Counterfeit Diabetes Test Strips Discovered in US
Warning about fake diabetic blood test strips from OneTouch Ultra and OneTouch (Basic/Profile).
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Physician Resistance Hinders Diabetics Use Of Cutting Edge Technology
Diabetic patients who use newer technologies such as insulin pumps and blood glucose monitoring devices are better able to manage their disease and adhere to treatment regimens, with less daily pain, than with conventional treatments.
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Pycnogenol Reduces Diabetic Microangiopathy
Study reveals 68 percent improvement of blood flow.
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One In 523 Children and Adolescents Have Diabetes
The study found that type 2 diabetes was extremely rare in children under10 years of age of all races.
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Diabetes Sufferers Are Given New Hope
While insulin cell transplant helps to control diabetes, the insulin independence doesn't persist indefinitely.
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Clinical Trial Shows Islet Transplantation Is A Promising Procedure
A year after the final diabetes treatment, 44 percent of the transplant recipients no longer needed insulin injections, and an additional 28 percent had partial islet function
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Islet Transplantation Reveals Potential Benefits in Uncontrolled Type 1 Diabetes
Islet transplantation is a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes and for glucose control, but not a cure for type 1 diabetes yet.
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Diabetes, Not Obesity, Increases Risk of Developing Critical Illness and Early Death
Diabetes puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early, but obesity without diabetes does not.
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Family and Friends can Help Manage or Prevent Diabetes in Hispanic Communities
About 2.5 million Hispanic Americans age 20 or older struggle with diabetes in the United States.
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Hope for Significant New Diabetes Treatment in Stanford Discovery
findings could shake up diabetes research, lead to new classes of diabetes drugs and aid in efforts to develop stem cell treatments for diabetes.
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Leptin Could Combat Type 2 Diabetes
Gene therapy technique reverses type 2 diabetes.
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Insufficient Sleep Associated with Poorer Blood Glucose Control in African-Americans with Diabetes
Getting fewer hours of sleep or lower quality sleep may be associated with poorer blood glucose control among African Americans with diabetes.
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Sleep Loss Worsens Diabetes
Patients with type 2 diabetes who routinely suffer from poor quality sleep or short sleep of about six hours a night have poorer blood sugar control than those who sleep longer.
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Type 2 Diabetes Patients on Technosphere Insulin Exhibited No Adverse Effect
Inhaled diabetes drug is effective in study and inhaled insulin therapy was safe for diabetes patients.
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Research Leads To A Possible Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
A new diabetes vaccine being tested in a human clinical trial holds a great deal of promise for treating type 1 diabetes.
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Avandia(R) Reduced Risk of Progression From Pre-Diabetes To Type 2 Diabetes by 62 Percent
Pre diabetes is a precursor to the development of Type 2 Diabetes and this is the largest completed diabetes prevention trial to date.
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Exenatide Improves Blood Sugar Levels as Effectively as Biphasic Insulin Aspart
Diabetes drug improves blood sugar levels and boosts weight loss.
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Exubera Effective in Diabetes Patients who Have Respiratory Infections
Exubera is effective in diabetes patients with respiratory infections says Pfizer.
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Transplant Cures Rats' Type 2 Diabetes Without Need for Immune Suppression Drugs
Finding that we can cure type 2 diabetes in the same way is very significant because in humans type 2 diabetes is almost 20 times more prevalent than type 1 diabetes.
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Claiming Diagnostic Tests for Diabetes Genes Is Misleading
Claims that the discovery of a gene could help prevent diabetes may raise unrealistic expectations.
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New Study Seeks To Lower Diabetes Risk in Youth
Can the risk factors for type 2 diabetes be lowered by encouraging healthy behaviors and making changes in school food services.
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Blacks Have Poorer Diabetes Control Than Whites
This lower level of control of diabetes may partly explain why blacks have disproportionately higher rates of death and complications from diabetes.
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Chronically High Blood Sugar Linked To Risk of Cognitive Impairment
There is a connection between diabetes and cognitive problems, but what does this measurement tell us about a group of women with and without diabetes
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Study Supports Major Change in Diet Treatment for Diabetes
Low fat vegan diet rivals oral diabetes medications in federally funded study, could be a good diabetes treatment option.
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Compound In Dairy Products Targets Diabetes
Fatty acids commonly found in dairy products have successfully treated diabetes in mice and CLA compounds show promise in human trials signaling potential diabetes treatment.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine for Diabetes Has Scientific Backing
Berberine may be a helpful new treatment for type 2 diabetes; however, despite its widespread use in traditional medicine practices, it will still have to be evaluated.
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New Book De-Mystifies Nutrition and Meal Planning for People With Diabetes
Staying Healthy with Diabetes, Nutrition and Meal Planning, a new book from Joslin Diabetes Center, provides a "road map" to help guide people with diabetes and their families and friends down the road of healthy food choices.
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Diabetes Disease-Management Programs Improve Quality of Care
While diabetes disease management programs become more commonly used among physician groups, the effectiveness of improving diabetic patient's care remains questionable.
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New Gene Associated With Type 1 Diabetes
The gene called SUMO 4 contributes a portion of the risk of this form of diabetes.
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Insulin-Producing Cells Found in Variety of Tissues in Diabetes
Scientists, for the treatment of diabetes, could use it to generate insulin producing cells from other tissues.
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Researchers Cure Diabetes in Mice with Gene Therapy
Diabetes symptoms have apparently been treated by gene therapy in mice.
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Infections Link With Diabetes
Environmental factors such as common infections may be a cause for diabetes symptoms in children and young adults.
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Children of Diabetics Show Signs of Atherosclerosis
The blood vessels of people whose parents both have type 2 diabetes do not respond as well to changes in blood flow as those of people without a family history of diabetes.
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One in Three Americans Has Diabetes or Precursor to It
Complications are worse in teens with Type 2 Than Type 1 and prevalence of diagnosed diabetes is still rising.
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RBP4 Predicts Type 2 Diabetes
Elevated levels of a molecule called RBP4 can foretell early stages in the development of insulin resistance, a major cause of type 2 diabetes.
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Define Diabetes Differently
Doctor calls for rethinking definition and diagnosis of diabetes.
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Paying To Prevent Diabetes Is Cost Effective
It would be cost effective for Medicare to pay for diabetes prevention at age 50 rather than to deny prevention benefits until age 65.
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New Approach To Treating Diabetes
The diabetes treatment involves of lowering blood sugar levels by manipulating the release of sugar by liver cells.
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Diabetes Research Takes Wing Thanks To Long-Lived Fruit Fly
Why diabetes occurs more frequently as people age, and indeed why people live as long as they do.
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Physical Activity Linked To Improved Glucose Control in Children with Type 1 Diabetes
Children with type 1 diabetes who exercise regularly may have improved blood glucose levels compared with those who do not.
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