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Have you had your handful of tree nuts today?
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Heart • Aug 21 08
“More and more research shows the positive impact of tree nut consumption on satiety and weight management, as well as a number of chronic…
Researchers Discover New Effect for Insulin
• Diabetes • • Drug News • Mar 20 08
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin has a previously unknown effect that plays a role in aging and lifespan, a…
Cell therapies for diabetes, cancer?
• Cancer • • Diabetes • Mar 19 08
Therapies using stem cell transplants are advancing promising treatments for such conditions as Alzheimer’s Disease, neurological diseases and spinal cord injury, and heart disease.…
‘Tweens’ double use of diabetes drugs
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • • Drug Abuse • • Obesity • Nov 07 07
America’s tweens more than doubled their use of type-2 diabetes medications between 2002 and 2005, with girls between 10 and 14 years of age…
U.S. veterans dept to limit diabetes drug Avandia
• Diabetes • • Drug Abuse • Oct 19 07
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to “severely limit” the use of the diabetes drug Avandia over safety concerns, the New York…
Milk and Dairy Products Protect Against “Metabolic Syndrome”
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Jul 12 07
A daily pinta or a helping of dairy foods protect against the clustering of abnormal body chemistry known as the metabolic syndrome, suggests…
Type 2 diabetes may raise Parkinson’s risk
• Diabetes • • Neurology • Mar 29 07
Patients with type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, although the reasons are unclear, Finnish researchers reported on Wednesday.
They found…
Coffee: Is it Good or Bad for You?
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Heart • • Menopause • Feb 03 07
If your morning beverage of choice is coffee, recent research provides an extra perk.
Like much-publicized green tea, which has garnered considerable attention…
Diabetics need hours of insulin after pizza
• Diabetes • May 10 05
Pizza can affect diabetics’ blood sugar for up to 8 hours, suggesting that people with type 1 diabetes need a slow and…
Low-fat dairy foods may lower diabetes risk in men
• Diabetes • May 09 05
Eating lots of dairy foods, especially low-fat varieties, may cut the chances of a man developing type 2 diabetes, according to a…
Diabetes control crucial after heart attack
• Diabetes • May 03 05
For people with type 2 diabetes who suffer a Heart attack , keeping their blood sugar levels under control has a…
FDA OKs new drug for type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes • Apr 29 05
A drug derived from lizard saliva has been approved by U.S. regulators to treat Diabetes in patients who have not responded to other treatments,…
Genes may predict response to diabetes drug
• Diabetes • Apr 26 05
How well a person with type 2 diabetes responds to the anti-diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) may depend upon his or her genetic…
Sleep patterns linked to diabetes risk
• Diabetes • Apr 25 05
Sleeping for less than six hours or for more than nine hours each night is associated with an increased risk of Diabetes and impaired…
Diabetes diagnosis in child traumatic for parents
• Diabetes • Apr 20 05
Many parents struggle emotionally with the news that a child has Diabetes, and take months to adjust, according to new study findings.
After analyzing…
Diet, exercise best for preventing pre-diabetes
• Diabetes • Apr 19 05
Lifestyle changes are more effective than drug treatment in preventing metabolic syndrome, the cluster of disorders that can lead to diabetes and Heart disease,…
Waist size indicates risk of diabetes - study
• Diabetes • Apr 15 05
Waist size is a good indicator of a person’s risk of becoming insulin resistant, an early stage in the development of Diabetes and Heart…
Depression increases mortality risk in diabetics
• Diabetes • Apr 15 05
The results of a new study confirm that people with diabetes are prone to depression. The findings also show that depression significantly increases the…
Memory remains intact in type 1 diabetics
• Diabetes • Apr 01 05
Some areas of cognitive function, or thinking ability, are impaired in patients with type 1 diabetes, but learning and memory remain intact,…
Belly fat good predictor of diabetes in men
• Diabetes • Apr 01 05
Overall Obesity, measured by high body mass index (BMI) - the height-to-weight ratio, and abdominal obesity, measured by a large waist circumference,…
Actos controls blood sugar for up to 2 years
• Diabetes • Mar 30 05
The results of a new study indicate that pioglitazone is superior to gliclazide in sustaining glycemic control for up to two years in Staying active at work and during leisure time may help reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease or any other cause for men…
The proportion of U.S. women who develop Diabetes during pregnancy - that is, gestational diabetes - appears to be increasing, which may…
Regular exercise among women with type 2 diabetes may not only reduce waist size, but may also reduce the…
For diabetic patients with foot ulcers, wrapping a standard removable cast walker with a cohesive bandage improves compliance with the…
Exercise key to longevity for type 2 diabetics
• Diabetes • Mar 28 05
Pregnancy-related diabetes rising in the U.S.
• Diabetes • Mar 25 05
Exercise helps control type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes • Mar 24 05
Non-removable cast heals diabetic foot ulcers
• Diabetes • Mar 23 05