Study: Diabetes drug fails to slow artery buildup

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The controversial diabetes pill Avandia failed to significantly slow plaque buildup in heart arteries compared with an older drug, though there were some hopeful signs in a new study reported Wednesday.

Avandia, once a blockbuster drug made by British-based GlaxoSmithKline PLC, has been under a cloud since May 2007, when a medical journal report suggested it may raise the risk of heart attacks and heart-related deaths. The American Diabetes Association recently... read more

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Diabetes Breakthrough and Affordable Solar Energy Among Presentations -- Israel's First Female U.N. Ambassador Makes Los Angeles Debut at Beverly Hills Symposium Featuring World-Renowned Researchers

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Gabriela Shalev, the first female to serve as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, will make her Los Angeles debut since being appointed to the post on Sept. 3 of this year. Shalev, who most recently served as President of the Academic Council and Rector of Ono Academic College in Israel, will be the keynote speaker at the Southwest Region of American... read more

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Vitamins C, E do not cut heart attack, stroke risk: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neither vitamin C nor vitamin E supplements cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke in a U.S. study published on Sunday.

And a second study failed to show that taking low-dose aspirin helped prevent heart and artery disease among Japanese people with diabetes.

Many people take vitamin supplements to try to ward off chronic disease. In a study aiming to establish whether they prevent heart disease, 14,641 doctors... read more

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Diabetes: Aspirin Heart Perk Questioned

Nov. 10, 2008 -- Taking low-dose aspirin may not prevent diabetes patients from experiencing heart "events," new research shows.

Those findings come from a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association and another study published last month in BMJ. Those two studies don't question the heart benefits of low-dose aspirin in people who already have heart disease. Instead, the new studies are about aspirin's effects on people with diabetes who have... read more

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C-peptide Emerging as Significant Factor in Nerve Recovery

Because scientists often tend to dismiss what they don't fully understand, many of them used to think that C-peptide had no physiological function. But while it's true that C-peptide does nothing to lower blood sugar, recent research is finding that it might have a role in preventing diabetes complications.

C-peptide binds to cell surfaces and activates cell-signaling pathways, stimulating enzymes that usually have reduced activity in people with type 1.

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Looking to Participate in a Clinical Trial? Here Are Some Good Sites to Explore

Clinical trials have been a staple of diabetes research ever since 1922, when doctors in a Toronto hospital injected a young boy dying from the disease with pancreatic extracts. (The extracts contained the recently discovered hormone, insulin. The boy survived and lived another 13 years.)

These days, most diabetes clinical trials involve insulin or drugs: new insulin analogs in the case of people with type 1 diabetes and new medications, oral or injected, for... read more

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Study: Florida near top in diabetes cases

The rate of new cases of diagnosed diabetes rose by more than 90 percent among adults over the last 10 years — and Florida was listed as one of the states with the highest age-adjusted incidence, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.

The data showed that the incidence of new cases of diagnosed diabetes has increased from 4.8 per 1,000 people during 1995-1997 to 9.1 per 1,000 in 2005-2007 in 33... read more

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Many more children on medication, study says

Hundreds of thousands more children are taking medications for chronic diseases, with a huge spike over a four-year period in the number given drugs to treat conditions once seen primarily in adults and now linked to what has become an epidemic of childhood obesity.

In a study appearing today in the journal Pediatrics, researchers saw surges in the number of U.S. children taking prescription medicines for diabetes and asthma, with smaller increases in those taking... read more

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Hawaii Shows Low Diabetes Rate

HONOLULU (AP) _ A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Hawaii has one of the lowest rates of new diabetes cases in the country.

The report says that fewer than six out of 1,000 adults were diagnosed with diabetes in Hawaii, Wyoming and Minnesota in recent years.

But Valerie Ah Cook, coordinator for the state Health Department's Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, says the... read more

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Pregnancy Weight Gain, Big Babies Linked

Oct. 31, 2008 -- Gaining 40 pounds or more during pregnancy nearly doubles the risk of having a baby who weighs 9 pounds or more, in turn increasing the health risks to mother and baby, according to a new study.

Excessive pregnancy weight gain and big babies have often been linked, says Teresa Hillier, MD, senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Ore., and the study's lead author. Researchers have also... read more

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