Diabetes Care:
Diabetes Symptoms, Treatment of Diabetes and Articles on Diabetes Care
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Feb 27th, 2009
A visit with her mother to the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Expo two years ago prompted Genevieve Ellis to earn her Girl Scout Bronze Award. She used what she learned at the Expo to tell others about the disease that kills hundreds of Utahns every year.
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Feb 23rd, 2009
A UK based Canadian diabetes researcher has harnessed a new drug discovery tool to identify a new player in the body's insulin secretion process. This finding could spark a completely new class of drugs for type 2 diabetes treatment.
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Feb 13th, 2009
Medicare yesterday announced a clarification in its policy for Medicare health insurance coverage of bariatric surgery as a treatment for certain beneficiaries with type 2 (or non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.
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Feb 6th, 2009
Researchers in 20 medical centers across the country are enrolling adults with type 2 diabetes who have poorly controlled blood glucose to participate in a clinical study, Targeting Inflammation with Salsalate in Type 2 Diabetes (TINSAL-T2D).
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Feb 2nd, 2009
The A1C test has been used for many years to monitor blood sugar in diabetic patients. Many of the leading diabetes organizations are working on new guidelines that will be published later this year. Consensus of the groups could recommend the A1C test as a tool for diagnosing the type 2 diabetes.
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Jan 31st, 2009
Diabetes is exploding — it now afflicts some 200 million individuals worldwide and is fast becoming the No. 1 epidemic of our time.
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Jan 29th, 2009
In the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed.
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Jan 28th, 2009
New research shows that diabetes more than doubles the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The risk is especially high for anyone diagnosed with diabetes in midlife, after age 65. The results come from the "Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins, "which tracked 13,693 Swedish twins aged 65 or older beginning in 1998.
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Jan 26th, 2009
Larry H. Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, had both legs amputated on Friday, January 23. According to a press release by Jazz spokesman Jonathan Rinehart, the legs were amputated 6 inches below the knee. Rinehart said Friday's surgery was the result of complications from Type 2 diabetes. He stated that the 64-year-old Miller is recovering in a hospital.
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Jan 22nd, 2009
Approximately 24 million Americans suffer from diabetes. In addition to the consumption of diets high in fat and sugar, a new study suggests that the air you breathe may also be risky.
