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Researchers Find that Dolphins Use Diabetes-Like State to Control Blood Sugar

Dolphins are the only animals apart from humans to develop a natural form of type 2 diabetes, according to new research. The discovery offers important insights into a disease that is linked to one in 20 deaths.

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Dolphins develop a form of type 2 diabetes, the only animal other than humans to do so, although dolphins can turn it on and off, researchers say.

The head of the world's richest stem cell research fund says he expects to see a cure for diabetes in little more than a decade.

ITASCA, IL - Emkay received the 2009 Ron Santo Walk Cure to Diabetes Corporate Team Cup for the most raised funding in the Chicago-based Busse Woods walk from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Dolphins can actually "turn on" diabetes and turn it off again depending upon whether there's a lot of food available to them or very little, according to new research.

While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows that diabetes may at least partly account for the link.

WPBF 25 News' Nathalie Pozo sat down with NBA Hall of Fame player Earl Monroe, who has Type 2 diabetes, for a special "Out to Lunch" segment.

Dolphins could hold the key to curing diabetes, scientists say. Researchers have discovered that the friendly sea mammals have a form of adult onset diabetes - but have evolved the ability to turn the condition on and off.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Dolphins can induce diabetes when food is scarce and turn it off when food is abundant, said California scientists looking for a cure for humans.

The eighth annual memorial snowmobile ride is a fundraiser event to raise awareness for diabetes. The ride is in honor of Mark Prebeg, who passed away from diabetes-related complications.

Dolphins have a unique ability to control diabetes, according to scientists, who suggest that the discovery could have implications for a human cure for the condition.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) The Wyoming Department of Health reports that the number of Wyoming adults with diabetes more than doubled in the past 13 years. The department said Thursday that more than 7 percent of Wyoming adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, up from 3 percent in 1997.

Cooking classes, health tests and diabetes information offered at convention center tomorrow.

In the not-too-distant future we could see diabetes, the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., treated with a vaccine. Several vaccine candidates are in the pipeline, creating a possible $2.4 billion market for diabetes vaccine products by 2020, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information, who recently published a survey of emerging vaccine products titled: "What ...

Associated Press - February 19, 2010 7:15 AM ET CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Department of Health reports that the number of Wyoming adults with diabetes more than doubled in the past 13...

Scientists have discovered that dolphins have the unique ability to turn off and on diabetes.

A study in dolphins has revealed genetic clues that could help medical researchers to treat type 2 diabetes.

Dolphins have the unique ability to turn off and on diabetes, scientists have discovered, in a breakthrough that could lead to a treatment and cure for the disease in humans.

19 February 2010 AMMAN - Jordan had the ninth-highest prevalence of diabetes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region last year, according to an international report.

WARWICK - The Diabetes Center at St. Anthony Community Hospital will host "In Whose Two Shoes,"" an interactive diabetes education session for youth with type 1 diabetes and their parents, on Saturday, Feb. 27.

Today the National Business Coalition on Health issued its annual report on how America's health plans are doing to improve care and control costs for diabetes. The analysis is based on health plan survey data from NBCH's eValue8™ program, the nation's leading Request for Information (RFI) tool used by employers, coalitions and their purchaser members to set expectations and measure health plan ...

A Stratton Spotlight article recently highlighted a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey that showed a dramatic rise in the number of diabetes cases during the last 10 years and noted that pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are working on nearly 200 new medicines to treat this debilitating disease.

Obesity among adults is continuing to rise, implying worrisome increases in conditions like heart disease and cancer by 2020 and 98 percent rise in type-2 diabetes by 2050, says a new study.

London, Feb 19 (IANS) Obesity among adults is continuing to rise, implying worrisome increases in conditions like heart disease and cancer by 2020 and 98 percent rise in type-2 diabetes by 2050, says a new study.

The new Niagara Diabetes Centre at Welland County General Hospital is a busy place. The team of registered nurses, dieticians, administrators and doctors on the job there answer more than 700 calls a day from patients suffering from diabetes.

London, Feb 19 : Obesity among adults is continuing to rise, implying worrisome increases in conditions like heart disease and cancer by 2020 and 98 percent rise in type-2 diabetes by 2050, says a new study.

The drug avosentan substantially reduces urinary protein loss in people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, but the drug causes serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).

VIRGINIA - The nationwide diabetes epidemic could virtually be eliminated with lifestyle changes, Dr. Robert Sjoberg told a packed auditorium at the Virginia Regional Medical Center Tuesday afternoon.

Type 1 diabetes, the kind children get, is a frightening diagnosis for any parent, with the threat that an undetected drop in blood sugar could cause a seizure or even...

A trick dolphins use to keep their big brains fed with energy could potentially lead to a cure for adult diabetes, according to scientists in the United States.