Diabetes News Archive

Avandia, a drug often prescribed to patients with diabetes, may have caused millions of heart attacks around the world. This is the conclusion of a 334-page report submitted by the U.S. Senate on Saturday.

In 2007, a Cleveland Clinic cardiologist recorded a meeting with four executives of GlaxoSmithKline to warn them that the diabetes drug Avandia raised the risk of heart attacks.

In July, the agency is expected to review the safety of the GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia, a diabetes drug dogged by cardiovascular risks. A Senate Finance Committee report that was just released resurrected questions about the medicine.

Women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, may increase their risk of developing diabetes later in their pregnancy, according to a study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research that appears online in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

A Senate report said Saturday that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes medication, years before such evidence became public.

MONDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Excessive weight gain during pregnancy, especially the first trimester, may increase a woman's risk of gestational diabetes, say U.S. researchers.

Carla, who has diabetes, was at a friend's birthday celebration. When she was offered cake, she politely declined. She didn't even want to risk one bite. The buttercream frosting looked delicious, but Carla fretted that it would wreak havoc on her blood sugar.

A nutritious, balanced diet is key for managing diabetes well. These tips can help you keep your blood sugar in check and appetite satisfied.

The movement of genes through families will be the focus of a free presentation on diabetes tonight at Baptist Rehabilitation - Germantown, 2100 Exeter Road in Germantown."The Heredity Project: A Practical Approach to Understanding Why Diabetes Runs in Families"" will be presented 7 to 8 p.m. The program will be led by Dr. Vicki M. Park, associate professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine ...

DIABETES Victoria will hit the streets of Brimbank in an attempt to educate residents in the state's worst area for the illness.

India has set up a six-member committee of experts on the advice of the country's Drug Technical Advisory Board which will decide whether diabetes drug Rosiglitazone will be banned from being sold and used in India.

Tri-Cities Senator Jerome Delvin hosted the10th annual Diabetes Day in Olympia Monday.

Sen. Jerome Delvin, R-Richland, has assembled a bipartisan "Diabetes Caucus" of lawmakers

Diabetes Forecast on What's Known About Weight-Loss Surgery -- and What Is Not

ALEXANDRIA, VA--(Marketwire - 02/22/10) - More and more reports have been surfacing about weight-loss surgery "curing" type 2 diabetes. At the same time, more and more questions are being asked about this process, how it works, who it works for and how long it may continue to work. While research and studies that will lead to definitive answers may take years, the March issue of Diabetes ...

The Department of Health has released its 'Six Years On: Delivering the Diabetes National Service Framework' report, which updates on the progress made since the National Service Framework (NSF) for Diabetes was developed in 2001, setting out national standards of care for people with diabetes...

New Delhi, Feb 22 : Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be presented with a diabetes tracking van, called 'Amitabh', by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event in London.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be presented with a diabetes tracking van, called 'Amitabh', by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event in London.

NEW YORK -- A Senate report said Saturday that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes medication, years before such evidence became public.

The diabetes drug Avandia caused 83,000 heart attacks between 1999 and 2007, the FDA says.

A report to the United States senate contains a leaked memo which estimates there are more than 500 heart attacks per month among American users of the diabetes type 2 drug, Avandia.

US senators have linked a diabetes drug to heart disease and death.

London, Feb 22 : US senators have linked a diabetes drug to heart disease and death.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have two children, ages 13 and 6. Our older son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last year. Because of this, we must carefully watch everything he eats. We're struggling to deal with it, but lately we have other issues we need help with.

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. Studies on whether obesity raises the odds of birth anomalies such as spina bifida, cleft palate and heart defects have so far come to conflicting conclusions. One question is whether obesity, per se, is the ...

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) No one doubts that quitting smoking is one of the best ways to improve your health. But a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that, in the short term, tossing the cigarettes might actually increase the risk of developing diabetes.

More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group they are at greater risk of certain kinds of birth defects and being low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life.

A Senate report said that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes medication, years before such evidence became public.

D EAR ABBY: My husband and I have two children, ages 13 and 6. Our older son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last year. Because of this, we must carefully watch everything he eats. We're struggling to deal with it, but lately we have other issues we need help with. We were out one evening, and our younger son wanted ice cream. My husband told him he couldn't have any because it would be ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have two children, ages 13 and 6. Our older son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last year. Because of this, we must carefully watch everything he eats. We're struggling to deal with it, but lately we have other issues we need help with.

A new diabetes centre is aiming to tackle the worryingly high number of cases in the South Asian community.

STRESS raises the risk of mental decline in older people with diabetes according to a team of Scots scientists.