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Tracking Blood Sugar with Nano-Tattoos
Posted: Sunday, June 06, 2010
Chemical engineers are working on carbon nanotubes that could be injected under the skin to reveal blood glucose levels.

Experts Advise Beginning Daily Aspirin Later
Posted: Sunday, June 06, 2010
In a change, heart and diabetes groups push age threshold up from 40, to 50 for men, 60 for women.

New Device Predicts Diabetic Wound Healing
Posted: Sunday, June 06, 2010
A new breakthrough device developed by researchers can change the current landscape of chronic wound management.

Insulin Protects Against Artery Damage
Posted: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Long suspected of worsening artery damage in patients with diabetes, insulin instead protects blood vessels, a new study by Joslin Diabetes Center scientists indicates.

Metformin-induced Vitamin B12 Deficiency Presenting as a Peripheral Neuropathy
Posted: Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Chronic metformin use results in vitamin B12 deficiency in 30% of patients. Exhaustion of vitamin B12 stores usually occurs after twelve to fifteen years of absolute vitamin B12 deficiency.

Bariatric Surgery Can Just Mask Diabetes
Posted: Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Bariatric surgery may appear to cure diabetes based on measurements such as fasting plasma glucose and hemoglobin A1c, but postprandial glucose can still be elevated say researchers.

Soy Supplements Show No Diabetes Benefit
Posted: Sunday, April 18, 2010
Adding soy supplements to the diet may not improve blood sugar control in older women who are at high risk of or in the early stages of Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

Why Physicians Do Not Initiate Insulin Earlier
Posted: Sunday, April 18, 2010
In a current study it was found that there are certain barriers for physicians that prevent them prescribing insulin much earlier in the treatment of diabetes.

Switching to Once-Daily Victoza(R) (Liraglutide) from Exenatide Further Improves Blood Sugar Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2010
Diabetes Care has published online the results of the Novo Nordisk (NVO) LEAD™ 6 extension study...

Sixty Minutes of Physical Activity for Women Required Just to Maintain Weight?
Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2010
Sixty minutes daily of physical activity seven days a week is recommended for women just to maintain weight...

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