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.....

4th Quarter 2008
(all 12 weeks)

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News for Week #52 2008

Low-Carb Diets Do Not Have to be Stressful or Boring
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
A high protein, leucine-rich diet, combined with moderate carbohydrate restriction (~150 grams daily), was shown to support weight loss, blood sugar ...

High Insulin May Boost Odds of Breast Cancer - Cancer Information ...
Information on many different cancers includes symptoms, cancer detection and prevention, and treatment options...

Sleep May Be the Critical Factor for Weight Loss and Health
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
As a result of eating all those carbohydrates, insulin levels rose and so did the levels of the sex hormones which was a good thing because conceiving a ...

Are Elevated Triglycerides Independently Associated With Increased ...
Medscape - USA
Association between the -455T>C promoter polymorphism of the APOC3 gene and the metabolic syndrome in a multi-ethnic sample. BMC Med Genet. 2007;8:80.

The State of America's Health as Obama Takes Office
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Twenty-four million people have diabetes, the vast majority of it related to lifestyle, and an additional 57 million are prediabetic. ...

Pre-Meal Blood Glucose Values Best Gauge of True HbA1c
Diabetes in Control - USA
For patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, pre-prandial glucose levels are generally more closely associated with long-term HbA1c levels than post-prandial glucose levels ...

Mayo Clinic Highlights Cardiovascular Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Diabetes in Control - USA

Long-Term, Low-Dose Aspirin May Not Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in Women
Medscape - USA
"Although small clinical studies have shown a prominent hypoglycemic effect of short-term high-dose aspirin, no randomized trials have directly evaluated ...

Elevated Risk of Birth Defects Found in Women With Pre-Pregnancy ...
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) Type II diabetes is a very troublesome condition. Without a proper diet (avoiding non-fibrous carbohydrates, trans fats) and exercise routine, ...

Fish Oil Supplements Reduce Adiposity in Type 2 Diabetics
Diabetes in Control - USA

Gastric Bypass Can Reverse Diabetes in Very Obese Teens Long-term ...
Modern Medicine - Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA
Ten of the patients showed evidence of remission of diabetes after surgery and there were significant improvements in body mass index, fasting blood glucose ...

Statins Beneficial For Nearly All Diabetics
Diabetes in Control - USA

America Losing the Fight With Type 2 Diabetes
Forbes - NY,USA
The injectable medication not only controls blood sugar, but has been shown to help diabetics lose weight, he said. That's important, because studies have ...

News for Week #51 2008

Metabolic syndrome predicts kidney disease
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having the so-called metabolic syndrome may raise the risk of chronic kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes, ...

Strict Blood Sugar Lowering Won't Ease Diabetes Heart Risk ...
Health Day News - USA
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17 -- Intensive lowering of blood sugar in people with poorly controlled ...

Go Nuts with the Mediterranean Diet to Reduce Disease Risk
Medfinds - Seattle,WA,USA
Up to 25% of US adults have metabolic syndrome, so identifying ways to better manage this condition is vital. A large study of Spanish adults suggests the ...

Diabetic kids often have Vitamin D deficiency
UAE Daily News - Orleans,Ontario,Canada
NEW YORK - Children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes may have a particularly high rate of deficiency in bone-building vitamin D, a small study suggests. ...

Cardiac-Diabetes Self-management Program Developed to Help Patients
MedIndia - Chennai,India
A quarter of Type 2 diabetes patients admitted to hospital with a heart problem were readmitted within 28 days, compared to just six per cent of coronary ...

Childhood infection linked to diabetes
Siasat Daily - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
Washington, December 24: A new study shows that the human parechovirus contributes to the development of type 1 diabetes among genetically high risk ...

Genetic Variant Linked With Worse Clinical Outcomes in MI Patients ...
Medscape - USA
Regarding the possibility of genotyping patients with acute coronary syndrome to identify CYP2C19*2 carriers for risk stratification, Storey believes the ...

Shared and Distinct Genetic Variants in Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac ...
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription) - MA,USA
Methods We evaluated the association between type 1 diabetes and eight loci related to the risk of celiac disease by genotyping and statistical analyses of ...

New Indication For Fast-Acting Postprandial Hypoglicemic Agent ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
Nateglinide, an amino acid derivative, is an oral hypoglycemic agent that has insulin secretion enhancing effect with quick onset and short duration. ...

Blood sugar loss may trigger Alzheimer's: study
Reuters UK - UK
LONDON (Reuters) - A slow, chronic reduction of blood sugar to the brain could trigger some forms of Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said on Wednesday. ...

'No Weight Gain' modern insulin treatment for diabetes
Moneycontrol.com - Mumbai,India
Insulin treatment today is emerging as an important and major tool in management of type 2 diabetes, in addition to its obligatory use in type 1diabetes. ...

Takeda: US FDA to respond on diabetes drug by June
Reuters - USA
T), Japan's top drugmaker, said on Wednesday the US Food and Drug Administration would complete a review of a key diabetes drug candidate by June 26, 2009. ...

Psoriasis, Metabolic Syndrome Linked to High Leptin Levels
Diabetes in Control - USA
Although association does not necessarily signify causation, it is possible that the proinflammatory mediators ...

Eptifibatide and abciximab inhibit insulin-induced focal adhesion ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Alpha-v beta3 integrins influence responses to insulin in various cell types but effects in human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMC) are unknown. ...

Diabetes Drugs Must Now Clear Cardiovascular Hurdle, Says FDA
Medscape - USA
The Food and Drug Administration is now recommending that all new drugs developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes show that they do not increase the risk of cardiovascular events ...

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Among Older Adults: An Update on the Evidence
Medscape - USA
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among older adults with diabetes. To reduce the excessive risk of cardiovascular disease, all coronary risk factors must be treated aggressively. (Geriatrics Aging 11(9) 2008) ...

Alpha Lipoic Acid: The Multi-Tasking Supplement
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
In addition to being a powerful antioxidant, alpha lipoic acid helps the body use glucose; hence, it is useful in lowering blood sugar levels and in the ...

DiaMedica Announces Last Patient in for DM-99 Phase II Clinical Trial
Market Wire (press release) - USA
Change in insulin and/or blood glucose levels in time increments over a 4 hour period, post meal consumption, are the study's primary endpoints. ...

Generex Announces Governmental Approval of its Oral Insulin Spray ...
MarketWatch (press release) - USA
Generex Oral-lyn is designed to offer a simple, convenient, fast, effective, flexible, familiar and pain-free alternative to prandial injections of insulin. ...

Diabetes in African Americans: Optimizing Outcomes through Integrated Nutritional Strategies and Insulin Therapy
Medscape - USA
This activity was developed from the transcript and slides of a certified CME symposium ...

Living Cell, Centocor to collab on encapsulation tech
Small Times - USA
Insulin cell clusters (green) in capsules, about the size of sand grains in real life. (Source: LCT) LCT entered clinical trials for its diabetes product in ...

Diabetics Benefit from Eating Fish
Renal and Urology News - New York,NY,USA
Eating more fish may lower diabetic patients' risk of macroalbuminuria, new study findings suggest. The findings, which appear in the American Journal of ...

Walk briskly ... and carry a smaller stomach
Red Bluff Daily News - Red Bluff,CA,USA
For women, a measure of 35 inches and more is one indicator of "metabolic syndrome," with its increased risk of heart disease and diabetes. 3. ...

Leptin's long-distance call to the pancreas
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Rube Goldberg—the cartoonist who devised complex machines for simple tasks—would have smiled at one of leptin's mechanisms for curbing insulin release. ...

Preexisting diabetes increased risk for death among patients with ...
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Patients with diabetes at the time of cancer diagnosis had an increased risk for death compared with patients without diabetes, according to results of a ...

Thiamine Found Important for Diabetics
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Most people, even doctors, believe those complications can be avoided simply by keeping blood sugar tightly controlled with diet, oral medication or insulin ...

American Diabetes Association Leaves West Virginia
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
(AP) - The American Diabetes Association is closing its only field office in West Virginia - which has the higher percentage of people with diabetes in the ...

News for Week #50 2008

VADT: Intensive Glucose Control Fails to Reduce Cardiovascular Events
Medscape - USA
ACCORD, on the other hand, was stopped early because of an increased risk of death in patients who underwent intensive blood glucose lowering. ...

Exercise Protects Black Women From Type 2 Diabetes
Washington Post - United States
19 (HealthDay News) -- Less TV and more exercise may help reduce incidence of type 2 diabetes, especially among black women, a new report shows. ...

Seizing Driver Crashes into Home
MyFox Dallas - Dallas,TX,USA
A driver suffering a diabetic seizure careened off a road and crashed into a Denton County home on Thursday night. The Chevrolet truck crashed into the ...

Multivessel Coronary Revascularization in Patients With and ...
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
Methods: The ARTS-II trial was a single-arm study (n = 607) that included 159 diabetic patients treated with SES whose 3-year clinical outcome was compared ...

Psoriasis Associated with Higher Risk of Hyperleptinemia ...
Drug Topics Magazine - Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA
17 (HealthDay News) -- Psoriasis has been linked to hyperleptinemia, which in turn is associated with a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, ...

Study suggests a low-glycemic diet may help diabetes patients improve blood-sugar control.
The Endocrine Society - USA
"Eating a low-glycemic diet can help people with diabetes improve blood-sugar control" ...

Occurrence Of Major Eye Disease Projected To Increase Among ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
18, 2008) — Based on projected increases in the prevalence of diabetes, the number of people with diabetes-related retinal disease, with glaucoma and with ...

Intensive Glycemic Control Fails to Prevent Most Microvascular ...
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
Explain that, according to the authors, some patients may benefit from intensive glycemic control earlier in the disease course if hypoglycemia and other ...

Glucose Control and Vascular Complications in Veterans with Type 2 ...
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription) - MA,USA
Methods We randomly assigned 1791 military veterans (mean age, 60.4 years) who had a suboptimal response to therapy for type 2 diabetes to receive either ...

Thiamine Reverses Early Diabetic Kidney Disease in 35% of Type 2 Patients
Diabetes in Control - USA
Researchers have discovered high doses of thiamine - vitamin B1 - can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease ...

Driver pleads guilty in traffic deaths of family of four
Tahoe Daily Tribune - South Lake Tahoe,CA,USA
As a result, she drove while her level of consciousness was altered by low blood sugar, causing her to lose control of her vehicle. ...

Jackson Heart Study reaches key deadline
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Taylor said African Americans' high levels of "metabolic syndrome" contributes to higher levels of diabetes, which in turn can contribute to heart disease. ...

Plans For Exenatide Once Weekly NDA Submission by End of First
Pharmaceutical Online (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
This approximately 450 patient, open-label, superiority study compares exenatide once weekly with insulin glargine on a background of oral agent therapy. ...

Hundreds Dead" in Failed Diabetes Drug Trial
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
One of the treatments in the study involved using combinations of FDA-approved diabetes drugs to aggressively lower participants' blood sugar to levels as ...

Amylin advances further on hopes for diabetes drug
Forbes - NY,USA
... their ascent Friday, a day after the drugmaker confirmed it plans to seek regulatory approval for its weekly diabetes drug in the first half of 2009. ...

Acne Solutions - 5 Alternative Acne Solutions
Meadow Free Press - Meadow,ID,USA
Try to limit your carbohydrate as well as sugar intake so as not to increase your insulin content. Taking a multivitamin capsule or tablet regularly is ...

NYU Langone Medical Center - Medical Breakthroughs of 2008
HealthNewsDigest.com - New York,NY,USA
DIABETES: A 2008 study showed that aspirin use in broader diabetic population without cardiovascular disease may cause harm to patients – but Dr. Michael ...

Fast heartbeat predicts diabetes
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
High resting heart rates in early adulthood have been found to be a predictor of obesity and diabetes in later life, a new study shows. ...

Whose life is it anyway? Workers pay price for unhealthy ways
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Let's just … read more say he's a non-caucasian who is very prone to diabetes and other diseases common to his non-caucasian ancestry. ...

Gastric Bypass Success Sparks Debate
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
"I am being asked to operate on 78-year-olds with co-morbidities of heart disease and diabetes," said Dr. Edward H. Phillips, executive vice chairman of the ...

Biggest NSW trial ever launched to prevent type 2 diabetes
Cowra Community News - Cowra,Australia
NSW Minister for Health, John Della Bosca, has announced a new $5 million trial to address the growing problem of type 2 diabetes among the NSW adult ...

Dropping Pounds For Your Diabetes
PWO - France
The American Diabetes Association doesn't think so. In fact, according to the Association, losing just 10 or 15 pounds can go a long way in lowering blood ...

Experimental Weight-Loss Pill Passes Early Test
Washington Post - United States
Excess weight can lead to a variety of health problems, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, arthritis and type 2 diabetes. "Obesity is an epidemic," ...

News for Week #49 2008

Study links diabetes and coeliac
BBC News - UK
Type 1 diabetes and the food intolerance disorder coeliac disease appear to share a common genetic origin, UK research suggests. ...

Cerep in diabetes licensing deal with Sanofi
Reuters - USA
PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), for a jointly discovered diabetes treatment, triggering an undisclosed milestone payment. ...

Nuts boost health benefit of Mediterranean diet
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
A daily serving of mixed nuts helped a group of older people manage their metabolic syndrome, a group of related disorders such as obesity, high cholesterol ...

Cellular Stress Causes Fatty Liver Disease in Mice
Scientific Frontline - Oklahoma,OK,USA
Although fatty liver itself does not necessarily cause illness, it is associated with serious conditions like diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cirrhosis of the ...

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and the metabolic ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged men and women in Gothenburg, Sweden Random samples of 50-year-old men ...

Lack of sleep has genetic link with type 2 diabetes
Science News - USA
Insulin is shown in red. A receptor on these cells is a link that begins a connection between sleep and type 2 diabetes.Nils Wierup Sleep is a mystery. ...

deCODE to Integrate New Genetic Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes ...
MarketWatch - USA
If losing weight, eating better and getting adequate exercise aren't enough, there are also medications that can help to manage blood sugar levels and ...

AstraZeneca extends diabetes drug (dapagliflozin) plans to Japan
Forbes - USA
AstraZeneca PLC and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.said Monday they plan to extend their international deal to co-develop - and ultimately sell - a new diabetes drug to include Japan ...

FDA Byetta review likely to extend into 2009
Forbes - NY,USA
Byetta currently is approved for use in combination with other diabetes medications to help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar. ...

European Life Sciences Enterprise Accolade For Ulster Trio
University of Ulster Online - Coleraine,UK
... Diabetes Research Group into novel therapeutics, diagnostics and other innovative technologies for diabetes, obesity and the metabolic syndrome. ...

Cocoa consumption for 2 wk enhances insulin-mediated ...
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription) - Davis,CA,USA
Background: Essential hypertension is characterized by reciprocal relations between endothelial dysfunction and insulin resistance. ...

Diabetic children from deprived areas control disease less, says study
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The study, published in the journal Diabetic Medicine, found that, on average, blood glucose levels in children with diabetes from the most deprived areas ...

New genes present drug targets for managing cholesterol and ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Notably, several of the newly implicated genetic variants were also related to the risk of gallstones and certain rare forms of diabetes. ...

News for Week #48 2008

Paramedic died of arrhythmia, autopsy finds
Explore Baltimore County - Baltimore,MD,USA
He was a diabetic and wore an insulin pump, but that condition did not appear to play a part in his death, Fowler said. The forensic team examined the ...

Natural remedies for diabetes
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
Diabetes is a nutritional disorder in which the body is unable to produce enough insulin to burn the sugars and starches consumed. When insulin is reduced, ...

Newton Photonics wins grant to develop OCT-based glucose meter
BioOptics World - Tulsa,OK,USA
(Bethlehem, PA), is developing a similar blood sugar meter, the article says that Newton Photonics' technology enables prolonged monitoring and eliminates ...

Two insurance companies to cover DexCom monitors
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
The information helps diabetics try to avoid extreme highs and lows in their blood sugar, which cause organ damage. Disposable sensors that must be changed ...

Type 1 diabetes: Islet renovation
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
Notably, -cell mass increased from 10% in non-diabetic control mice to 45%, which the authors suggest is due to repair of damaged islets, in conjunction ...

A Bone Structural Basis for Fracture Risk in Diabetes
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - Chevy Chase,MD,USA
Context: Elevated areal bone mineral density (aBMD) in type 2 diabetes mellitus is inconsistent with increased fracture risk at some skeletal sites. ...

Top FDA Official Says Avandia Should Remain Available
Wall Street Journal - USA
By ALICIA MUNDY GlaxoSmithKline PLC's diabetes drug Avandia should remain available to patients despite some medical associations' calls for doctors not to ...

Mediterranean Diet Good for Those with Type II Diabetes
13WHAM-TV - Rochester,NY,USA
A new study shows that patients with Type II diabetes could have some more options in their diets. “A Mediterranean diet is one that emphasizes ...

Novo confident on profits and liraglutide
guardian.co.uk - UK
The launch of the injectable diabetes treatment would be "costly" and the drug would not contribute significantly to growth immediately, but Sorensen said ...

Diabetes drug found in health supplement container
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Diabetic medication has been discovered in a container of a health supplement purchased at a Toronto wholesale warehouse. Toronto police issued a public ...

Green Tea Benefits Type 1 Diabetes and Sjogren’s Syndrome
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Type 1 diabetes also goes by the names "childhood-onset diabetes" or "insulin-dependent diabetes". It occurs when the pancreas is unable to produce the ...

Secreted protein sends signal that fat is on the way
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
For instance, they would like to know whether mice that lack adropin become obese and show evidence of the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of diseases ...

GENFIT Therapeutic Potential of GFT505 is Demonstrated in the ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
The pre-diabetic and diabetic patients suffer from overlapping disorders (high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, inflammation. ...

Learn about the Protein Therapeutics Markets (Antithrobins ...
MarketWatch - USA
NEW YORK, Dec 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry industry is ...

Ginseng Found Highly Effective for Weight Loss and Diabetes Control
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
American ginseng acts in the digestive tract to increase insulin secretion. The Journal of Ethnopharmacology reports a study acknowledging ginseng's long ...

Risk Factors Identified for Recurrent Cardiac Events in Type 2 ...
Medscape - USA
"Approximately 6% of unselected diabetic patients in secondary prevention develop recurrent major CVD every year," the study authors write. ...

Lexicon Files Investigational New Drug Application for LX4211 as a ...
MarketWatch - USA
Diabetes mellitus is a common metabolic disorder associated with abnormally high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is classified as either type 1, ...

Controlling obesity key to reducing diabetes worldwide
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
Researchers say unless obesity is brought under control, the number of people who develop diabetes worldwide will far exceed projections. ...

The New York Times Editorial Board Seeking to Practice Medicine?
The New York Times - NYC USA
A large new study seems to suggest that millions of people with low cholesterol could benefit from taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs ...

Sleep Duration Linked to Diabetes
Oneindia - Tamilnadu,India
Not getting enough sleep or getting too much of it can be a bad thing, for researchers at the Columbia University in New York have found a link between both ...

DexCom(TM) Receives CE Mark Approval for the SEVEN(R) Continuous ...
MarketWatch - USA
The SEVEN is DexCom's second generation device designed to help people with diabetes better manage their diabetes and control their glucose levels. ...

Obesity Linked To Rise In Diabetes
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
The commonness of diabetes globally will surpass even the drastic rise at present expected unless growing movements of obesity are addressed, health experts ...

Genes and Diabetes Increase Heart Problems
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Type 2 diabetes is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It increases a person’s risk of having a major cardiac event in ...

News for Week #46 2008

Local med student wages war on diabetes
Signal - Santa Clarita,CA,USA
Brestoff's synthetic, patent-pending compound may cure both obesity and type 2 diabetes once proper research and documentation is complete, according to ...

Pure insulin-producing cells effectively treat diabetic mice
Entertainment and Showbiz! - Baroda,India
A team of scientists in Singapore has developed an unlimited number of pure insulin-producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). ...

Master Gene Plays Key Role In Blood Sugar Levels
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The severity of the hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was unexpected, said Dr. Bert W. O'Malley, chair of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of ...

Gastric bypass surgery studied for diabetes cure
CTV.ca - Canada
Doctors in Canada are taking part in a study to see if a surgery used to treat severe obesity may also help people with Type 2 diabetes. ...

Study: Diabetes Drug Avandia Riskier Than Actos
eFluxMedia - USA
Both drugs are used to lower blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes. In November 2007, Avandia received a black box warning due to increased risk of ...

Missing Week's Work for Mental Health May Predict Premature Mortality
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
There was a strong association with mortality among women who were absent because of a diagnosis of neoplasm or endocrine disease and mental disorders. ...

Cancer Drugs May Treat Type 1 Diabetes
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
18 (HealthDay News) -- Gleevec, a wonder drug that effectively treats leukemia and other cancers, may also reverse type 1 diabetes, University of California ...

News for Week #45 2008

TCM: type 2 diabetes
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Hong Kong
Practically, TCM is unlikely to provide as tight a control on blood sugar levels as western medicine, but it's a useful complement to western treatment in ...

Insulin pump co NiliMedix gets Health Ministry nod
Globes - Rishon Le-Zion,Israel
D Medical Industries Ltd. (TASE:DMDC) portfolio company NiliMedix Ltd. has obtained Ministry of Health approval for the company's insulin pump and infusion ...

UAE has highest number of diabetes sufferers in GCC
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
Dr Amel B. El Tayeb, MD, FRCP, consultant endocrinologist and director of The Diabetes & Endocrine Center at Dubai Healthcare City, said: 'The UAE has one ...

Cops: Diabetic driver causes chain reaction of crashes
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY MATTHEW CHAYES | matthew.chayes@newsday.com A diabetic driver "on the verge of passing out" from low blood sugar rear-ended a car yesterday, triggering a ...

News for Week #44 2008

Liver cancer patients have high diabetes prevalence
Reuters - USA
Men with DM and HCC were more likely to be treated with insulin than male diabetics in the control group (38 percent vs 18 percent, p = 0.009), ...

Insulet Corporation Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
MarketWatch - USA
Through its revolutionary OmniPod Insulin Management System, Insulet seeks to expand the use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) therapy ...

AHA 2008: JUPITER Casts a Large Shadow: Moving From Efficacy Data to the Big Picture
Heartwire
JUPITER is a large, multinational, long-term, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial that included 17 802 healthy men and women with normal LDL cholesterol but elevated CRP (>2.0 mg/L) assigned to rosuvastatin 20 mg or placebo ...

Autumn is for 'metabolic syndrome'
The Japan Times - Japan
By AMY CHAVEZ In the face of the increasing problem of "metabolic syndrome," in Japan, they really ought to revise the phrase shokuyoku no aki (Autumn is ...

Pauline's four-legged lifesaver
Austin Herald - Austin,MN,USA
The dog will also go to the kitchen to retrieve a bottle of Mountain Dew to help Iverson lift her blood sugar level. At Thursday’s Austin Noon Lions Club ...

Photo Release -- Generex Launches Oral Insulin for Diabetes ...
MarketWatch - USA
"Early intervention with insulin therapy could delay the onset and progression of diabetes and its numerous complications. Generex Oral-lyn(tm), ...

Type 2 diabetes big concern
London Free Press - Canada
The big development occurred in 1921 when Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin, the hormone used by the body to control levels of glucose ...

Clouded vision could be pointer to diabetes
Hindu - Chennai,India
It could be an indication of diabetes and could even lead to loss of vision if left untreated, say doctors. Diabetic retinopathy is a serious condition of ...

News for Week #43 2008

Ore. panel seeks effort against obesity, diabetes
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
(AP) — State officials are calling on Oregonians to eat better and exercise more, in hopes of curbing a rise in obesity-related diabetes that threatens the ...

Merck reaffirms commitment to Cardiovascular research - quick facts
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
... discovering and developing novel treatments for cardiovascular disorders, including atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart failure and metabolic syndrome. ...

Good genes behaving badly behind type-1 diabetes
Newspost Online - Baroda,India
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that scientists looking for genetic variants responsible for triggering early-onset diabetes, ...

Green tea compound may prevent type 1 diabetes: study
Tehran Times - Iran
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A compound found in green tea could slow or even prevent the development of type 1 diabetes, new research in mice suggests. ...

Alzheimer's: High BP, diabetes may cause early death
Merinews - New Delhi,India
... Center at Columbia University Medical Center stated that two factors - high BP and diabetes - can bring an early end to the Alzheimer patients. ...

Cyprus has one of highest diabetes rates in the world
Cyprus Mail - Nicosia,Cyprus
Vildagliptin has also shown to help bring blood sugar levels under control without the side effects commonly associated with many widely used type 2 ...

Research Reveals How Insulin Targets a Motor Protein to Accelerate ...
Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USA
A scientist at Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research discovered how insulin activates a motor protein known as myosin IC (Myo1c), which in turn aids ...

New Horizons In Type 2 Diabetes Research
NPR - USA
The artificial resveratrol decreased blood sugar levels and restored insulin levels to normal in diabetic mice. C. Ronald Kahn, professor at the Harvard ...

Metabolic Syndrome Affect Less Than Quarter of US Workforce
Natural Products Industry Insider - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The combination of health risks known as metabolic syndrome affects slightly less than a quarter of the US workforce and is linked to increased absenteeism ...

Beneficial effects of insulin in new onset type 2 diabetes with ...
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Insulin therapy in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes may have benefits beyond improved glycemic control. Several studies have suggested that ...

News for Week #42 2008

Artificial Pancreas Could Revolutionize Treatment Of Type 1 Diabetes
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... entirely maintained the patients' blood glucose levels, and the algorithm achieved excellent overnight control without any incidence of hypoglycemia. ...

Link between diabetes and TB found
Times of India - India
WASHINGTON: Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus say that patients with Type 2 diabetes may be at ...

Forest adds diabetes drug in Phenomix deal
Reuters - USA
N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Thursday that it had reached a deal with Phenomix Corp to develop and sell an experimental diabetes drug, ...

Diabetic taxi driver crashes into a wall
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Three vehicles parked at a block of flats in Durban were damaged after a taxi cab crashed after the driver evidently had a diabetic attack and hit a brick ...

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Launches Phase 1A Trials of its Insulin ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
JERUSALEM, October 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - An Insulin Suppository Represents an Important Development in the Treatment of Diabetes as it Provides a ...

Understanding why Obesity Control has Failed: New Approach, New ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Unfortunately, obesity is associated with abdominal fat deposition which tends also to be associated with insulin resistance. Insulin resistance also seems ...

News for Week #41 2008

Sugar fighter: Kalamazoo company Metabolic Solutions on the verge ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
It could thus help prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes by treating a condition known as metabolic syndrome. That condition is characterized by low HDL ...

Potential Treatment To Prevent Diabetes And Obesity Using ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2008) — A molecule called interleukin-6 has opened new doors for the creation of new drugs against obesity and diabetes. ...

Spices, Herbs Boost Health for Diabetics
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Researchers bought 24 herbs and spices and found that many appear to have the power to inhibit tissue damage and inflammation brought on by high blood-sugar ...

Boehringer Says Three Oral Diabetes Drugs Are Being Studied
Bloomberg - USA
Boehringer is running the last of three stages of tests required for regulatory approval on a DPP-4 inhibitor shown to lower blood sugar without causing ...

Diabetes aspirin use questioned
BBC News - UK
Aspirin should not routinely be used to prevent heart attacks in people with diabetes, Scottish research suggests. The British Medical Journal reported that ...

Vitamin D deficiency may affect diabetes risk
Food Consumer - Lisle,IL,USA
The study showed that children with type 1 diabetes were more likely to have deficiency of vitamin D than healthy children, 91 percent in diabetic children ...

Glutamic acid decarboxylase may help to preserve residual insulin ...
Endocrine Today - Thorofare,NJ,USA
Treatment with alum-formulated glutamic acid decarboxylase contributed to the preservation of residual insulin secretion in patients with recent-onset type ...

News for Week #40 2008

Genaera Corp says second Phase 1 trial results of trodusquemine to ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
A Phase 1b multiple ascending dose study in obese type 2 diabetics is scheduled to be initiated in the fourth-quarter of 2008 in which one of three doses of ...

Metabolic syndrome ups colorectal cancer risk
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Metabolic syndrome was defined as having a combination of three common chronic medical conditions: hypertension, diabetes and elevated cholesterol. ...

Excess Weight, Insulin Drive Up Prostate Cancer Mortality
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
And the combination of overweight and elevated C-peptide levels (a surrogate for insulin secretion) increased the risk of death four-fold, Jing Ma, Ph.D., ...

Sleuths go door to door to sniff out Medicare fraud
USA Today - USA
Today they are focusing on home health agencies that send nurses to give homebound diabetics insulin injections. Some patients are neither homebound nor ...