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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Anti-Inflammatory Drug May Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
An inexpensive anti-inflammatory drug similar to aspirin, salsalate, may prevent type 2 diabetes by lowering blood glucose and reducing inflammation.
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Resource Prevents Diabetes In African-Americans
A new diabetes prevention resource is designed to encourage and help faith-based and community organizations get actively involved in deterring preventable diabetes among African-Americans.
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Team-based approach improves diabetes care
The goals of the this diabetes care research include increasing awareness of the gap between current practice and acceptable standards of diabetes care among internists; increasing internists' awareness of what constitutes high quality, evidence-based diabetes care; and providing educational tools to improve diabetes treatment.
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Intensive blood sugar treatment in trial of diabetes and cardiovascular disease changed
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped one treatment within a large, ongoing North American clinical trial of diabetes and cardiovascular disease 18 months early due to safety concerns after review of available data, although the study will continue.
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Cutting Caffeine May Help Control Diabetes
Daily consumption of caffeine in coffee, tea or soft drinks increases blood sugar levels for people with type 2 diabetes.
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Program Improves Diabetes Patient Outcomes
Patients with diabetes in the one-year pilot program substantially increased compliance for the key HbA1c blood test from 43% to 91%.
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Genaera Presents Promising Preclinical Type 2 Diabetes Data For Trodusquemine
Genaera Corporation announced a poster presentation of preclinical data on trodusquemine for treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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Study Finds Further Association Between Diabetes, Pancreatic Cancer
A new study found that 40 percent of pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed with diabetes prior to their pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
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Diabetes Cost US $174B In 2007
Diabetes cost the U.S. $174 billion in 2007 in both direct care and lost productivity.
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Welchol Receives FDA Approval To Reduce Blood Glucose
FDA has approved Daiichi Sankyo's Welchol to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes.
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Glycemion To Market Consumer Diabetes Risk Assessment
BIOSAFE Medical Technologies has announced the development of the first consumer test to evaluate diabetes risk.
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Scientists Identify New Mechanism Of Insulin Resistance
Resistance to insulin that precedes type 2 diabetes may stem from a "metabolic traffic jam".
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FDA Approves Welchol To Reduce Blood Glucose In Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
FDA has approved Daiichi Sankyo's Welchol to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Type 1 Diabetes Triggered By Lazy Regulatory T-Cells
In some individuals, the specialized immunoregulatory T-cells may lose their effectiveness and become lazy over time, leading to the onset of type 1 diabetes.
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How To Handle Diabetes While Sickness
It is hard enough to be under the weather but it is even more difficult to handle being sick if you have diabetes.
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Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Receptors May Improve Glucose Control In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Receptors, or GDIRs, may improve glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Test Strip Recall For CONTOUR TS
Bayer Diabetes Care has initiated a voluntary market recall of test strips (sensors) used exclusively with the Contour TS Blood Glucose Meter.
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Bayer Diabetes Care Recalls Glucose Test Strips
Bayer Diabetes Care has initiated a voluntary market recall of test strips (sensors) used exclusively with the Contour TS Blood Glucose Meter.
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Internet Sites Can Help Teens, Adults Manage Diabetes
Missouri Department of Health is recommending two new Internet sites to help Missourians more effectively deal with diabetes.
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More Evidence Suggests Diabetes Drug May Be Dangerous
A popular class of drugs for treating type 2 diabetes is under scrutiny again.
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Black Community Urged To Address Diabetes Risk By Making Lifestyle Changes
Diabetes poses a serious threat to the black community.
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Community Health Centers Show Improved Diabetes Care
Over the four-year span between 1998 and 2002, community health centers not only improved their processes for managing diabetes, but also saw gains in their patients' health.
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Cobalamin Demonstrates Ability To Reduce Glucose Levels
Access Pharmaceuticals has demonstrated the ability, using the company's proprietary Cobalamin technology, to significantly reduce glucose levels in an animal model of diabetes.
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Diabetes Is A Greater Problem In Chicago Than Other Communities
MBGH releases report on the prevalence, costs and quality of care for patients with Type 2 diabetes.
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Monotherapy BYETTA Improves Glucose Control, Weight Loss In Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly announced study results from a study of monotherapy injection taken twice daily in drug-naive patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Helping Americans With Diabetes And Their Families Make Holiday Season Healthy
Holiday celebrations might have some people feeling jolly, but for the 21 million Americans with diabetes and their families, this time of the year raises challenges and anxiety over what to eat.
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More Young Adults With Diabetes Hospitalized
Obesity is taking a hefty toll on the health of children and young adults, leaving more Americans facing the burden of a lifetime of diabetes care and management.
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Are You At Risk For Diabetes?
Kentucky Department for Public Health encourages everyone to find out if you're are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
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MetaCure To Study Gastric Stimulator For Type 2 Diabetes Patients
MetaCure Limited began patient enrollment in a national diabetes clinical trial of its TANTALUS System.
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Chinese-American, Black Women With Certain Diets Have Higher Risk For Developing Type 2 Diabetes
Chinese-American and black women who regularly consume foods with a high glycemic index, such as white bread, potatoes and noodles, have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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People With Diabetes, Sickle Cell Trait Should Have Reliable A1C Test
A new information campaign highlights the importance of using accurate methods to test hemoglobin A1c in people with diabetes who have sickle cell trait or other inherited forms of variant hemoglobin.
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SIRT1 Activators Could Be The Treatment For Aging and Diabetes
Sirtris Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Drug Candidates 1,000 Times More Potent than Resveratrol.
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ADA Expands Commitment To Youth With Type 1 Diabetes
For many years, the ADA has helped families and health care providers manage type 1 diabetes through resources and local programs.
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Novel Whole Grain May Help Combat Growing Diabetes Epidemic
Adding novel whole grain Salba, a variant of the grain that sprouts from the popular Chia Pet, to a healthy diet may reduce the risk of heart disease in people with Type 2 diabetes.
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Mercury Therapeutics: Breakthrough For Type-2 Diabetes Patients
MTI's specific implementation of new technology is to identify and develop small molecule activators of AMP activated protein kinase to treat type-2 diabetes.
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Living Donors May Be Best Source of Insulin-producing Islets for Diabetes Treatment
Islet cell transplantation is the only known cure for insulin-dependent diabetes, but there are simply not enough deceased donors available to meet the demand for islet cells.
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Tennessee Observes American Diabetes Month
Governor Phil Bredesen has signed a resolution proclaiming November as American Diabetes Month in Tennessee.
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Pedometers Motivate People With Diabetes To Walk More
The use of a pedometer and a Web site that tracked physical activity levels proved to be powerful motivators for people with diabetes.
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