In today’s world, with new illnesses being heard of almost every year, health problems such as obesity and diseases such as cancer have also become even more common. Diabetes too, is one such disease. A mere mention of these diseases causes people to panic , but despite the amount of awareness being raised among the [...]
If you want to avoid a problem the best way you can go about it is to arm yourself with knowledge. This can easily be done thanks to the vast degree of access that you can afford via cyberspace. However, diabetes and diabetic prevention is something that is easily attainable provided you know what needs [...]
One of the most significant issues that pregnant women face is temporary diabetes or what is known as gestational diabetes. The most worrying issue here is that gestational diabetes may at some point lead to Type 2 diabetes later on in life, as per research. According to Dr. Brian Egan, Provena Saint Joseph obstetrician/gynecologist, almost [...]
Scientists from the Center for Nutritional Genomics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found out how insulin increases fat storage during feeding while another study led to the breakthrough of a new “fasting pathway”, which points the route to a set of diabetes drugs that can bring back unusually high glucose levels in [...]
According to a new study, American children who are treated with growth hormone are eight and a half times likelier to develop Type 2 diabetes compared to those kids who are not on growth hormone treatment. Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company, who conducted the research found that out of the 11,000 kids who were on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Weight Watchers of Las Vegas is providing a free program for kids. This new service takes place in tandem with its youth and family specialty meetings. This initiative serves to handle the issues of diabetes and obesity head on. Weight Watchers, which is the world’s foremost provider of weight management services, stated that this new [...]
According to Melbourne scientists, a breakthrough in diabetes research could lead to a vaccine for Type 1 diabetes within a mere two years. Scientists in Melbourne made the discovery that the nasal spray vaccine could help stave off a diabetic patient’s immune system from obliterating the patient’s insulin producing cells. However, it is worthwhile noting [...]
Having being linked to bladder cancer, the widely used diabetic drug Actos has been pulled from the French and German markets. However, it is not only Actos that has been pulled out. The French Medicines Agency pulled the pill Competact as well. The latter is a drug that is created through the combination of both [...]
Selecta Biosciences, which is the creation of MIT’s prolific Bob Langer, is collaborating with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to create a synthetic nano-particle vaccine program that will help treat and even prevent the development of Type 1 diabetes. While it is widely accepted that there are more people suffering from Type 2 diabetes than [...]
