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High Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Researchers at Rutgers University found that soft drinks sweetened with HFCS may contribute to the development of diabetes, particularly in children.

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.

Breast-Feeding Curbs Type 2 Diabetes Later

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Breast-fed babies appear to be less likely to develop type 2 diabetes when they reach adolescence, according to findings published in the medical journal Diabetes Care.

Vitamin D Supplements Can Help To Prevent Type 1 Diabetes' by 30%

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Supplements of vitamin D can help young children to ward off diabetes in later life, researchers report. The chance of developing Type 1 diabetes fell by almost a third in those who received extra doses of the vitamin.