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Nanoparticle Vaccine Used to Cure Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Sunday, April 18, 2010

Using a sophisticated nanotechnology-based "vaccine," researchers were able to successfully cure mice with Type 1 diabetes and slow the onset of the disease in mice at risk for the disease.

Leptin Therapy Shows Promise for Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2010

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers report that using leptin alone in place of standard insulin therapy shows promise in abating symptoms of Type 1 diabetes...

Unseen Part of the Insulin Receptor Identified

Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2010

Dr. Mike Lawrence from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Melbourne, Australia) has determined the structure of a previously unseen part of the insulin receptor, making possible new treatments for diabetes...

April is Defeat Diabetes® Month

Posted: Thursday, April 01, 2010

Defeat Diabetes Foundation Presents 30 Days of Activities to Help Prevent the Disease and its Complications

FDA Approves Combined Diabetes Management System

Posted: Sunday, March 28, 2010

The FDA approved Medtronic's MiniMed Paradigm REAL-Time Revel System, a diabetes management system that combines an insulin pump with a glucose monitoring system. The system may represent the next step toward an artificial pancreas.

Celiac and Diabetes Are Related Through Genetics

Posted: Sunday, March 07, 2010

Data increasingly supports an association between rs6822844 at the IL2-IL21 region and multiple autoimmune diseases in individuals of European descent. A number of autoimmune diseases share susceptibility genes, pointing to similar molecular mechanisms.

Diabetes Vaccine Possible This Decade, Says Report

Posted: Sunday, March 07, 2010

In the not-too-distant future we could see diabetes, the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., treated with a vaccine. Several vaccine candidates are in the pipeline, creating a possible $2.4 billion market for diabetes vaccine products by 2020.

Vinegar Decreases Postprandial Hyperglycemia in Patients with Type 1

Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2010

Vinegar could be easily used as a complementary food (e.g., in a salad dressing) to reduce hyperglycemia.

Key to Reversing Type 1 Diabetes Discovered

Posted: Sunday, February 14, 2010

Doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School's Strelitz Diabetes Center have been stalking the culprit responsible for Type 1 diabetes. Now, they are one step closer.

Use of Metformin in Type 1's

Posted: Sunday, February 14, 2010

Metformin reduces insulin-dose requirement in Type 1 diabetes. As adding metformin to insulin therapy has been advocated in Type 1 diabetes, researchers at the Universities of Dundee and Aberdeen, U.K., conducted a systematic review of published clinical trials and clinical trial databases to assess the effects on HbA1c, weight, insulin-dose requirement and adverse effects.