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Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Stopped in Childhood

Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A child's current body fat is the strongest predictor of poor insulin sensitivity. But, can 8 year old children give up their sweets, when everyone else around is eating them?

Gene Inhibition Helps to Normalize Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

In research that could lead to new approaches for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, a research team has found that suppressing a liver enzyme that induces glucose production helped diminish the symptoms of the disease — reducing blood glucose concentrations, decreasing rates of glucose production in the liver, and improving insulin sensitivity.

New Possible Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Dr. Aaron Vinik, principle investigator for the study at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, is testing a new diabetes drug, Prochymal. It’s part of a first-of-its-kind study for finding a possible cure.

Liraglutide Reverses Prediabetes 90%

Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Researchers at the ADA reported that Liraglutide reverses prediabetes indices in most obese patients with existing prediabetes.

Bariatric Surgery Patient Database Exceeding 120,000

Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2009

With more than 120,000 patients having a bariatric surgery procedure, we now have a database that can help in determining which patients would benefit from the different forms of bariatric surgery.

Will Surgery Revolutionize Diabetes Treatment?

Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009

New data presented at the recent AACE meeting shows that metabolic surgery, a new surgical approach to metabolic disease, may provide the key to curing diabetes in some patients. However, if the result is normal blood sugars for Type 2 patients without medications, is it a cure?

Weight Loss Is Not All That Matters after Bariatric Surgery

Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) corrects comorbidities and quality of life similarly in superobese and morbidly obese patients despite higher residual weight in superobese patients, according to the results of a prospective cohort study.

Scientists Create Potential Preventative Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Scientists believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body's killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset.

Australian Docs Discover a Type 1 Diabetes Breakthrough

Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Australian doctors believe they have found the key to eradicating Type 1 diabetes, the kind that obliges sufferers to regulate their blood glucose levels every day of their lives.

Narcolepsy an Autoimmune Disorder

Posted: Sunday, May 03, 2009

A specific immune cell has been identified in narcolepsy patients, indicating that the common sleep disorder is in fact an autoimmune disease. This finding, and a further understanding of the specific mechanisms that cause narcolepsy, could serve as a model for other autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and Crohn´s disease.