Why Good Health is in the Genes

<p>While we all have the same general health concerns, some people may be more at risk from certain illnesses because of their race.</p>
<p>A UK study recently suggested that black men in England are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men. </p>
<p>Researchers at the University of Bristol looked at hospital records for both white and black men and found that the rate of prostate cancer was significantly higher... read more

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Managing Diabetes With Exercise: 6 Tips for Nerve Pain

What kind of exercise is safe - and fun - if you have nerve pain from diabetes, called diabetic neuropathy? And how can you stay motivated after that first flush of inspiration fades?

"It depends on where you're starting," says Dace L. Trence, MD, an endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Care Center at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. "For the person who has been doing nothing, you would certainly want to... read more

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Genetic Screening May ID Diabetes Risk

Genetic screening can help identify people at risk for type 2 diabetes, but it adds little to traditional methods for determining risk, two new studies show.

Researchers searched for 16 recently identified genetic variants associated with an increased risk for diabetes in one study and 18 diabetes-linked variants in another.

In both studies, the more genetic variants the participants had, the greater their diabetes risk.

But genetic screening was only marginally more predictive than recognized... read more

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Overnight Dialysis Saves Lives: Study

Dialysis for eight hours a night, three times a week, reduced the risk of death for kidney patients by nearly 80 percent, compared to conventional, four-hour dialysis three times a week, a new study found.

This type of improvement is important and necessary, the study's lead author said. "Unfortunately, the mortality rate of patients treated by conventional four hours, three times weekly hemodialysis remains unacceptably high, despite several improvements in dialysis technology and general... read more

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Girl's Baby Sister May Hold Hope for Diabetes Cure

<p>Nov. 30--GREENSBORO -- At age 7, Chandler Simpson learned she had Type 1 diabetes. </p>
<p>And at almost the same time, she learned that she was going to have a sibling who might someday help cure the disease. </p>
<p>And that hope rests in part on cells taken from the amniotic fluid, placenta and umbilical cord of her baby sister, Isabelle.</p>

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Vitamin K Slows Insulin Resistance in Elderly Men

Results of a study published in the November issue of Diabetes Care showed that vitamin K supplementation slowed the progression of insulin resistance in men ages 60 to 80.

The 3-year clinical trial at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA) included 355 non-diabetic men and women ages 60 to 80.

One group of men and women took daily multivitamins containing 500 micrograms of vitamin K, as... read more

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Local med student wages war on diabetes

A 23-year-old Valencia man who struggled with obesity as a youngster has won a scholarship to continue studies on eliminating obesity and curing type 2 diabetes.

Parents Nick and Lois Brestoff said Friday their son will succeed.

"Jonathan is a go-for-it kind of guy," Lois Brestoff said of her son. "If you don't go for it, you are never going to get it."

This month Jonathan Brestoff won the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which will... read more

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The JDRF Study on Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Today, at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the researchers for the JDRF study group presented their findings, just published on-line in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial is almost certainly to become a landmark study, a carefully done randomly controlled trial (RCT) by the JDRF study group on the usefulness of continuous glucose sensing in a carefully selected population of patients with Type 1 diabetes, all of whom were either... read more

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Should we change the rules for new drug approval to include cardiovascular outcomes in diabetes medications

On July 1-2, 2008, the FDA held an open hearing on standards for drug approval of current diabetes drugs.

The Advisory Committee voted 12-4 to request that cardiovascular outcome studies be begun at the start of the process for drug approval, and that the drug studies be completed during or after the drug approval process.

The Advisory Committee was divided on whether the trials assessing cardiovascular risk should be done before a drug is approved,... read more

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Diabetics Spend Thousands More on Care

TUESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- People with diabetes spend thousands of dollars more on medical costs each year than those without the disease, and that disparity increases substantially each year after the initial diabetes diagnosis.
That's the finding of a new study by researchers at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute in North Carolina.

The researchers calculated that a 50-year-old newly diagnosed diabetes patient spends $4,174 more on medical care a year... read more

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