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Sweet News for Consumers of Sugar Substitutes

Posted: Friday, July 28, 2006

Sugar substitutes receive a strong endorsement this month from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Report: Gardenia Fruit Compound Starting Point For Diabetes Therapy

Posted: Friday, June 30, 2006

A Gardenia fruit extract traditionally used in Chinese medicine to treat the symptoms of type 2 diabetes does indeed contain a chemical that reverses some of the pancreatic dysfunctions that underlie the disease, researchers report in the June 7, 2006, Cell Metabolism. The chemical therefore represents a useful starting point for new diabetes therapies, they said.

New Test Measures Quantity of Active Beta Cells

Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have identified a reliable, non-invasive imaging method that can measure the quantity of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells.

Mechanism For How The Pancreas Makes Insulin Is Crystalized

Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2006

"It is possible that the insulin deficiency happens when the crystals don't form properly and then part of the insulin that is produced gets destroyed."

Preserving Insulin Production In Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetics

Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2006

A drug used to treat lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis and other immune disorders may enable newly-diagnosed type 1 diabetics to save some of their pancreas function and thereby reduce their susceptibility to long-term complications

Potato Lovers May Have Higher Diabetes Risk

Posted: Monday, March 13, 2006

Those who ate the most french fries, specifically, had a 21 percent greater risk of diabetes than those who ate the fewest.

New research suggests that holding that side of fries might help thwart type 2 diabetes.

New Diabetes Form Found by Norwegian Researchers

Posted: Monday, January 23, 2006

In addition to high blood sugar levels, the disease is characterized by a decrease in pancreatic functioning and reduced fat absorption in the intestine.

Research Brings the Artificial Pancreas One Step Closer

Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2005

New Artificial Pancreas invented that can measure glucose and inject insulin.

Beta-Cells Regenerate Even In Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

A new study provides evidence that the pancreas continues to form beta cells even in the setting of long-standing type 1 diabetes

Mother Frees Daughter From Diabetes

Posted: Monday, May 02, 2005

By donating cells from her pancreas, a Japanese mother has ended her daughter's type 1 diabetes — at least for now — say the doctors who performed the transplant operation.