Diabetes News Archive

The Diabetes Support Group at Coastal Carolina Hospital will meet from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in R

A free lunch and expert advice on living with diabetes will be offered by the Monterey Care Center, 3929 Hoover Road, at 11:30 a.m. March 5.

A Manhattan doctor thinks he may have found a surgical cure for Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Francesco Rubino will soon begin a surgical trial with overweight - but not obese - diabetes patients.

Thermal imaging is a classical way of diagnosing and studying the implications of diabetes in respect of healing of wounds, blood flow to outer limbs and other vital organs, a top nuclear scientist said here Wednesday.

Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, is now enrolling overweight and mildly obese patients -- those with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 to 35 -- in a study of gastric bypass surgery aimed at reversing Type 2 diabetes. Because of their non-morbidly obese status, these patients do not qualify for the surgery ...

UTICA, Februar 24, 2010 -- On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare's (FSLH) Central New York (CNY) Diabetes Education Program will hold a free adult support group titled "Optimizing Control with Your Insulin Pump.""

Approximately 57 million Americans are on the brink of diabetes. Yet research tells us that there is much we can do to keep it from progressing to full-blown diabetes. Lab tests can help us get a grip on the disease, says the American Clinical Laboratory Association President Alan Mertz. "Ask your doctor about a quick and easy lab test called hemoglobin A1C (A1C). The test can tell you if you ...

DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Diabetes Market in UAE" report to their offering.

SysKid, a large-scale integrating European research project, aims at understanding chronic kidney disease in the context of diabetes and hypertension. SysKid which stands for Systems Biology towards Novel Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Treatment will pave the way for progress in prevention, new diagnostic strategies and treatment options for declining kidney function, which affects ...

Warren Hospital Warren Hospital will present a special program on National Diabetes Alert Day 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 23 in the Greenwich ShopRite community room. The program, "Kicking the Sugar Habit,"" will be led by registered dietitian Kathy Decker, and,...

DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Cutting Edge Information's new report "Diabetes Market Forecast to 2015" to their offering.

A more manageable three to four cups a day was associated with a 13 percent reduction in diabetes risk, which consuming between eight and 11 cups was associated with a 22 percent risk reduction, according to findings of a study in a population with a high incidence and prevalence of diabetes.

Approximately 57 million Americans are on the brink of diabetes. Yet research tells us that there is much we can do to keep it from progressing to full-blown diabetes. Lab tests can help us get a grip on the disease, says the American Clinical Laboratory Association President Alan Mertz.

DOHA: The diabetes campaign focusing on workplaces being waged by the Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) has evoked a good response from companies, a senior QDA official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A new test can help people learn if they are at risk for diabetes, a U.S. non-profit group representing clinical laboratories said.

Some call it a miracle diabetes drug, while others call it nothing but bad medicine. Avandia is once again going under the microscope.