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ANNUAL GLOBAL SALES OF DIABETES TREATMENTS: YEAR TOTAL SALES CHANGE FROM PRIOR YEAR 2004 $16.79 billion up 9.9 percent

Diabetes used to be a death sentence. Now, modern medicine makes living with diabetes a little less scary, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

They also have increased risk of deathA new study in the journal Respirology reveals that patients with diabetes who are hospitalized with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience longer time in the hospital and are also at an increased risk of death, compared to those without diabetes.High blood sugar may cause more severe infections due to impairment of ...

JAMA. 2010;303(24):2529-2530. Diabetes and Ocular Disease is one of a series of monographs published by Oxford University Press in cooperation with the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Currently there are 18 monographs in the series, this being the 14th.

Adults with newly diagnosed diabetes are at higher long-term risk of serious liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver failure, according to a research article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj092144.pdf.The negative impact of diabetes on the eye, kidney and blood vessels is well-known ...

Harry Smith spoke with CVS Caremark's Dr. Andrew J. Sussman about the increased prevalence of Diabetes.

Alex Olivastri had his family behind him Saturday when he walked to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The 16-year-old Chatham teen participated in the TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes, which is the biggest fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). More [...]

A new study in the journal Respirology reveals that patients with diabetes who are hospitalized with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience longer time in the hospital and are also at an increased risk of death, compared to those without diabetes.

Medicare patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease can significantly reduce both the cost of their medical care and rates of hospitalization by participating in a telephone-based diabetes disease management program, a new study finds. The authors will present their results Monday at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego. The disease management program took place in one ...

A new survey shows that diabetic individuals who live in a hot climate have important gaps in their "heat awareness," or knowledge about proper diabetes self-care in hot weather, even though diabetes raises their risk of heat illness. The results of "Diabetes in the Desert: What Do Patients Know About the Heat?" will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego ...

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in patients with Type 2 diabetes and may be associated with poor blood sugar control, according to a new study. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego. "This finding supports an active role of vitamin D in the development of Type 2 diabetes," said study co-author Esther Krug, MD, an assistant ...

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