Diabetes News Archive

Transplanting cells that replenish blood vessels can also restore nerve function in an animal model of diabetic neuropathy, Emory researchers have found. The results are described online this week in the journal Circulation. The majority of people with diabetes have some form of neuropathy--damage to the peripheral nerves that can cause a loss of sensation in hands, arms, feet or legs.

Chinese police detained two people Thursday accused of distributing a doctored diabetes drug linked to two deaths in the country's far west,

Many people with diabetes have damage to the nerves. Cells derived from the bone marrow can both promote the regrowth of blood vessels and prevent the ongoing loss (or death) of the protective lining of nerves in the limbs of diabetic animals. The bone marrow cells appear to home to peripheral nerves and remain engrafted for weeks.

Two people have been detained in Liaoning Province in connection with the sale of a fake diabetes drug that killed two patients and left nine others in the hospital, provincial authorities said Thursday. Chinese police earlier said that five other suspects had been arrested in Xinjiang in connection with the case, and an arrest warrant had also been issued for the prime suspect. The drug, sold ...

The idea is to teach the immune system of children at high risk for type 1 diabetes not to attack the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. "We want to create a no-go zone," said Dr. Andrew Mellor, immunologist who directs the Medical College of Georgia Immunotherapy Center.

Dr. Margaret Gatz recently documented an unsettling connection between midlife diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. How might they be related? And what can patients do?

Team Type 1 Expands Its Roster, Fielding Five Teams to Spread Personal Messages of Successful Diabetes Management to People Living with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

BEIJING, Feb 5 - A diabetes drug linked to two deaths in far western China has been found on store shelves in two other provinces, though no new illnesses have been reported, state media said today. The medicine, called "Tang Zhi Ning Jiao Nang," contained six times the normal amount of a chemical ingredient used to lower blood sugar, and is believed to have been distributed at many places ...

What's the most common long-term complication of diabetes? Problems with the heart and blood vessels, according to the February issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource. Cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke, account for 65 percent of all diabetes-related deaths.

Lagos - Following the report by some national dailies yesterday, claiming that a Nigerian Scientist, Dr Louis Obyo Nelson, has discovered a cure for Diabetes Mellitus, said to be number six killer disease in the world, Pharmaceutical society of Nigeria (PSN) yesterday, expressed reservations abou 4 the claim.

BEIJING, February 5 (RIA Novosti) - The Chinese security agency on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a man suspected of masterminding the sale of fake diabetes drugs that killed two people and poisoned several others, Xinhua said.

China's Ministry of Public Security(MPS) Thursday issued an order to arrest the main suspect involved in the sale of a fake diabetes drug that last month killed two patients and hospitalized nine others in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Li Dong, the main suspect at large, was born in 1970 in the northeastern Liaoning Province. He is believed to have sold the fake drug to many ...

BEIJING - A diabetes drug linked to two deaths in far western China has been found on store shelves in two other provinces, though no new illnesses have been reported, state media said Thursday.

Dr. Margaret Gatz recently documented an unsettling connection between mid-life diabetes and Alzheimer?s disease. How might they be related? And what can patients do?

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Fake diabetes medication linked to two deaths in China last month has been found in Sichuan province, the provincial drug regulator said, as police issued an arrest warrant for the main suspect in the counterfeiting case.

Following the report by some national dailies yesterday, claiming that a Nigerian Scientist, Dr Louis Obyo Nelson, has discovered a cure for Diabetes Mellitus, said to be number six killer disease in the world, Pharmaceutical society of Nigeria (PSN) yesterday, expressed reservations abou 4 the claim.

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Fake diabetes medication linked to two deaths last month has been found in China's Sichuan province, the provincial drug regulator said.

The health authorities in southwest China's Sichuan Province have found 215 bottles of a counterfeit diabetes drug that last month caused two deaths and hospitalized nine others in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. No one has been reported sick after taking the drug so far, said a spokesman of the provincial food and drug safety bureau on Wednesday. The spokesman said 144 bottles ...

The health authorities in southwest China's Sichuan Province have found 215 bottles of a counterfeit diabetes drug that last month caused two deaths and hospitalized nine others in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

CHENGDU -- The health authorities in southwest China's Sichuan Province have found 215 bottles of a counterfeit diabetes drug that last month caused two deaths and hospitalized nine others in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Source: Reuters BEIJING, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have found more than 5,000 bottles of fake diabetes medication in two provinces that last month were blamed for the deaths of two patients, state media ...

Chinese authorities have found more than 5,000 bottles of fake diabetes medication in two provinces that last month were blamed for the deaths of two patients, state media said on Thursday.

Chinese authorities have found more than 5,000 bottles of fake diabetes medication in two provinces that last month were blamed for the deaths of two patients, state media said on Thursday.