Diabetes News Archive

Through conferences and health fairs held in cities across the nation, TCOYD annually brings thousands of people with diabetes, those at risk and their loved ones into contact with national and local medical professionals and others with expertise related to living with the disease for a day of highly informative and motivational programs.

Its hard to believe that at one time in their very young lives Amanda Minutolo, Mackenzie Jennings and Autumn Barnett were shocked and scared when they each were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

The promise of a better life seems to have come with a heavy price with mass migration in India seen to be fuelling the countrys diabetes epidemic.

Area residents will have the chance to lace up their tennis shoes and walk for a good cause. Foxfire High School is sponsoring the third annual Walk for Diabetes.

Every 24 hours in the United States 3,600 cases of diabetes are diagnosed,  614 people die, 225 amputations occur and 120 kidneys fail from diabetes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These numbers are frightening to the 21 million Americans who have this disease.

Reuters: "The controversy surrounding a GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes drug points to a need for changes in the way the U.S. Food and Drug Administration handles safety issues, agency critics told lawmakers on Wednesday. The FDA is taking a new look at the safety of Glaxo's Avandia pill, which carries a warning about heart risks. The manufacturer says the drug is safe and effective, and the FDA is ...

SAN DIEGO The woman in charge of putting diabetes research into practice, for the Centers for Disease Control, spoke of the global epidemic of diabetes during a San Diego symposium Thursday.

( Scripps Research Institute ) The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a $1.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to develop a series of tests at its Florida campus to help explore the potential of a protein that has emerged as a highly attractive target for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

New research claims that women with Type 2 diabetes have up to a 25 per cent higher risk of developing cancer than women without diabetes, but men with the condition appear to be at no greater risk. The study, from Tel Aviv University Medical School, monitored 17,000 people with Type 2 diabetes. It also found that men with the condition were less likely than men without it to develop prostate ...

Are you a person with Type 2 diabetes or a healthcare professional? If so, Diabetes UK would like you to fill in a quick and easy online survey about hypoglycaemia or 'hypos'. Hosted by Diabetes UK, the Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca Survey seeks to understand more about the experiences of hypos among people with Type 2 diabetes, as a follow-up to a similar survey last year. Take the ...

Labour's Copeland candidate Jamie Reed has been diagnosed with type-1 diabetes.

LABOURS Copeland candidate Jamie Reed has been diagnosed with type-1 diabetes.

Reuters: "The controversy surrounding a GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes drug points to a need for changes in the way the U.S. Food and Drug Administration handles safety issues, agency critics told lawmakers on Wednesday.