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  • Cheap New Paper-Based Diagnostic Test For Diabetes

    With epidemics of Type 2 diabetes looming in rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care, scientists are reporting development of an inexpensive and easy-to-use urine test ideally suited for such areas...

  • Molecule That Prevents Heart Damage is Also Proving Its Worth In Diabetic Patients

    ACE2, a molecule that has been shown to prevent damage in the heart, is now proving to be protective of the major organs that are often damaged in diabetic patients. Gavin Oudit, a researcher with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and his colleagues at the University of Florida, found that lab models that lacked ACE2 had worse cardiovascular complications related to diabetes...

  • Food Cravings Reduced By Lizard Saliva

    A drug made from the saliva of the Gila monster lizard is effective in reducing the craving for food. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, have tested the drug on rats, who after treatment ceased their cravings for both food and chocolate...

  • An Estimated 53 Million Americans May Have Diabetes By 2025

    The Diabetes 2025 Model for the U.S. projects a continuous and dramatic increase in the diabetes epidemic and makes it possible to estimate the potential effects of society-wide changes in lifestyle and healthcare delivery systems...

  • Unexpected Source Of Diabetic Neuropathy Pain Discovered

    Nearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now Yale researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target to alleviate it...

  • New Inflammation Hormone Link May Pave Way To Study New Drugs For Type 2 Diabetes

    A new link between obesity and type 2 diabetes found in mice could open the door to exploring new potential drug treatments for diabetes, University of Michigan Health System research has found. Drugs for type 2 diabetes commonly target insulin, which lowers blood glucose levels...

  • News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: May/June 2012

    Reinvigorating the 1967 Folsom Report's 'Communities of Solution' to Address Today's Fragmented U.S. Health Care System In the wake of federal efforts to reform the U.S. health care system, a group of rising family medicine leaders call for a reinvigoration of community-centered health systems, as originally outlined in the landmark 1967 Folsom Report...

  • Diabetics Had Decreased Blood Sugar And Improved Blood Lipids On High-Fat Diet

    People with Type 2 diabetes are usually advised to keep a low-fat diet. Now, a study at Linkoping University shows that food with a lot of fat and few carbohydrates could have a better effect on blood sugar levels and blood lipids...

  • Waist To Height Ratio Better Than BMI

    Waist to height ratio is a better predictor of heart disease and diabetes risk than BMI, according to new research presented at a scientific meeting recently. Study leader Dr Margaret Ashwell, an independent consultant and former science director of the British Nutrition Foundation, presented the findings at the 19th Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France, on Saturday 12 May...

  • What Is Diabetic Neuropathy?

    Diabetic neuropathy is damage that affects the peripheral nerves of the body. The damage is specifically to the nerves of the ganglia, outside of the skull, the spinal cord, and some other nerves that aid the body in assisting fundamental organs, such as the heart, bladder, intestines, and stomach. Diabetic neuropathy refers only to individuals who have diabetes...

  • Targeted Strategy To Prevent Obesity Could Avert Hundreds Of Thousands Of Diabetes Cases

    A study presented by Australian researchers at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France, demonstrates that 220,000 cases of type 2 diabetes could be averted by 2025 in Australia by using a targeted high-risk prevention strategy...

  • Diagnosing And Treating Diabetes In Asian Patients - Unique Physiology Is Key

    According to a new study, Asian Americans have an almost 50% higher risk than other Americans to develop diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes. George L. King, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), explained: "The medical profession needs to be aware of and address the unique characteristics of this population...

  • 'Diabetes Insulin Guidance System' Automatically Updates Weekly Insulin Dosage For Better Glycemic Control, Fewer Hypoglycemic Events

    Newly published results from a clinical study of the Diabetes Insulin Guidance System (DIGS™), under development by Hygieia, Inc., demonstrate DIGS' potential to improve blood glucose control for insulin-using patients with type 2 or type 1 diabetes. DIGS automatically adjusted insulin dosage based on each individual's reported blood glucose results...

  • An Asian's Unique Physiology Is Key To Diagnosing And Treating Diabetes

    As the diabetes epidemic spreads worldwide, there is growing concern for Asian American populations, who are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes. Compounding the problem, many of the standard ways to detect diabetes fail in people of Asian descent...

  • Metformin For Diabetes May Treat Uveitis, A Leading Cause Of Blindness

    University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a drug already prescribed to millions of people with diabetes could also have another important use: treating one of the world's leading causes of blindness...

  • Study Proposals Could Reduce Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Costs By Around 25 Percent

    Research carried out at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, has concluded that it would be a safe and cost-effective strategy to screen people with type 2 diabetes who have not yet developed diabetic retinopathy, for the disease once every two years instead of annually...

  • Men With Low Testosterone Levels May Be At Increased Risk For Diabetes

    Low levels of testosterone in men could increase their risk of developing diabetes, a study suggests. Scientists have found that low testosterone levels are linked to a resistance to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels. The study is the first to directly show how low testosterone levels in fat tissue can be instrumental in the onset of Type 2 diabetes...

  • Good News And Bad News In Fatty Liver Disease And Diabetes

    A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Nature Medicine that mice in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) was deleted had massively fatty livers, but lower blood sugar, and were thus protected from glucose intol...

  • Preventing The Passing Of Mitochondrial Mutations From Mother To Child

    Research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University helps answer some long-standing questions about how certain disease-causing gene mutations are inherited. The research specifically focused on gene mutations in cell mitochondria that can cause several diseases, including forms of cancer, diabetes, infertility and neurodegenerative diseases...

  • Possible Protective Blood Factors Against Type 2 Diabetes Identified By Study

    Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in collaboration with Nurses' Health Study investigators have shown that levels of certain related proteins found in blood are associated with a greatly reduced risk for developing type 2 diabetes up to a decade or more later...

  • Lyrica (pregabalin) No Good For Diabetes Or HIV Associated Neuropathic Pain

    Lyrica (pregabalin) failed in two separate human trials to reduce neuropathic pain linked to diabetes or HIV, said makers Pfizer today. One of the trials - Phase III HIV neuropathy - was stopped early because no benefits were found in an interim analysis on 246 patients out of a planned 416...

  • EndoBarrier Re-Implantation Feasible

    According to an announcement made by GI Dynamics Inc., new data results demonstrate that the EndoBarrier®, a new device for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, is feasible and can be re-implanted safely. EndoBarrier is a pioneering device for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity...

  • Older Adults With Diabetes Live Long Enough To Benefit From Interventions And Research

    Middle-aged and older adults with diabetes showed substantial survival rates in a new University of Michigan Health System study of retirees. Survival rates were strong even for adults living in nursing homes or who have multiple health issues like dementia and disabilities that make self-managed care for diabetes difficult...

  • Cellular Energy May Be Depleted In Patients With Obesity And Diabetes By Increased Fructose Consumption

    Obese people who consume increased amounts of fructose, a type of sugar that is found in particular in soft drinks and fruit juices, are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NFALD) and more its more severe forms, fatty inflammation and scarring. Now researchers at Duke University Medical Center believe they better understand what mechanism may account for fructose-related liver injury...

  • Insulin Resistance, Inflammation And A Muscle-Saving Protein

    In the online May 2 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine publish three distinct articles exploring: the complex interactions of lipids and inflammation in insulin resistance the roles of omega 3 fatty acids and a particular gene in fighting inflammation how elevated levels of a particu...

 
 
 
 
 

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