ACE2, a molecule that has been shown to prevent damage in the heart, is now proving to be protective of the major organs that are often damaged in diabetic patients. Gavin Oudit, a researcher with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and his colleagues at the University of Florida, found that lab models that lacked ACE2 had worse cardiovascular complications related to diabetes...
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Molecule That Prevents Heart Damage is Also Proving Its Worth In Diabetic Patients
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Cheap New Paper-Based Diagnostic Test For Diabetes
Cheap New Paper-Based Diagnostic Test For DiabetesWith epidemics of Type 2 diabetes looming in rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care, scientists are reporting development of an inexpensive and easy-to-use urine test ideally suited for such areas... -
An Estimated 53 Million Americans May Have Diabetes By 2025
An Estimated 53 Million Americans May Have Diabetes By 2025The Diabetes 2025 Model for the U.S. projects a continuous and dramatic increase in the diabetes epidemic and makes it possible to estimate the potential effects of society-wide changes in lifestyle and healthcare delivery systems... -
Food Cravings Reduced By Lizard Saliva
Food Cravings Reduced By Lizard SalivaA drug made from the saliva of the Gila monster lizard is effective in reducing the craving for food. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, have tested the drug on rats, who after treatment ceased their cravings for both food and chocolate... -
Unexpected Source Of Diabetic Neuropathy Pain Discovered
Unexpected Source Of Diabetic Neuropathy Pain DiscoveredNearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now Yale researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target to alleviate it...
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Statin Drugs Might Slightly Boost Diabetes Risk
Statin Drugs Might Slightly Boost Diabetes RiskNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs do not reduce the risk of diabetes and might modestly elevate the chances of developing the condition, researchers found in a pooled analysis of trial data. -
Diabetes Drug Helps Obese Adults Loss Weight
Diabetes Drug Helps Obese Adults Loss WeightNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese adults may shed more weight with the diabetes drug liraglutide than with the weight-loss drug orlistat (Xenical, Alli), suggests a study in The Lancet this week. -
Shellfish May Raise Diabetes Risk: Study
Shellfish May Raise Diabetes Risk: StudyNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating white and oily fish regularly may provide protection against type 2 diabetes, but eating shellfish may have the opposite effect, a study from the UK hints. -
Combo Pill An Option for Diabetes-related Nerve Pain
Combo Pill An Option for Diabetes-related Nerve PainNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A single pill containing the pain relievers tramadol and acetaminophen is as effective as the drug gabapentin for treating diabetes-related nerve pain, according to study findings presented Tuesday at the 20th Wor... -
Can Fish for Dinner Lead to Diabetes?
Can Fish for Dinner Lead to Diabetes?NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Making sure fish ends up on your dinner plate a couple of times a week may be a good way to cut your risk for developing heart disease, but it may not do the same for diabetes, new study findings hint.
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Unexpected source for diabetic neuropathy pain
Unexpected source for diabetic neuropathy painNearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target to alleviate it. -
Protein inhibitor points to potential medical treatments for skull and skin birth defects
Protein inhibitor points to potential medical treatments for skull and skin birth defectsResearchers have found new clues in the pathogenesis of skull and skin birth defects associated with a rare genetic disorder, Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome (BSS). -
Artificial pancreas gets first U. S. Outpatient test
Artificial pancreas gets first U. S. Outpatient testThe first U.S. outpatient trial of an artificial pancreas could make it easier for type 1 diabetes patients to manage their condition. -
Scientists uncover potential treatment for painful side effect of diabetes
Scientists uncover potential treatment for painful side effect of diabetesWhy diabetics suffer from increased pain and temperature sensitivity is a step closer to being understood and effectively treated. -
What do marine snails and insulin have in common? New approach to treat diabetes?
What do marine snails and insulin have in common? New approach to treat diabetes?The cone snails are predators of the sea. They capture fish by injecting a venom into the prey that consists of a cocktail of different substances. The single components of the snails' venom, so-called conopeptides, are known for their extraordinary pharmacological properties and potential.
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My dads living with diabetes
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Artificial Sweeteners
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Diabetes Often Leads To Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes Often Leads To Chronic Kidney DiseaseMore than half the people with chronic kidney disease have diabetes. In 2008 diabetes accounted for 44% of new cases of kidney failure.
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Diabetes Can Take a Toll on Your Emotions
Diabetes Can Take a Toll on Your EmotionsTHURSDAY, May 17 -- Many people know diabetes -- both type 1 and type 2 -- can take a serious toll on physical health.
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Rev. Tillman hosts Sing Out Diabetes Gospel Concert
Rev. Tillman hosts Sing Out Diabetes Gospel ConcertRev. Thurmond Tillman held a gospel celebration Thursday night to help reach his goal for the Kiss a Pig fundraiser.
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Shrimp, seaweed and diabetic bandages? Research shows it's a match
Shrimp, seaweed and diabetic bandages? Research shows it's a matchIf you're Dr. Whitney Hough, it's a combination that will help diabetics overcome slow-healing sores - known as diabetic ulcers.
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Salk Study May Offer Drug-Free Intervention to Prevent Obesity and Diabetes
Salk Study May Offer Drug-Free Intervention to Prevent Obesity and DiabetesNewswise - LA JOLLA, CA----It turns out that when we eat may be as important as what we eat.
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Alzheimer's focus shifts to testing therapies earlier, before patients show many symptoms
Alzheimer's focus shifts to testing therapies earlier, before patients show many symptomsWASHINGTON - Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed. -
Coffee drinkers live longer, big study finds; regular and decaf are equally good
Coffee drinkers live longer, big study finds; regular and decaf are equally goodMILWAUKEE - One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. -
Expansion of B.C. insulin pump program would save millions, says CDA
Expansion of B.C. insulin pump program would save millions, says CDAVICTORIA - The Canadian Diabetes Association is calling on the British Columbia government to extend coverage of its insulin pump program to adults with type 1 diabetes. Currently, B.C. only pays for the pumps for children. -
UN finds high blood pressure, high glucose - signs that diseases of affluence are spreading
UN finds high blood pressure, high glucose - signs that diseases of affluence are spreadingGENEVA - A quarter of those 25 or older now have high blood pressure worldwide, and almost one in 10 has worrying levels of glucose in their blood. -
Clock ticking as Alzheimer's strategy sets 2025 goal for better ways to treat, stall, disease
Clock ticking as Alzheimer's strategy sets 2025 goal for better ways to treat, stall, diseaseWASHINGTON - The Obama administration declared Alzheimer's one of the country's biggest health challenges on Tuesday, adopting a national strategy that sets the clock ticking toward better treatments by 2025 — along with help for suffering families today.
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School-based Screening Program for Diabetes
School-based Screening Program for Diabetes
Union health ministry has initiated a school-based screening program for diabetes in six districts, says Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
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Prevent Disturbing Results Of Diabetes in 15 Key Steps
Prevent Disturbing Results Of Diabetes in 15 Key Steps
Adopting a string of simple health steps could be a key to evading potentially grave consequences of diabetes, aver experts.
The fresh advice came
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Scientists Discover Unexpected Source of Diabetic Neuropathy Pain, Clue to New Therapy
Scientists Discover Unexpected Source of Diabetic Neuropathy Pain, Clue to New Therapy
Scientists have come closer to finding new therapeutic strategy for diabetic neuropathy pain that continues to mysteriously agonize those suffering from diabetes.
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Risk of Gestational Diabetes High in Pregnant Women Who are Obese
Risk of Gestational Diabetes High in Pregnant Women Who are Obese
A new study to be presented at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists conference in Perth reveals that pregnant women who are obese have
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Positive Clinical Study Results from Automated Insulin Dosage Titration System
Positive Clinical Study Results from Automated Insulin Dosage Titration System
DIGS' potential to perk up blood glucose control for insulin-using patients with type 2 or type 1 diabetes revealed by freshly published results from