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New Treatment for Peripheral Arterial Disease

Posted: Thursday, April 07, 2005

Researchers hope that Implanting a drug-coated, flexible, metal-mesh tube called a drug-eluting stent into the superficial femoral artery of the thigh, that the drug coating will make it more likely to prevent the blockage from recurring, as compared with uncoated stents, which fail to do so in about one-quarter of the cases

Researchers Find Gene That Could Predict Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, April 07, 2005

Their findings indicated that a variation in the gene ENPP1 was as much as 13 percent more common in people with type 2 diabetes and those at greater risk for the disease. Researchers said these results suggest that the variant may serve as an important genetic marker in identifying people at risk for type 2 diabetes.

First UK Islet Transplant Successful

Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005

A multidisciplinary team at King's College Hospital has successfully achieved islet cell¹ transplantation in a Type 1² diabetes patient. This breakthrough has major implications for diabetes sufferers and has never before been achieved in the United Kingdom. The patient, a 61 year old man, now no longer needs insulin injections, following three transplants of islet cells isolated from cadaveric donor pancreases.

Edmonton-Japanese Team Perform 1st Insulin Cell Transplant Using Living Donor

Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Using living donors could allow many more patients to get transplants sooner, and the quality will be much better coming from a living donor than from the donated organ of a dead person.

UCLA/VA Researchers Discover Fat Gene

Posted: Monday, January 24, 2005

UCLA/VA scientists have identified a new gene that controls how the body produces and uses fat. Called lipin, the gene may provide a new target for therapies to control obesity, diabetes and other weight-related disorders.

Diabetes Tests 'Offer Cure Hope'

Posted: Thursday, December 09, 2004

Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a shortage of donor pancreases to harvest the cells from.
Now National Institute of Health scientists say they have found a way to make more of the cells required.

Preemies Prone to 'Pre-Diabetes'

Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Children who are born prematurely, regardless of their actual birth weight, will have a 30% reduction in insulin sensitivity -- a pre-diabetic condition that can lead to full-blown diabetes

Wonder Pill, Rimonabant, Makes You Lose Weight And Keep It Off

Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Trials have shown that 33% of people on Rimonabant lost 10% of body weight and kept their weight down for two years - this is a record, no other diet drug has managed to keep a person's weight down for so long

Gene Linked To Greater Risk Of Heart Disease In Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Monday, November 15, 2004

Joslin Diabetes scientist have found variations in a gene that helps explain why people with type2 diabetes are at miuch greater risk for coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death for this group.

New Gene For Diabetes Found

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

A gene involved in the action of insulin is associated with type 2 diabetes and the body’s response to insulin has been found and reported on."The protein that this gene makes represses the insulin response, so if you are making a lot of this protein, your ability to respond to insulin would be blunted, which would lead to higher glucose (sugar) in your bloodstream. If it is too high, that’s diabetes,"