The 2003 mouse experiment suggestive of a cure for type 1 diabetes has been facing controversy all these days. Researchers attempting to reproduce it found evidence that the experimental procedure does eliminate diabetic symptoms in a small fraction of...
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The first Seattle-Sweden Childhood Diabetes Awareness Day in Seattle, Washington will be held on April 1. The event is being organized by Professor ke Lernmark who works at the University of Washington and the Consulate General of Sweden in...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had accepted the oral therapy Galvus of Novartis for people with Type 2 diabetes for standard review, the Swiss drug firm said on Thursday. That Galvus was on track for approval in Europe to be completed later in...
Diabetes can lead to lower limb amputations because of damage to the nerves and blood vessels that serve the limbs. But this amputation is actually 'unnecessary' as too few were getting the right foot care, a study by Wolverhampton-based researchers...
More driving restrictions mean more tensions, and hence more increasing risk of diabetes! So, the Department of Transport is to consider easing driving restrictions on people with type 2 diabetes - as Government scientists found some people with...
DexCom Inc. is a maker of diabetes monitors. And the Food and Drug Administration approved its STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System recently. In pre-market activity, shares of DexCom rose $1.79, or 9 percent to $21.60 above the company's 52-week...
The same factors that lead to diabetes may also increase a person's risk of pancreatic cancer, research suggests. Do you know, high insulin levels and increased resistance to the hormone were associated with a higher cancer risk? This is found by the US...
Is your child in line to develop diabetes? How will you know that? Doctors may be able to use a new method to predict whether children are in line to develop diabetes, a new report reveals.
"Abdominal obesity is a health risk even though the BMI may...
Veterans are more likely than the general population to have diabetes, one of the major complications associated with being overweight, research has shown. To help address the increasingly alarming issues of obesity and deadly diabetes among America's...
Here is alerting information for women. Are you suffering form diabetes? Then you are five times more at risk of cardiovascular disease compared to women without it! Diabetes education specialists at the Colorado Department of Public Health and...
Ontario has increased its health-care spending budget by $1.9-billion. And it will become the first province in Canada to fund insulin pumps for children with diabetes as part of budget.
Some 6,500 children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes will be...
If researchers squelch an immune system attack that is causing the disease, severely diabetic mice can recover on their own -- three groups of scientists report today. This discovery was first published in 2001 raising the hopes of people with Type 1...
Latino women with prior pregnancy-related or "gestational" diabetes are risking diabetes.And the reason is the contraception with depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, which is associated with an increase in the risk of the diabetes.
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Most of the mother-to-be and new mothers know that breast-feeding is healthy for your baby. But, do you know it is of great help to the mother as well?! It has been found that breastfeeding a child for one year may reduce a woman's risk of developing...
China might have just beaten India to becoming the `Diabetes Capital of the World!' Fresh estimates put the number of diabetics in the world's most populous nation at over 30 million!
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is examining data that may put...
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