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Risk of Diabetes Reduced by 58% With Active Counseling and Continues After Counseling Stops

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, even after three plus years.

Obese Kidney Transplant Patients Twice As Likely To Die In The First Year

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Six per cent of patients with a BMI of more than 30 died in the first year after transplant, compared with three per cent of patients with a BMI of less than 30.

Panic Attacks Exacerbate Diabetes Symptoms

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Repeated panic attacks in people with diabetes can lead to poorer control of the illness, more severe health complications, and a reduced quality of life.

Diabetes Set to Wipe Out Whole Ethnic Populations by End of Century

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

With one in two having diabetes, it could wipe out Maori and Polynesian Islanders by the end of the century, according to an international expert in the disease.

Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Treated with Malaria Drug

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Studies of a rare genetic condition that increases cancer risk have unveiled a potential treatment for metabolic syndrome, and diabetes disorders that afflicts as many as one in every four American adults and puts them at sharply increased risk cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes.

Rimonabant (Accomplia) to Treat Obesity and Improve Glycemic Control Approved in Mexico

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Accomplia is now approved in Europe and Mexico, US next?

Herbal Medicine Silymarin May Help Sugar-Control in People with Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Diabetes is a growing health problem. Giving antioxidants is recognised as one way of helping people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels.

Three Years Later, Participants in the Diabetes Prevention Study Still Benefiting

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, a new follow-up of the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study shows.

More Treatment Options for Diabetes Means Few Excuses for High Blood Sugar

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

A generation ago, there was just one kind of pill that could help people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels down. But today, so many new options are available that it's almost dizzying. Advertisements for the new medicines seem to be everywhere, and more new medicines are on the way.

Patients Miscode Monitors 16% of the Time Causing Faulty Readings

Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

When persons with diabetes use miscoded blood glucose meters to determine how much insulin to take, significant errors in insulin dose can result that may potentially lead to short- and long-term health complications.