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Cheap Fructose May Exact High Metabolic Price

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Fructose in sodas and other beverages -- but not glucose -- can set patients on the fast track to atherosclerosis, investigators here reported.

Patients Beat Physicians at Insulin Dose Adjustment

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Type 2 diabetes patients taught to titrate their own insulin detemir (Levemir) dose may equal or exceed the results that physicians achieve, researchers reported.

Blood Glucose Monitoring for Non-Insulin Users Shows No Benefits

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Regular self-monitoring of blood glucose, at least by people with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin injections, did not result in a clinically significant reduction in blood glucose control in a year-long study.

Fetus At Risk At Lower Levels of Maternal Blood Glucose Than Thought

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

New Findings Likely to Lead to More Diagnoses of Gestational Diabetes.

First Use of Cord Blood to Alter Course of Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Yields Insights for Developing Future Cocktail to Treat the Disease.
Transfusion of the person's own cord blood into newly diagnosed Type 1's, reduced the severity of their diabetes.

Prevalence of Diabetes Rose 5% Annually Since 1990

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

CDC statistics highlight need for improved prevention efforts.

Risk of Subsequent Hypoglycemia is Low When Diabetes Treatment is Intensified

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Clinicians should not be afraid of intensifying treatment in diabetic patients with inadequately controlled glucose levels because the subsequent risk of developing hypoglycemia is quite low, a new study has shown.

Diabetes Reduces Life Expectancy by 8 Years

Posted: Friday, June 22, 2007

Before heart disease even develops among patients with heart disease, the effects on life expectancy have already begun, found researchers.

Pramlintide Curbs Fast Food Consumption and Binge Eating

Posted: Friday, June 22, 2007

The synthetic form of a hormone previously found to produce a feeling of fullness when eating and reduce body weight, also may help curb binge eating and the desire to eat high-fat foods and sweets.

Drug Prevents Diabetes and Heart Disease

Posted: Friday, June 22, 2007

An experimental drug prevented mice from developing diabetes and heart disease and might one day be used to stave off the diseases in humans, U.S. researchers said last week.