Most Recent Diabetes Related News & Articles

Diabetes Day: Early Detection Key to Well-Being

Here's the press release from the ADA on American Diabetes Alert Day.

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Periodontal Disease Can Lead To Gestational Diabetes

A study by a New York University dental research team has discovered evidence that pregnant women with periodontal (gum) disease are more likely to develop gestational diabetes mellitus than pregnant women with healthy gums.

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More Vitamin D in Childhood Cuts Later Diabetes Risk

FRIDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- Children who take vitamin D supplements may be less likely to develop type 1 diabetes later in life, according to researchers who analyzed the findings of five previously published studies.

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'Diabulimia' Triples Risk of Death Among Women With Diabetes

Women with type 1 diabetes who take less insulin than they should to try to lose weight triple their risk of dying compared to women who do not skip insulin doses, a new study finds.

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Diabetes' Toll Continues to Grow

Federal projections estimate that by 2050, some 48 million Americans will have type 2 diabetes. And the disease will bring with it complications such as blindness, hearing loss, kidney disease, nervous system disorders and amputations of extremities.

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Genetics May Rethink Care for Diabetes

WASHINGTON Diabetes is undergoing a genetics revolution that suggests there actually are many subtypes of the disease.
Weve got a whole group of diabetologists who have never heard of this, laments Dr. Andrew Hattersley, a British physician-scientist who pioneered how to treat single-gene subtypes collectively known as MODY.
Genetics research is showing diabetes is far more complicated than the simple type-1 and type-2 demarcations: * First theres MODY, shorthand for six different subtypes... read more

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Sweet Success: Doctors at VCU and Elsewhere Use Gastric Bypass and Banding Surgeries to Treat Diabetes

Mar. 20--Marcia Crum was taking seven to eight shots of insulin a day and a shot of long-acting insulin at night, and her diabetes was still out of control.
About a year after she had surgery for breast cancer, Crum in October 2006 had a type of weight-loss surgery that closes off most of the stomach so patients can't eat as much.

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Diabetic studies and what we can learn from them

What is all the fuss about the ACCORD study and the ADVANCE study? Both studies are trying to determine if reducing A1C to less than 6.5 is safe and effective in controlling type 2 diabetes and in lowering the risks for complications. There is a fundamental flaw in both studies.

The flaw is the assumption by the researchers that medicating type 2 diabetes is the best strategy. In this type 2 diabetic's opinion there is... read more

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OmniPod and Reading Tea Leave in the Financial Press.

Short review of Omni Pod's conference call with Wall Street.

Insulet Corporation’s Q4 07 Earnings Report Call Transcript is on line at Seeking Alpha. This is my blogger digest version of it on YDMV.net

They talked about CGMs, Production, Making Pods in China, and other topics

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Grape Skins Stop Diabetic Complications

Resveratrol -- found in grape skins -- can stop diabetic complications such as heart disease, kidney disease and blindness, a British study found.
Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, England, say resveratrol -- also present in seeds, peanuts and red wine -- can protect against cellular damage to blood vessels caused by high production of glucose in diabetes.
Principal investigator Dr. Matt Whiteman says elevated levels of glucose that circulate in... read more

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