Diabetes and Diabetic Health News

Bringing you the latestnews and announcements about diabetes. Including research and clinical trials, self-help, diabetic recipes, support groups and everything relevant to diabetics and diabetes health professionals. News is updated at least twice daily.

Canadian companies looking to regain the world lead in diabetes research (Canadian Business)

VANCOUVER (CP) - After making a splash with its announcement that it could produce insulin at a commercially viable level in a genetically modified safflower, SemBioSys (TSX:SBS) chief executive Andrew Baum's phone has kept ringing.

Diabetes Disease-management Programs Improve Quality Of Care Research Finds (Medical News Today)

With diabetes disease-management programs becoming more commonly used among physician groups, the question arises: Just how effective are they at improving patient care? The answer, according to UCLA researchers, is that they lead to better examination and testing--but not to better control of key [click link for full article]

Diabetes Drug Duel (Forbes)

Doctors and investors get their first look at two hot new diabetes pills.

Five Times the Fight: Students Strike Blow When Diabetes Hits Home (RedNova)

By Cynthia Mccloud, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Jul. 23--Diabetes is an epidemic driven by sedentary lifestyle and obesity. This spring, Kingwood Elementary students took steps to raise awareness and add to the war chest in the battle to cure and prevent the disease.

Demand grows for meal programs

Star-Gazette - I get a diabetic diet, and I've been holding my weight and my blood pressure has been good." For many seniors like Snyder, the program is an important part of their day - providing not only nutrition but socialization with the delivery drivers. Demand ...

Urine Glucose Oxidase Test

WCAX - (HealthDay News) -- Diabetic retinopathy results when fluctuating blood sugar levels and other effects of diabetes cause damage to blood vessels in the eye's retina. It can affect both type 1 and type 2 diabetics. Weakened vessels in the eye often ...

Empty kayak off Palos Verdes Estates coast leads to intensive search

Daily Breeze - Rescuers found insulin inside the kayak, which led them to think the owner may have had a diabetic episode, said David Carolan with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Identification found in the craft belongs to a 68-year-old man. Officials did ...

Lilly And Alcon Sign Marketing Collaboration For Potentially The First ...

Medical News Today - Arxxant is an investigational oral drug for the treatment of moderate to severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, a diabetic eye disease. The co-promotion agreement is subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Arxxant, which ...

Hypoglycemia (Diabetic) & Hyperglycemia

WCAX - Hypoglycemia is defined as a low blood sugar (glucose) level. Hyperglycemia is defined as too high a blood sugar (glucose) level. As you regulate your blood glucose and keep your diabetes record, there are two problems that you need to be able to ...

Firehouse helps staff with Spanish (The Arizona Republic)

It's a simple verb-tense change from ¿Toma usted insulina? to ¿Tomó usted insulina?

The art & science of healing (St. Petersburg Times)

A doctor who took an unconventional path to medicine uses unconventional treatments in the job he loves.

Coffee's been getting a bum rap

Lexington Herald-Leader - Glug enough of it, research suggests, and you'll lower your risk of diabetes, liver cirrhosis, Parkinson's disease, gallstones and suicide. You'll also sprint better. But not long ago, in the 1970s and '80s, coffee's name was mud. It was connected ...

Lilly And Alcon Sign Marketing Collaboration For Potentially The First Oral Medication For Diabetic Retinopathy (Medical News To

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Alcon, Inc.(NYSE: ACL) today announced that they have signed a long-term agreement toco-promote ruboxistaurin mesylate (proposed brand name, Arxxant (TM),pronounced ark-ZONT) in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Arxxant is aninvestigational oral drug for the treatment of moderate to severenonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, a diabetic eye disease. [click link for

Diabetes Editorial Series

Imperial Valley Press Online - If you have an account already, just enter your Member ID/password to access this page. Please note, this is not the same as our Paid Archive username and password . To use certain features of ivpressonline.com, you must register on the form provided ...

Gene Variant Increases Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (Kansas City InfoZine)

But Healthy Lifestyle Changes Reduce Genetic Risk

Exercise improves blood glucose control in Type 2 diabetes (New Kerala)

Washington: Exercise, dietary changes and medication have long been the cornerstones of managing type 2 diabetes. But few studies examine how exercise actually benefits these patients.

Urine Glucose Oxidase Test

WCAX - This test is used primarily to monitor urine glucose in people with diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes) is a condition that causes problems in controlling the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is a common disorder that ...

Researchers Reverse Parkinson's Symptoms in Animals

WAFF - This finding really shows us where we can focus our efforts for new therapeutics that target the receptor they have identified as the one that's key in the regulation of food intake," said Philip Smith, director of the Division of Diabetes ...

From the National Women's Health Report: Heart Disease - From ...

WTVM - The reality, however, is that women, especially women with diabetes, are much less likely to be on aspirin therapy than men. "We believe this is related to physicians not recognizing that women are at high risk of cardiovascular disease when ...

Risk factors for diabetic feet (The Star Online)

PATIENTS with diabetes mellitus often have trouble with their feet. High blood sugar levels over a period of time causes damage to the nerves – peripheral neuropathy – leading to a loss of feeling in the extremities. Damage also occurs to the blood vessels of the feet.

Dolphins aid sick children (Gulf Daily News)

DOLPHINS can be therapeutic and help diabetic children overcome difficulties linked with the disease, according to experts. About 50 diabetic children, aged four to 18, were treated to a visit to the Dolphin Park, at Al Fateh Corniche, by the Bahrain Diabetes Society.

Diabetes is on the rise but mostly preventable

Olympian - A recent study found the occurrence of Type 2 diabetes has doubled over the last 30 years. Another estimated that a third of U.S. adults - more than 73 million - have diabetes or may be developing it. Simply put, it's an epidemic, and it's driven by ...

Hypoglycemia (Diabetic) & Hyperglycemia

WCAX - SATURDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- If you are already at high risk for getting type 2 diabetes, antidepressant drugs can boost that risk, according to new research reported Saturday. The report was based on a re-analysis of part of the Diabetes ...

Independent Health, Seneca Nation launch initiative

Observer - Redeye plans to eventually become involved with research on Diabetes and wants to learn more about the prevention and management. She says her life has been impacted by the disease with several family members being diagnosed with Diabetes. “I ...

Diabetic Retinopathy

WCAX - Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the blood vessels in the eye caused by diabetes and is the leading cause of new blindness among American adults aged 20 to 65. Diabetic retinopathy is caused by diabetes. It affects the retina - the light-sensitive ...

Juvenile Diabetes

WCAX - Juvenile diabetes mellitus is now more commonly called Type 1 diabetes. It is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood glucose levels due to a deficiency of insulin secretion in the pancreas. After a meal, a portion of the ...

Learning how to handle diabetes (The Daily Reflector)

Nearly 400 people got free blood pressure, cholesterol, eye and foot examinations Saturday at a conference on diabetes, making it the largest turnout in the event's five-year history, organizers said.

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