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 […]

New details on the side effects of the diabetes drug Avandia have been released, indicating it can cause 50% more weight gain than similar medications and double the risk of dangerous fluid retention in the body.
The review of 18 previous studies, involving 8000 patients, also echoes earlier warnings that the drug can elevate the risk […]

Metabasis Therapeutics yesterday delivered a one-two punch of bad news to investors regarding its experimental diabetes and hepatitis therapies, sending its shares plummeting more than 50 percent.The San Diego-based company said its developmental therapy for Type 2 diabetes failed to meet efficacy endpoints in a midstage trial. Meanwhile, the company said Schering-Plough Corp. has terminated […]

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 […]

Researchers from the University Louis Pasteur in collaboration with the University of Harvard (1), the University of Kuopio (2) and the Pharmaceutical company Sirtris pharmaceuticals, have provided new data on the metabolic impact of resveratrol in the body.
Resveratrol is a phenolic derivative found in certain plants, peanuts and in the skin of black grapes. It […]

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Kids has announced some major progress in the fight against Type 1 diabetes.It has always been believed that diabetes is caused when insulin-producing cells in the pancreas are destroyed by what scientists thought were abnormalities of the immune system.
This new research at the Hospital for Sick Kids however, has found a […]

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 […]

NEW YORK - Every day the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center is busy — with new and returning patients. 
Director Dr. Robin Goland says its is a major problem in every hospital.
“Ten percent of patients on a medical service in a hospital have diabetes,” she says. “Fifty percent of patients on a […]

Trials of an experimental drug which helps slow down the loss of vision caused by diabetes have had very optimistic results.
Diabetic retinopathy is recognized as the leading cause of blindness in the working aged population and results in enormous human and financial costs; at present laser treatments are used to treat the disease.
It is a […]

Researchers at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, have found that a protein (neuregulin-1 type III, or NRG1-III) essential for the protective wrapping around a nerve’s central wiring, or axons, also determines its fate.
Just as plastic coatings insulate electrical wires, myelin coats nerve fibers. This fatty substance also […]

For the second consecutive year, the appropriations committees of both houses of Congress have approved specific language written by The Neuropathy Association urging the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to strengthen its research portfolio for peripheral neuropathy.   The language is part of a report that will accompany legislation appropriating more than $1.5 […]

Peripheral Neuropathy is one of the most common diseases most people have never heard of (15-20 million Americans have it). Caused by deterioration of the peripheral nerves, this disease disrupts the body’s ability to communicate with its muscles, organs and tissues. It is like the body’s wiring system going haywire, causing unusual or unpleasant irritations […]

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 […]

U.S. patients and doctors alike show a surprising level of ignorance about diabetes and are not doing nearly enough to manage the condition, diabetes experts said Wednesday.
A survey found that although patients believe they understand diabetes, they are not doing what they need to do to control it, and their doctors are unable to help […]

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 […]

Something like three out of every five patients with type 2 diabetes show signs of vitamin D deficiency, Italian researchers report in the medical journal Diabetes Care.”Our findings,” Giovanni Targher told Reuters Health, “confirm some previous evidence demonstrating that vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in people with type 2 diabetes.”
Because a lack of vitamin […]