Diabetes News Archive

Mount Sinai School of Medicine Division of Endocrinology's Diabetes Center has been awarded Education Recognition from the American Diabetes Association (ADA), for its Diabetes Self-Management Education Program.

The Center for Diabetes Research of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has launched a new website to provide an overview of more than $23 million in diabetes-related studies now under way. The breadth of active research - outlined at http://www1.wfubmc.edu/DiabetesResearch/ -- places the institution on the front lines of research centers racing to solve what has emerged as this ...

The director of the Center for Diabetes Research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is available to talk about the leading edge of multidisciplinary research to overcome diabetes mellitus -- the pandemic of this millennium. Wake Forest Baptist researchers are studying genetics of diabetes, diabetes in minority populations, diabetes and aging, childhood obesity and diabetes ...

There is another tool to manage diabetes and fight obesity--the Internet, specifically, an online, university-based program on obesity and physical activity that can apply to diabetes education. The University of Houston department of health and human performance developed Public Health Issues in Physical Activity and Obesity (Kinesiology 1304) because of the prevalence of obesity and physical ...

American Diabetes Association urges the nearly 60 million Americans who are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes to take the Diabetes Risk Test.

Researchers at Tulane University are participating in the National Children's Study to investigate factors influencing the development of such conditions as diabetes, obesity, autism, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, birth defects and asthma.

Tracy L. Breen, MD, Clinical Director of the Mount Sinai Diabetes Program, says that even though diabetes is a major health issue in the United States preventing and managing diabetes is completely within your control.

With diabetes a national epidemic and the prevalence of the disease as high as 18 percent in the South Bronx, a unique physician "pay-for-performance" program at Montefiore Medical Center has reduced blood sugar and cholesterol levels significantly among many of this borough's diabetes population.

Taking clues from their stem cell research, investigators at the University of California San Diego and Burnham Institute for Medical Research have discovered that a signaling pathway involved in normal pancreatic development is also associated with type 2 diabetes.

Eating just one serving of green leafy vegetables or three servings of fruit a day reduces the risk of developing Type II diabetes, while one serving of fruit juice a day may increase the risk of Type II diabetes in women.

Rising global rates of obesity, a major risk factor for diabetes as well as cardiovascular disease, cancer and other diseases, highlight the urgent need for governments and health organizations to develop programs targeting healthy weights.

Proper diet is the first and most important step in managing gestational diabetes, which can pose serious health risks for both mom and baby.

Diabetic patients are less likely to suffer from acute respiratory failure during severe sepsis. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care studied 930 million hospitalisations over a 25-year period to investigate the protective effect, adding to our knowledge of both diabetes and sepsis.

BENTONVILLE - Whitney Abbett, an employee at Boston's Restaurant and Sports Bar here, said customers seem to be enjoying heart-shaped pizzas while they support the restaurant's new nonprofit partner, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. From the sale of each pie, $1 is donated to the JDRF. (Benton County Daily Record)

The Cypher Select Plus Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent has received CE marking within the European Union (EU) for treatment of patients with diabetes, a complex and often difficult-to-treat patient population.

Ohio University's Appalachian Rural Health Institute (ARHI) will sponsor a free day-long workshop March 18 focusing on diabetes education, prevention and self-management in Appalachia, a region hit especially hard by the deadly disease.

Washington, February 13 : A group of stem cell researchers from the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) and Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that type 2 diabetes is associated with a signalling pathway that is involved in normal pancreatic development.

Barry Gibb, one of the surviving Bee Gees, will make a rare solo concert appearance on Valentine's Day at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood to benefit the University of Miami' Diabetes Research Institute.

Aaahhh the day of "sweets for your Sweetie"...well, maybe not so much. "With an estimated 24 million Type 1 and Type 2 people coping with diabetes and 57 million Pre-diabetics in the U.S. the odds of someone in your family being affected by diabetes is about 1 in 3.7. That would be that 'epidemic' diabetes thing you keep hearing about in the news." So says Bob Hawkinson, author, and lifelong ...

When doctors need to administer an early-detection diabetes test, they have only a few options.

COLUMBIA - Almost six million people in the U.S. have undiagnosed diabetes, and an MU researcher has created a tool that could lower that number. Richelle Koopman, assistant professor of family and community medicine in the MU School of Medicine, developed TAG-IT, a test that analyzes six factors to determine how likely a person is to be diabetic or pre-diabetic. The six factors are age, ...

COLUMBIA - Almost six million people in the U.S. have undiagnosed diabetes, and an MU researcher has created a tool that could lower that number. Richelle Koopman, assistant professor of family and community medicine in the MU School of Medicine, developed TAG-IT, a test that analyzes six factors to determine how likely a person is to be diabetic or pre-diabetic. The six factors are age, sex, ...

Diabetic patients are less likely to suffer from acute respiratory failure during severe sepsis. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care studied 930 million hospitalizations over a 25-year period to investigate the protective effect, adding to our knowledge of both diabetes and sepsis.