Between the years 2004 and 2009, there have been over half a million unfavorable reactions amongst those taking anti-diabetic drugs. Out of these reports, 138 were instances of bladder cancer in diabetics taking one of more than 15 separate anti-diabetic drugs. However, one fifth of those bladder cancers were in diabetics who took Actos (pioglitazone). [...]
The federal government of the US announced that the diabetes drug Avandia will be pulled out from pharmacies, since it poses a heart attack risk. Steven Nissen, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic stated, “Eleven years after this drug was introduced, it will be so restricted in access that virtually no one will [...]
According to research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, even a minute difference in diet could affect diabetes risk. In this particular study, which was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, there were 69 healthy but overweight candidates who were not afflicted by diabetes but were at risk [...]
New research conducted at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center indicates that a common and widely available test can be used to predict early death in those afflicted with diabetes. According to Donald W. Bowden, Ph.D., the director of the Center for Diabetes Research at Wake Forest Baptist and the lead investigator, “We’ve discovered that [...]
According to results of a study presented at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting, men who suffer from diabetes are more likely to have the need of invasive second- and third-line therapies to control erectile dysfunction (ED) compared to those men who do not suffer from diabetes. Such therapies also include surgical [...]
Information gleaned from a case-control study indicated that Pregravid quantities of body mass index (BMI), serum glucose, and prehypertension (also known as hypertension) had independent associations with the third type of diabetes that affects pregnant women i.e., gestational diabetes. Women who had a BMI ?25 and a blood sugar level of 100 to 140 mg/dL [...]
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in support and conjunction with Amylin have embarked on a research collaboration to offer monetary support for clinical studies to examine the possibility of mixing Pramlintide, which is an analog of amylin (a human hormone), together with insulin to address those who are affected by Type 1 diabetes. Pramlintide [...]
A family of health care companies known as HealthPartners will, during the fall of 2011, study an expanded use of a personalized tool known as the Diabetes Wizard in certain care clinics to review cardiovascular risk. The ultimate aim is to provide these tools to other health care organizations. Since diabetes is a disease that [...]
According to a new research, women who are afflicted with diabetes, obesity or high blood pressure before pregnancy are likelier to give birth to autistic children. Irva Hertz-Picciotto PhD, an autism researcher at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute, stated “For mothers with at least one of these conditions, there is a 60% increased [...]
Currently the number of children in Australia who suffer from Type 1 diabetes is high when compared to global levels. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare believes that there will be a 10 percent increase by 2013. This revelation comes amid calls for a kidney screening program to identify early signs of kidney disease [...]
According to new research, spending too much time in front of the TV could lead to diabetes and heart disease. On average, Americans spend around 5 hours watching TV while Europeans and Australians spend 4 hours. These statistics have been compiled by Frank Hu and his researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health. As [...]
