Diabetes News Archive

It would take me years to find a doctor I could trust and work with, and years to learn the right way to treat my diabetes and not give up on my dancing dream.

Finding out you have diabetes can be overwhelming. Blood sugar checks, taking insulin, a new diet. Luckily, you don't have to go at it alone. Enter the diabetes educator. A diabetes educator will help you make sense of your diagnosis, and get you on track to good blood sugar control.

From choosing the best blood glucose monitor to planning meals, your diabetes educator helps you manage the day-to-day aspects of your diabetes care.

EXETER - The Diabetes Education Centre at South Huron Hospital (SHH) is open Monday to Friday to offer education health promotion and prevention information to patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, or those with pre-diabetes.

ALEXANDRIA, VA--(Marketwire - January 20, 2010) - The American Diabetes Association , the nation's largest and leading voluntary health organization in the fight against diabetes, is pleased to announce the newest member of its Research Foundation Board of Directors for 2010 Kenneth Moritsugu, MD, MPH of Falls Church, Virginia. Moritsugu, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the current Chairman of ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA--(Marketwire - 01/20/10) - The American Diabetes Association , the nation's largest and leading voluntary health organization in the fight against diabetes, is pleased to announce the newest member of its Research Foundation Board of Directors for 2010 Kenneth Moritsugu, MD, MPH of Falls Church, Virginia. Moritsugu, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the current Chairman of the ...

Kolkata, Jan 20 : More than 60% percent of the Indian Urban public does not know that uncontrolled diabetes affects primary organs like heart, kidney and eyes, according to a survey conducted by market research firm IMRB and commissioned by world leader in diabetes care - Novo Nordisk .

Fast Forward, LLC, the commercial drug development arm of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the leader in research leading to a cure for type 1 diabetes in the world announced a collaborative partnership with Axxam SpA -- a leading company in conducting early-stage discovery research programs for the life science industry -- to develop ...

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals said Wednesday that a diabetes treatment under development improved blood-sugar levels in patients during a midstage study.

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental diabetes drug lowered blood glucose level of type 2 diabetes patients in a mid-stage trial, sending its shares up 24 percent in premarket trade.

The Atlantic DIP (Diabetes in Pregnancy) programme, a research programme focusing on maternal and infant outcome from pregnancies affected by pre gestational diabetes (type 1 and type 2) along the Irish Atlantic seaboard, is using the DIAMOND clinical information management system from Hicom for data collection. The Atlantic DIP programme also offers universal screening for gestational diabetes ...

CLEVELAND -- Thousands of people in Northeast Ohio suffer from type one diabetes. Regulating their blood sugar becomes a constant task. But thanks to fundraising efforts right here at home and around the country, researchers and scientists have started developing a piece of technology that will help keep millions of diabetes sufferers safe. It's an artificial pancreas.

CLEVELAND -- Thousands of people in Northeast Ohio suffer from type one diabetes.

More than 1 million California farmworkers face a higher risk of diabetes as well as respiratory diseases related to poor air quality, according to articles in the latest issue of California Agriculture. The journal is put out by the University of California.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced today an innovative program aimed at improving the treatment of type 1 diabetes by developing novel insulin delivery products to enhance the use of insulin pumps.

A Tai Chi-based exercise program is being hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against depression, diabetes and obesity.

With the government planning to introduce universal screening for diabetes in the country, the health ministry has launched steps to support development of low cost diabetes detection kits by the Indian companies to bring down the total cost of the programme.

MEXICO CITY - Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim pledged $65 million Tuesday for genetic research on cancer, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim pledged $65 million Tuesday for genetic research on cancer, type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.