Diabetes News Archive

Diabetes is the name given to disorders in which the body has trouble regulating its blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Three generations of a Clarks Grove family teamed up to do what they can to help find a cure for juvenile diabetes.

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.

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.

Diabetes is a growing epidemic in the United States. An estimated 14.6 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes, and another 6.2 million people are unaware that they even have the disease, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Eating just one serving of green leafy vegetables or three servings of fruit a day reduces the risk of developing Type II diabetes, say researchers at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. The research team also found that one serving of fruit juice a day increased the risk of Type II diabetes in women. Tulane epidemiologist Dr.

For decades, scientists have studied nuclear hormone receptors to gain a better understanding of how they turn genes on and off throughout the body and how they function as key drug targets for a number of diseases, such as diabetes, breast cancer, osteoporosis and high cholesterol.

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

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. Drs.

BROUSSARD - Students at St. Cecilia School put their best foot forward on Friday, flocking to the school gymnasium to take part in the annual School Walk for Diabetes.

Yet it might take an emergency for parents to recognize symptoms. It took a stint in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for Taelem Rodriguez's parents to learn that he had Type I diabetes.

In a decision with potential implications for the nation's 24 million diabetics, a federal appeals-court panel ruled Friday that a Type 2 diabetes patient was entitled to the protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

- In a decision with potential implications for the nation's 24 million diabetics, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that a Type-2 diabetes patient was entitled to the protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

A health lecture, "There is More to Diabetes Than You can Imagine!" with Linda Basile, RN and certified diabetes educator, will be presented March 4 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Community Hospital of Long Beach.

Community Mercy Health Partners has been awarded a $25,000 grant to address diabetes in Clark and Champaign counties.

The American Diabetes Association applauds the U.S. Congress for passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This Act includes many vital investments in our economy that will provide essential economic stimulus while benefiting the health and well-being of people with chronic illnesses like diabetes. Funding in this act will help address the staggering $174 billion that diabetes ...

ELGIN - Sherman Health hosts a Heart and Diabetes Fair 9 a.m. to noon today at Sherman Hospital, 934 Center St., Elgin.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision with potential implications for the nation's 24 million diabetics, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that a Type-2 diabetes patient was entitled to the protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision with potential implications for the nation's 24 million diabetics, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that a Type-2 diabetes patient was entitled to the protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act.