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Depression Care Management Can Reduce Mortality in Older Patients With Diabetes

Posted: Friday, September 07, 2007

Depression care management may reduce 5-year mortality in older primary care patients with both depression and diabetes, according to the results of a new study.

AACE Publishes New Diabetes Clinical Practice Guidelines

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) announced the release of its medical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus. The Guidelines consider the clinical management of blood glucose, blood pressure, and abnormalities of lipid metabolism, and also address the prevention of diabetes and the prevention and treatment of diabetic complications.

Vitamin K Helps in Regulating Insulin Activity in Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007

The vitamin K dependant protein osteocalcin may have a positive effect on reducing obesity and diabetes, suggests a new study.

Secondary Failure of Glucose Control With Metformin, Sulfonylurea, or TZD's Monotherapy

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Which drugs are the ones to sustain good control, the longest?

Metformin and Body Weight

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Where most other diabetes medications cause weight gain, metformin can cause weight reduction.

Bone Cells May Be Key to Controlling Diabetes- New Possible Treatment

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have discovered that certain bone cells produce a hormone called osteocalcin, which influences beta-cell proliferation and controls the metabolism of blood sugar (glucose) and fat deposits through previously unknown mechanisms.

Reducing Inflammation Plays Key Role in Type 1 Diabetes Therapy

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have found that a triple combination therapy consisting of both tolerance-inducing and anti-inflammatory properties is successful in abolishing adverse autoimmunity against insulin-producing cells in a mouse model of Type 1 diabetes.

Trial Using Cancer Meds To Control And Possibly Reverse Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Drug can possibly kill off the T-cells that are attacking the betacells.

Lettuce May Be The Next Big Diabetes Treatment

Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Capsules of insulin produced in genetically modified lettuce could hold the key to restoring the body's ability to produce insulin and help millions of Americans who suffer from insulin-dependent diabetes, according to University of Central Florida biomedical researchers.

Statin Use in Patients With LDLs of 40mg/dL or Less is Safe and Beneficial

Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Statins used in patients with extremely low LDL cholesterol levels are safe and may lead to improved survival, according to the results of a new study. This survival benefit of a reduced mortality of 42% was observed across multiple subgroups, including patients with LDL cholesterol levels <40mg/dL and those without documented coronary artery disease.