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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While insulin cell transplant helps to control diabetes, the insulin independence doesn't persist indefinitely.
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
Islet transplantation is a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes and for glucose control, but not a cure for type 1 diabetes yet.
Diabetes puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early, but obesity without diabetes does not.
About 2.5 million Hispanic Americans age 20 or older struggle with diabetes in the United States.
findings could shake up diabetes research, lead to new classes of diabetes drugs and aid in efforts to develop stem cell treatments for diabetes.
Gene therapy technique reverses type 2 diabetes.
Getting fewer hours of sleep or lower quality sleep may be associated with poorer blood glucose control among African Americans with 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.
Inhaled diabetes drug is effective in study and inhaled insulin therapy was safe for diabetes patients.
A new diabetes vaccine being tested in a human clinical trial holds a great deal of promise for treating type 1 diabetes.
Pre diabetes is a precursor to the development of Type 2 Diabetes and this is the largest completed diabetes prevention trial to date.
Diabetes drug improves blood sugar levels and boosts weight loss.
Exubera is effective in diabetes patients with respiratory infections says Pfizer.
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.
Claims that the discovery of a gene could help prevent diabetes may raise unrealistic expectations.
Can the risk factors for type 2 diabetes be lowered by encouraging healthy behaviors and making changes in school food services.
This lower level of control of diabetes may partly explain why blacks have disproportionately higher rates of death and complications from diabetes.
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
Low fat vegan diet rivals oral diabetes medications in federally funded study, could be a good diabetes treatment option.
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.
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.
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.
While diabetes disease management programs become more commonly used among physician groups, the effectiveness of improving diabetic patient's care remains questionable.
The gene called SUMO 4 contributes a portion of the risk of this form of diabetes.
Scientists, for the treatment of diabetes, could use it to generate insulin producing cells from other tissues.
Diabetes symptoms have apparently been treated by gene therapy in mice.
Environmental factors such as common infections may be a cause for diabetes symptoms in children and young adults.
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.
Elevated levels of a molecule called RBP4 can foretell early stages in the development of insulin resistance, a major cause of type 2 diabetes.