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Mediterranean Diet Delays Need for Drugs in Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, September 09, 2009

The Mediterranean diet, long touted as a healthy eating plan, may help people with Type 2 diabetes stay off blood sugar-lowering medications, as well as help them lose weight and lower cardiovascular risk factors.

Patch 'Shots' to Replace Injections

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

A skin patch lined with "microneedles" may someday offer a painless alternative to hypodermic needles, according to scientists working on the concept.

The Most Effective Therapy for Diabetes Induced Alzheimer's

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

"Exercise is the most potent insulin-sensitizing agent we have," said Dr. Suzanne Craft, a geriatrician and Alzheimer’s researcher at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington.

New Recommendations for Intake of Sugars by AHA

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

New recommendations for maximum dietary intake of "added sugars," released by the American Heart Association, are probably far more healthful than the much-higher current average intake in the U.S.. But without educating the patient, it will have little or no effect.

Medium to Vigorous Exercise Improves Cardiac Function in Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2009

While an exercise program generally leads to improvements in metabolic function in patients with Type 2 diabetes, it only improves myocardial function when activity is at least moderate to vigorous, according to a new study.

Glucose Intolerance Reversed by Carnitine Supplements

Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Supplementing with the nutrient carnitine helps obese animals to clear the extra sugar in their blood, something they had trouble doing on their own, researchers at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, report.

New Review Endorses CV Benefits of Fish Oil

Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

A new review concludes that there is extensive evidence from three decades of research that fish oils, or more specifically the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) contained in them, are beneficial for everyone and that it can reduce the risk for total mortality, sudden death, CHD mortality, and cardiovascular mortality by as much as 30%.

Computer Determines When to Start Diabetes Patients on Statins

Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Mayo Clinic have developed a computer model that medical doctors can use to determine the best time to begin using statin therapy in diabetes patients to help prevent heart disease and stroke.

Drug Helps Diabetics Heal Stubborn Wounds

Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A drug used to remove iron from the body could help doctors fight one of diabetes' cruelest complications -- poor wound healing -- which can lead to infection and amputation.

Food Additive May Help Control Blood Lipids and Reduce Disease Risk

Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Scientists have identified a substance in the liver that helps process fat and glucose.