SoloSTAR Prefilled Insulin Pens Accurate
A new study examining the dose accuracy of the SoloSTAR disposable insulin pen for diabetes patients, prefilled with Lantus or Apidra, found the pens accurately delivered all insulin doses within standard limits defined by the ISO.
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Insulin Pumps Linked To Injuries, Death In Diabetic Teenagers
Teens with Type 1 Diabetes often use Insulin pumps as part of treating the disease but an FDA study shows the device has been linked to injuries and a few deaths.
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New Insights Into Cause Of Diabetes
University of Michigan researchers have new clues to what goes awry at the cellular level in type 2 diabetes.
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Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications, Costs
A highly detailed mathematical simulation model can help people with undiagnosed diabetes identify whether they likely have the disease and can predict ways for dramatically reducing the costs and complications associated with this now epidemic illness.
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Diabetes Before Pregnancy Is On The Rise
Study of 175,000 teenage girls and adult women finds that diabetes is doubling before pregnancy.
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Zsweet Improves Life For Diabetics, Overweight
The modern world is entrenched in a love hate affair with sugar. It proliferates throughout our daily diet, we crave it, we adore it and yet it destroys our health.
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Leading The Way To Earlier Diagnosis Of Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers at Children's Research Institute recently made significant discoveries in juvenile diabetes diagnosis.
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Pelikan, Lilly Alliance Promotes Diabetes Education
Pelikan Technologies and Eli Lilly will promote awareness and education in the management and treatment of diabetes, including insulin therapy, insulin delivery devices and technological advancements in lancing designed to optimize Finger Health and Glucose Monitoring.
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Abbott Blood Glucose Monitoring System Now Available With No Coding
Abbott announced the availability of the FreeStyle Freedom Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System.
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Mid-Life DIabetes Linked To Higher Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease
Men who develop diabetes in mid-life appear to significantly increase their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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Aggressively Lowering Cholesterol, Blood Pressure May Reverse Atherosclerosis In Diabetics
Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets in adults with type 2 diabetes may help to prevent - and possibly reverse - hardening of the arteries.
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Tolerx Advancing Novel Type 1 Diabetes Agent Into Clinical Trial
Tolerx is proceeding toward the initiation of a Phase III study of otelixizumab in new-onset type 1 diabetes.
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Diabetes Patients May Have Citrus Supplement To Lower Glucose, Cholesterol
An all-natural dietary supplement made from citrus may help people with type 2 diabetes lower their blood glucose numbers after a meal and their LDL-cholesterol levels.
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How Patients Can Meet Criteria For Insulin Pump Therapy
While many health plan insurers will pay for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus to have an insulin pump, the criteria for approval is not always clear.
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Living Cell Treatment Heals Diabetic Foot Sores Fast
A Type II diabetic, with multiple medical problems, Moses had an ugly, uncomfortable sore on the bottom of his right foot which just wouldn't go away.
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Diabetics Can Reverse Atherosclerosis With Cholesterol, Hypertension Control
Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets in adults with type 2 diabetes may help to prevent - and possibly reverse - hardening of the arteries, according to new research supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
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Tart Cherries May Lower Risk For Type 2 Diabetes
Tart cherries may help reduce inflammation, potentially lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in animals.
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Researchers Discover New Effect For Insulin
Insulin has a previously unknown effect that plays a role in aging and lifespan, a finding that could ultimately provide a mechanism for gene manipulations that could help people live longer and healthier lives.
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Stop Diabetes Before It Starts
More than 54 million American adults have prediabetes, but many of those people may never have to live with diabetes and all of its health complications thanks to a new prediabetes lifestyle management course created by Kronos Optimal Health Company.
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Vaccine Induced Inflammation Linked To Epidemic Of Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome
Data shows a 50% reduction of type 2 diabetes occurred in Japanese children following the discontinuation of a single vaccine, a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
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Ranexa Increases Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion
CV Therapeutics's preclinical research showed that ranolazine increased glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in pancreatic islets isolated from animals and humans.
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Collaboration Uncovers Surprising New Genetic Clues To Diabetes
Scientists have identified six more genetic variants involved in type 2 diabetes, boosting to 16 the total number of genetic risk factors associated with increased risk of the disease.
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TAXUS Stent Shows Low Re-intervention Rates In Diabetic Patients
The one-year pooled ARRIVE data for TAXUS stent confirmed the known higher mortality rate for diabetics versus non-diabetics with cardiovascular disease.
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Blood Vessel Protein Treatment For Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy In Mice
Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindness - age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy - can be treated in mice by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells.
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Reduced Lung Capacity Accelerates With Diabetes
People who have diabetes encounter a faster loss of lung capacity than those who do not have diabetes.
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Researchers Uncover Best Cholesterol Lowering Treatment For Type II Diabetes
The VAP cholesterol test from Atherotech is helping physicians pinpoint the most effective cholesterol and heart disease risk lowering treatments in Type II diabetes patients.
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Silent Disease Diabets Often Goes Undiagnosed For 5-10 Years
It is estimated that nearly one third of Type 2 diabetes cases are unaware that they have the disease.
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Check Your Risk For Type 2 Diabetes
State health officials are urging people to learn their risk for developing Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes.
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Challenging Norm May Lead To New Therapy For Type 2 Diabetes
Two former major pharma scientists challenged the concept behind the leading treatments for type 2 diabetes, a disease that impacts millions of Americans.
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Phosphagenics Initiates Clinical Trial In Type 1 Diabetes
Phosphagenics Limited has received ethics approval to commence treating patients with Type 1 diabetes in a Phase 2 clinical trial using its patented transdermal insulin delivery system, TPM/Insulin.
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Diamyd Diabetes Vaccine To Start Phase III Trials
MPA has approved Diamyd Medical's application to commence Phase III studies with the therapeutic diabetes vaccine Diamyd.
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More Kids With Diabetes, Few Specialized Pediatricians
For every 290 children with diabetes, there is only one board-certified pediatric endocrinologist available to care for them.
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Diabetes Linked To Joint Replacement Complications, Higher Costs
People with diabetes who undergo knee or hip replacements are more likely to experience serious complications resulting in longer hospital stays and higher costs.
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Current Therapies Have No Advantage In Treatment Of Diabetic Neuropathy
A drug's effect on a patient's quality of life is the attribute that most influences neurologists' prescribing decisions in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy.
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Diabetics Dying From Heart Attack Deaths Doubled
Diabetics suffering from heart attack have doubled during the past ten years.
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Frog Skin - New Diabetes Treatment
Slime from frog skin can improve diabetes treatment.
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Increased Waist Size Is A Symptom Of Diabetes
Increase waist size is the one of first symptoms of diabetes.
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Software Identifies Overlooked Diabetes Patients
New software developed by a GP can find people with potential risk for diabetes who have passed blood test, but have been overlooked by doctors.
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Stem Cells Therapy May Provide Diabetes Treatment
Diabetes patients may benefit from receiving treatment from a groundbreaking research that transfers human embryonic stem cells into insulin releasing cells.
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Cure For Type 1 Diabetes Found
New treatment gives hope of cure to type 1 diabetes patients.
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