Diabetes News Archive

A team of Northern Arizona University-led researchers is using nearly $1.3 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue with the world's longest-running study on obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes and heart disease have increased rapidly in the last decade, and are fueled by an epidemic of obesity. The Metabolic Syndrome is a group of disorders that occur at the same time and are linked to a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The Metabolic Syndrome is diagnosed when 3 of the [...]

FALLBROOK Free diabetes classes will be offered in Spanish and English at the education department classroom at the Wellness Center, 138 South Brandon, located on the 2nd floor. Both sessions are on Tuesday, Feb. 16, with the Spanish class from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and the English session at noon to 1:30 p.m. Individuals newly diagnosed with diabetes or those wanting a refresher are invited to ...

Unless you eat like a supermodel, you probably want to jettison some of the rich, abundant foods that you packed onto your frame between the Thanksgiving and New Years holidays.But individuals with diabetes and people diagnosed with pre-diabetes need to put together a smart eating and exercise plan in order to maintain good health while cutting back on the calories and moving back to their ...

The Government is handing biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies more than $4 million to boost its work on transplanting pig tissues into people with type-1 diabetes. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology...

The Government is handing biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies more than $4 million to boost its work on transplanting pig tissues into people with type-1 diabetes.

SPOKANE -- This Sunday is Valentine's Day, and with love in the air, one local restaurant has come up with a special way to show love to people with diabetes. Boston's Pizza and Sports Bar in Spokane Valley is selling heart shaped pizza Friday through Sunday. And, each time one is purchased a dollar is being donated to a research fund for curing diabetes, The Junior Diabetes Research ...

SPOKANE -- This Sunday is Valentine's Day, and with love in the air, one local restaurant has come up with a special way to show love to people with diabetes. Boston's Pizza and Sports Bar in Spokane Valley is selling heart shaped pizza Friday through Sunday. And, each time one is purchased a dollar is being donated to a research fund for curing diabetes, The Junior Diabetes Research ...

Dreamfields Pasta struck a chord with consumers by hosting a first-of-its-kind interactive diabetes webcast last month.

Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America's diabetes epidemic but are significantly less likely than whites to receive a commonly used test to monitor control of blood glucose, according to Washington State University researchers. In a commentary for the current issue of "The Diabetes Educator," Assistant Professor of Pharmacotherapy Joshua Jon Neumiller and ...

Diabetic retinopathy remains the major cause of blindness in adults under 60 in the U.S. The disease affects 5.3 million adults in the U.S. and some 24,000 of them go blind each year. Nearly sixty percent of all diabetes patients are expected to develop diabetic retinopathy within ten years of their diagnosis.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - February 12, 2010) - According to a new study by the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and just published in the February issue of Diabetes Care, eating 2 ounces of walnuts per day as part of a normal diet may improve cardiovascular health in people with type 2 diabetes.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - 02/12/10) - According to a new study by the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and just published in the February issue of Diabetes Care, eating 2 ounces of walnuts per day as part of a normal diet may improve cardiovascular health in people with type 2 diabetes. Prior studies have demonstrated the potential benefit of walnuts in promoting heart health in ...

A Henry Ford Hospital study finds women with type 2 diabetes who take a commonly prescribed class of medications to treat insulin resistance may be at a higher risk for developing bone fractures. After taking a thiazolidinedione (TZD) for one year, women are 50 percent more likely to have a bone fracture than patients not taking TZDs, according to study results. And those at the greatest risk ...

Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America's diabetes epidemic but are significantly less likely than whites to receive a commonly used test to monitor control of blood glucose, according to Washington State University researchers.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's first Sugar Ball is from 5:30 p.m. to midnight March 27 at the Fargo Holiday Inn.

Roche announced recently that results from the first five Phase III clinical trials show that taspoglutide has met the primary end-points of reduction in blood glucose (blood sugar) in these studies. Roche's taspoglutide, the first weekly human GLP-1 analogue in late stage development may improve treatment options for patients with type 2 diabetes.

Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America's diabetes epidemic but are significantly less likely than whites to receive a commonly used test to monitor control of blood glucose, according to Washington State University researchers.

A Montreal team's discovery of a rare gene mutation that causes neonatal diabetes is raising new hopes for a cure.