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Intensive Diabetes Treatment Can Lower Resting Heart Rate
Posted: Friday, September 07, 2007
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Intensive blood glucose control in type 1 diabetic patients is associated with a lowering of resting heart rate, according to a new report.
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Use of Insulin Pen Can Save $17,000 in Health Care Costs
Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007
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Diabetics who need to switch from oral medications to insulin could reduce their annual healthcare costs up to $17,000 by using an insulin pen instead of a syringe to deliver their daily dose of medication. A new study found that using an insulin pen may result in fewer trips to the emergency department and to the doctor's office, resulting in substantial savings to diabetics and their insurers.
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Lettuce May Be The Next Big Diabetes Treatment
Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
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Capsules of insulin produced in genetically modified lettuce could hold the key to restoring the body's ability to produce insulin and help millions of Americans who suffer from insulin-dependent diabetes, according to University of Central Florida biomedical researchers.
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Superiority Not Proven for Rapid-Acting Insulin Analogues
Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007
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There is currently no evidence available of a superiority of rapid-acting insulin analogues over human insulin in the treatment of adult patients with diabetes mellitus type 1.
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Less Insulin In the Brain Key to a Long Life
Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Good, old-fashioned diet and exercise might keep you young by reducing the action of insulin in the brain, researchers reported.
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Scientists Working On A New Insulin Pill
Posted: Saturday, July 14, 2007
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Insulin injections may soon be a thing of the past.
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Once Weekly Dosing GLP-1 Promotes Beta-Cell Growth
Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007
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Preclinical data suggests a long-acting formulation of native, human GLP-1 can promote the growth of insulin producing cells (beta cells) in a type 1 diabetes animal model.
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Patients Beat Physicians at Insulin Dose Adjustment
Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007
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Type 2 diabetes patients taught to titrate their own insulin detemir (Levemir) dose may equal or exceed the results that physicians achieve, researchers reported.
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Study Tests Oral Insulin to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007
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University of Florida researchers have begun a clinical study of oral insulin to prevent or delay type 1 diabetes in people at risk for the disease.
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New Finding Discovers How Embryos Create Beta-Cells
Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007
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Scientists have discovered a key aspect of how embryos create the cells that secrete insulin.
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