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Neighborhoods Can Increase the Risk for Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Individuals living in neighborhoods conducive to physical activity and providing access to healthy foods may have a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 38% in a five-year period, according to a report.

New Definition of Metabolic Syndrome

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

A new joint statement from a number of professional organizations has identified specific criteria for the clinical diagnosis of metabolic syndrome, tightening up the definition, which previously differed from one organization to the next.

Low Rates of Postpartum Diabetes Screening

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The rate of postpartum diabetes screening is low, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

African Americans' Diabetes Prevalence Linked to Living Conditions

Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The higher incidence of diabetes among African Americans when compared to whites may have more to do with living conditions than genetics, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

Update on Dr. Faustman's Research on Reversing Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, run by Denise L. Faustman, MD, PhD, is moving rapidly through the clinical trial challenge to test and possibly establish a vaccine using a generic drug, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to reverse Type 1 diabetes.

Diabetic Retinopathy Linked to Inflammatory Markers

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

In patients with Type 1 diabetes and kidney disease, several serum markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction are associated with increasing prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy, investigators report.

Diabetes Among Children Most Likely Occur in Winter

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

An international study says that children under the age of 15 are more susceptible to developing diabetes in winter.

Insulin Syringes Voluntarily Recalled

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Accusure insulin syringes (Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) distributed nationwide from January 2007 through June 2008 are undergoing voluntary recall because of the detachment of needles from the syringes.

MRI Can Evaluate Beta-Cell Mass

Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Noninvasive imaging (MRI) may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Prevention and Detection of Diabetes Needs to Be a Priority

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The National Changing Diabetes((R)) Program (NCDP), a program of Novo Nordisk, and several member associations recently urged President Obama and members of Congress to make the prevention, detection and treatment of diabetes, one of the nation's most pervasive and costly diseases, a priority in reforming the U.S. healthcare system.