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ADVANCE: Intensive Glucose-Lowering Not Associated With Increased Mortality

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Data from the ADVANCE Study, involving 11,140 high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes, provides no evidence of an increased risk of death among those patients receiving aggressive treatment to lower blood glucose.

FDA Approves First Insulin Analog for Use in Insulin Pumps by Children, Adolescents

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The FDA has approved insulin aspart (rDNA origin) injection (NovoLog) for continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) by external insulin pump in pediatric patients aged 4 to 18 years. It is the first and only insulin analog approved for this use.

Uric Acid Provides Early Clues To Diabetic Kidney Disease

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

For patients with type 1 diabetes, increased levels of uric acid in the blood may be an early sign of diabetic kidney disease--appearing before any significant change in urine albumin level, the standard screening test.

New Stem Cell Therapies to Treat Diabetes Proposed

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Stem cell therapies have shown tremendous promise with numerous diseases (heart disease, Alzheimer's, etc...), but to date, diabetes has not been the most appropriate diseases for this form of treatment. Japanese researchers have recently tried to change this trend, making progressive proposals of how to utilize stem cells for diabetes.

Weight-loss More Effective than Intensive Insulin Therapy for Type 2 Diabetics

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Weight-loss and major lifestyle changes may be more effective than intensive insulin therapy for overweight patients with poorly controlled, insulin-resistant type 2 diabetes, according to a diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

More Kids with Diabetes, Few Specialized Docs to Care for Them

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

The number of physicians who specialize in caring for kids with diabetes and obese kids at risk for the disease is not keeping pace with demand for care. For every 290 children with diabetes, there is only one board-certified pediatric endo available to care for them.

Diabetes And Endometrial Cancer Risk

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Women with type 2 diabetes had a 70 percent greater likelihood of developing endometrial cancer, study findings suggest.

Frog Skin Provides Hope For A New Diabetes Teatment

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Just as the spit from the Gila Monster has provided a treatment for diabetes, now skin secretions from a South American ""shrinking"" frog could be used to treat type 2 diabetes also.

Constant High Blood Sugar Disables Insulin 'Off' Switch

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Researchers say reversing that pattern offers hope of new diabetes treatments.

Physical Activity Increases Effectiveness of Beta-Cells

Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Sedentary older people at risk of developing diabetes showed significant improvement in the function of their insulin-making beta cells after just one week of exercise.