INSULIN-DEPENDENT diabetics have been warned to seek approval to carry life-saving needles and medication onto flights after a man collapsed en route to Sydney.
Under tough new airline security measures, patients must carry documentation to be allowed to take vital supplies onto flights.
A Sydney intensive care physician, Dr George Skowronski, warned diabetics to seek approval from […]

The generic drug metformin has fewer side effects than several newer, pricier medications, a government report finds. Metformin users are less likely to gain weight than type 2 diabetes patients who take Avandia, Actos, or other newer medications, researchers concluded, and they are more likely to show improvements in so-called “bad” cholesterol.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins […]

The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services is reminding people to recognize their risk for developing pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes and encouraging them to visit their local health provider to get tested.
Seventy-five percent of people with diabetes show no symptoms, so the best way to find out if you have diabetes or are […]

Checking genetic markers called telomeres could help predict a person’s future risk for coronary heart disease, according to researchers at the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in India.
Telomeres prevent the ends of chromosomes from fraying and sticking to one another. They are also believed to regulate how many times an individual cell can divide, according to […]

A judge refused yesterday to block sales of Pfizer’s inhalable in sulin product Exubera, saying the public’s need for a “new and less invasive treatment for diabetes” outweighed Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s claims that Pfizer is infringing on its patents.
U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand in New York said Novo’s at tempts to show irreparable harm […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials warned diabetics on Friday not to use counterfeit blood sugar test strips that were distributed nationwide and could provide inaccurate results.
The test strips are being sold for use with various models of LifeScan Inc. One Touch brand blood glucose monitors, the Food and Drug Administration said.
“The counterfeit […]

More than one out of every three individuals in the United States has diabetes or impaired fasting glucose, a condition that increases the risk of developing diabetes, new study findings suggest.The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes has increased in recent years, while undiagnosed diabetes and impaired fasting glucose has remained constant over the past decade.
“Despite public […]

Investigators have found that about 25 percent of patients with diabetes have symptoms of depression, confirming the relationship between these two conditions. Rates of depression were similar across ethnic groups, but there were significant differences in the use of depression treatment across groups.Dr. Mary de Groot, of Ohio University, Athens, and colleagues examined rates of […]

Holding that side of fries might help thwart type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.In a long-term study of nearly 85,000 U.S. women, researchers at Harvard University found that those with the highest potato intake had a modestly elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Pfizer Inc said today that the FDA has approved Exubera (inhaled human insulin) for the treatment of adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Exubera is the first non-injectable, inhalable form of insulin to be approved since the discovery of insulin in the 1920s, and represents a major advance in diabetes treatment. According to the […]

Moderate consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged and younger women, according to a new report.Dr. Rob M. van Dam from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues evaluated the consumption of different types of coffee in relation to the development of type 2 […]