Diabetes News Archive

KUALA LUMPUR: A Sessions Court here has granted Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee P. Uthayakumar's request to seek treatment for his diabetes. The court postponed his sedition trial to April 28, and set it to be heard for three days.

ELKHART -- Need some help dealing with diabetes, or just want to talk to others with it?

ST. JOSEPH -- A free program for anyone at risk of developing type 2 diabetes will be held from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Feb. 16 at Lakeland Center for Outpatient Services, 3900 Hollywood Road.

Researchers have found what appears to be a major culprit behind the loss of insulin-producing β cells from the pancreases of people with diabetes, a critical event in the progression of the disease.

Infants born with a rare form of inherited diabetes might avoid irreversible damage to their pancreases if they are treated immediately with sulfonylurea drugs rather than insulin, according to a new report in the February 4th issue of Cell Metabolism.

Researchers have found what appears to be a major culprit behind the loss of insulin-producing b cells from the pancreases of people with diabetes, a critical event in the progression of the disease.

Infants born with a rare form of inherited diabetes might avoid irreversible damage to their pancreases if they are treated immediately with sulfonylurea drugs rather than insulin, according to a new report in the Feb. 4 issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication.

Cells from the hippocampus treated with insulin and an anti-diabetes drug that promotes use of insulin became much less susceptible to damage from the amyloid beta plaques whose role is considered critical in development of Alzheimer's disease. Proper insulin regulation, in other words, keeps plaques from forming.

Researchers in 20 medical centers across the country are enrolling adults with type 2 diabetes who have poorly controlled blood glucose to participate in a clinical study, Targeting Inflammation with Salsalate in Type 2 Diabetes (TINSAL-T2D).

Results of a new Pan-European survey announced today have uncovered alarming new information regarding the eating habits of people with Type 2 diabetes. More than a third of UK respondents (35%) stated that rising food prices and the so called "credit crunch" had affected their ability to balance their diet and had caused them to eat less.

The First Baptist Church Health and Wellness Council will present its Third Annual Learn and Live Series at noon Friday in the fellowship hall on Hargrave Street. Dr. Tom Wall, cardiologist at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, will speak on "Let Me Tell You About Diabetes" and its effect on the heart, arteries and kidneys.

Hopes were raised that diabetes drugs could be developed as treatments for Alzheimer's disease after scientists demonstrated the beneficial effect of insulin on the brain.

The most common form of dementia may be closely related to another common disease of old-age - type II diabetes, say scientists.

Results of a new Pan-European survey announced today have uncovered alarming new information regarding the eating habits of people with Type 2 diabetes. More than a third of the sample surveyed stated that rising food prices and the so called "credit crunch" had affected their ability to balance their diet and had caused them to eat less.

Chinese drug watchdogs said on Monday that it has reclaimed and sealed up a total of 9,391 bottles of counterfeit diabetes drugs that caused two deaths in the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Immune cells that secrete the soluble molecule IL-17 (so called Th17 cells) have been implicated as central to several autoimmune diseases. However, whether they contribute to the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, which is commonly linked to immune cells that secrete the soluble molecule IFN-gamma (so called Th1 cells), has not been clearly determined.

Hopes have been raised that diabetes drugs could be developed as treatments for Alzheimer's disease after scientists demonstrated the beneficial effect of insulin on the brain.