (Regranex) for Diabetic Foot Ulcers
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
By Jarvis, Courtney I Becaplermin (Regranex) topical gel is labeled for adjunctive treatment of stage III and IV diabetic neuropathic ulcers of the lower ...

Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Commences Phase II Clinical Trial with ...
Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USA
TRIOLEX may represent a novel, first-in-class insulin sensitizer that Hollis-Eden believes acts by modulating inflammatory pathways. ...

Diabetes Increases Risk of Active TB 
MedPage Today
BOSTON -- Diabetes together with a tuberculosis infection increases the risk of active TB by a factor of three, researchers here said.

Can Diet Alone Control Type 2 Diabetes? No Evidence Yet
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 15, 2008) — Despite strong evidence that type 2 diabetes can be prevented or at least delayed by a combination of lifestyle changes and ...

Heart surgery revolutionised
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
A coronary artery bypass grafting procedure is being performed on the cardiac surgery simulator. - Contributed Researchers at the University of the West ...

Spherix Expands Phase 3 Naturlose Diabetes Trial Outside of the US
MarketWatch - USA
, , ) reported that the Phase 3 clinical trial of its potential type 2 diabetes drug, Naturlose(R), will expand outside of the United States. ...

Experts seek more study of diabetes drugs
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA
During the last decade, there has been a big push to have diabetics maintain close to normal blood sugar levels. For type 1 diabetes, keeping blood sugar ...

'Chemical chaperone' may be breakthrough for diabetics
The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia
Australian scientists have discovered a chemical compound which acts as a ''saviour'' for dying insulin cells in Type2 diabetics, ...

Novo Nordisk files for liraglutide approval in Japan
Reuters - USA
CO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the world's biggest maker of insulin, said on Tuesday it filed for regulatory approval for its diabetes drug ...

Immigrant Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Have Poorer ...
Irish Medical Journal - Dublin,Ireland
A greater proportion of immigrants with T2DM were on insulin therapy for their diabetes. Irish patients had significantly higher fasting triglyceride ...

Gene Produces Hormones That Lead To Obesity
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Carriers of mutations of the PCSK1 gene also have a tendency to be hypoglycemic after meals due to insulin abnormalities linked to this mutation. ...

Weekly basal-bolus adjustments may reduce HbA1c levels in patients ...
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
The efficacy of a simple algorithm and an insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio to both deliver and adjust prandial insulin may increase physician and patient ...

Spherix Expands Phase 3 Naturlose Diabetes Trial Outside of the US
MarketWatch - USA
reported that the Phase 3 clinical trial of its potential type 2 diabetes drug, Naturlose(R), will expand outside of the United States. ...

Genaera Corporation Presents Data on Mechanism of Inhibition of ...
MarketWatch - USA
Cellular studies demonstrating that phosphatase inhibition by MSI-1436 in the presence of insulin pretreatment provided further support for the inhibition ...

Poor Blood Sugar Control After Heart Surgery Impacts Outcomes
Forbes - NY,USA
MONDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining proper blood sugar levels after heart surgery is essential, whether one is or isn't a diabetic, ...

Study: Fruits, veggies decrease risk of diabetes
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
Eating whole fruits and leafy green vegetables helped women modestly decrease their risk of Type 2 diabetes. Researchers at Tulane University also found ...

Potential To Prevent Loss Of Insulin In Type 2 Diabetes
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 14, 2008) — There are two completely different diseases known as diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune condition that often starts in ...

Lipid Mediators Target PMN-induced Inflammation and Tissue Injury ...
Medi News Direct - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Diabetes induces alterations in immune cell functions such as the upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines from monocytes or polymorphonuclear neutrophils ...

DiaMedica Meets Primary Endpoint from Phase II DM-83 Study in Type ...
MarketWatch - USA
The Phase II trial was conducted in the European Union and was designed to demonstrate DM-83's effect on postprandial glucose and/or insulin levels in 20 ...

Tissera Reports Initial Closing of Bridge Loan Agreement
MarketWatch - USA
Having reached a solid proof of concept for the therapeutic efficacy of its pancreatic transplantation technology in primate models of insulin-dependent ...

Anti-inflammatory drugs could fight obesity
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Cheap anti-inflammatory drugs could be used to fight diabetes and heart disease in obese patients. ...

Liver Protein Associated with Type 2 Diabetes in Older Adults
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The presence of a protein expressed by the liver which inhibits insulin action may identify individuals more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to ...

Vinegar for vitality: Downing a shot a day might keep the doctor away
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... lowered diabetics’ blood glucose spikes by 3 percent to 6 percent, but pharmaceutical hypoglycemic agents reduced spikes by 10 percent to 15 percent. ...

Blood pressure treatment may help keep mind clear
Boston Globe - United States
... chose patients 80 years or older with high blood pressure but without signs of dementia and started them on a blood pressure medication or a sugar pill. ...

News for Week #28 2008

Insulin suppresses receptors that cause cascade of inflammation
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
Researchers at the University at Buffalo -- the first to identify the anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective properties of insulin -- now have discovered ...

Diabetes Risk Directly Related to Glucose Level, Even Within ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Describe the risk for type 2 diabetes associated with different levels of fasting plasma glucose. Identify factors associated with a diagnosis of type 2 ...

News for Week #27 2008

FDA panel urges more testing, tougher standards for diabetes drugs
International Herald Tribune - France
AP WASHINGTON: Diabetes drugs should face tougher safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions but protect patients from unforeseen heart risks, ...

Predicting success of vessel grafts
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
A normal blood sugar is one less than 100 (5.6). The in-between numbers are prediabetes. People with prediabetes have to be watched more closely so they ...

Studies Look at Preventive Care Use Among Mexican Immigrants ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
"Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Associated Risk Factors in Asian Indians": The study looks at metabolic syndrome, lifestyle behaviors, and perception ...

Association of Insulin Resistance and Inflammation with Peripheral Arterial Disease...
ADA
Insulin resistance and inflammation predict peripheral arterial disease ...

Gender Specificity of Body Adiposity and Circulating Adiponectin ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Context: Fetal development is thought to be gender specific for adiposity and circulating insulin and IGF-I but not adipokinemia, as judged by serum ...

Boy, five, saves mum from coma
ITV.com - UK
Although she hadn't fallen into a diabetic coma for more than ten years, she had trained Jaden to use her blood glucose monitor. Chief Insp Jack Malhi said: ...

The Obesification of America
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
Eating junk food causes blood sugar levels to skyrocket. Excess blood sugar is toxic and therefore the body is forced to overproduce insulin in order to ...

Sudden Death More Common in Type 1's Under 40 Years...
Diabetes in Control
Hypoglycenia + beta-adrenergy <?=?>greater arrhythmic potential ...

Competitor Analysis: Obesity & Diabetes - Out Now
MarketWatch - USA
Product description The present Competitive Intelligence Report provides a competitor evaluation in the field of molecules used to treat diabetes as of ...

RNCOS Releases a New Report- Insulin Delivery Systems Market ...
PRMinds (press release) - Palaiseau,France
RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, "Insulin Delivery Systems Market Analysis (2007-2010)" to its report gallery. ...

Smoking Sends Atherosclerosis Rates in Eskimos Soaring 
MedPageToday - USA
NEW YORK -- High smoking rates among Alaskan Eskimos have wiped out the vascular benefits of their traditional fish-based diet heavy in omega-3 fatty acids ...

Company's stock up after tests of diabetes drug
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
RALEIGH - Early drug safety results for Dara BioSciences' experimental diabetes medicine boosted the stock of the small Raleigh drug development company ...

Don't worry, keep walking
USA Weekend - USA
Both present results from large studies designed to investigate whether aggressively lowering blood sugar improves health. On one hand, aggressive blood ...

Ridding Your Home of Pests May Be Jumping Out of the Frying Pan ...
Diabetes Health (press release) - Fairfax,CA,USA
The initial investigations showed that the expected association between obesity and diabetes/insulin resistance was absent in people who had low levels of ...

Metformin May Aid in Weight Loss for Obese Pre-Diabetic Teen Girls
Diabetes Health (press release) - Fairfax,CA,USA
Metformin, combined with dietary changes and exercise, seems to help obese pre-diabetic adolescents, especially girls, lose weight, says a report in the ...

Salicylates Increase Insulin Secretion in Healthy Obese Subjects
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Objective: The objective of the study was to investigate the effects of a salicylate derivative (triflusal) on insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion. ...

Hyperinsulinemia Induces Insulin Resistance on Glucose and Lipid ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Context: Adipocytes release a variety of factors which deregulation could provide the basis for complications such as insulin resistance, an early defect on ...

Absence of an Acute Insulin Response Predicts Onset of Type 2 ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Context: In persons with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), both impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance contribute to the conversion to type 2 ...

Serum Retinol Binding Protein 4 Is Related to Insulin Resistance ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Context: Retinol-binding protein (RBP) 4 is secreted by adipose tissue and is postulated to be a determinant of insulin sensitivity. ...

The Insulin-Sensitizing Effect of Rosiglitazone in Type 2 Diabetes ...
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Before and after treatment, insulin sensitivity was determined by a hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp. Muscular mitochondrial function (half-time of ...

The Star-Fish Story, Diabetes, and the Poorest Nation in the World
Diabetes Health (press release) - Fairfax,CA,USA
The more I learned about the extreme need suffered by people with diabetes in Malawi, Africa, and saw the abundance and waste that occurs in our own, ...

Overweight women more prone to breast cancer: Study
Hindu Business Line - Chennai,India
The study, involving around 60000 female subjects, found that women who are overweight, insulin-resistant or have high blood sugar levels are 50 per cent ...

Kronos Optimal Health Company Aims to Stop Diabetes Before It Starts
MarketWatch - USA
According to the National Diabetes Education Program, prediabetes means having blood sugar levels that are higher than normal, but not high enough to be ...

Metabolic Disease: Understanding How The Brain Can Influence The ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 10, 2008) — One of the characteristics of type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance, which refers to the inability of cells in the body to ...

Less Regular, High-Intensity Exercise May Be Best for Metabolic ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Compare the effects of moderate-intensity and high-intensity exercise programs on aerobic capacity in adults with metabolic syndrome. ...

Diabetes Linked To Male Infertility; Excess Sugars In The Body ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2008) — Barcelona, Spain: Diabetes in men has a direct effect on fertility, a scientist told the 24th annual conference of the ...

Insulin intervention to preserve beta-cell function is effective, safe
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Researchers from the University of Yamanashi and other sites in Japan conducted a multicenter, randomized study to examine if insulin therapy rather than ...

Generex initiates dosing in Phase III study of oral insulin drug
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The company believes that Generex Oral-lyn will offer a safe, simple, fast, effective, and pain-free alternative to prandial insulin injections, ...

Study Unveils Common Mechanism Underlying the Development of ...
Medi News Direct - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
This enzyme plays a critical role in altering normal glucose metabolism by cleaving the extracellular portion of insulin receptors, thereby preventing the ...

Pipeline Insight: Insulin antidiabetics - Return to injections ...
Pharmaceutical Business Review - USA
Big Pharma have all but exited the development of new insulin therapies leaving the field to small niche players. Comprehensive analysis of the current ...

New Drug Hoping To Heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Boston Channel.com - MA, USA
BOSTON -- A top Boston hospital is testing a new treatment for diabetic foot ulcers. It's a complication of diabetes that can lead to amputation. ...

Coccinia Indica Herb Lowers Blood Sugar Levels by 20 Percent in ...
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) Extracts of the Indian herb Coccinia indica reduced blood sugar levels by almost 20 percent in a study conducted by researchers from the ...

Analysis of heterogeneity and epistasis in physiological mixed ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Here the metabolic syndrome, which is known to be a heterogenous, polygenic condition with a clinical endpoint (type 2 diabetes mellitus), is modelled. ...

Telik Announces Publication of Diabetes Research in Bioorganic ...
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
The compounds developed activate the insulin receptor and may have the potential to be an orally administered treatment for diabetes. ...

Swallowing nutrition myths hook, line, and sinker
ScienceBlogs - USA
Cinnamon may help control blood sugar and cholesterol. Really? The few studies that have been done have been poor quality and have shown some limited effect ...

Stricter Rules for Diabetes Medications
InjuryBoard.com - Tampa,FL,USA
A panel of outside medical experts met last week to discuss the need for new diabetes medications to undergo more extensive testing to prove that they do ...

 

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