http://diabeticstoday.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:19:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/featured/collapse-on-flight-prompts-needle-warning-to-diabetics.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/news-and-info/new-details-fuel-concerns-over-diabetes-drug.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/news-and-info/metabasis-drug-trials-called-disappointing.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/featured/older-diabetic-drugs-do-better-than-new-ones.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/featured/diabetes-controlled-with-testing-diet-and-medication.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/featured/gene-marker-may-predict-diabetes-risk.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/news-and-info/a-red-wine-extract-may-protect-against-diabetes-and-obesity.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/news-and-info/toronto-researchers-make-breakthrough-in-type-1-diabetes-research.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/featured/judge-allows-sale-of-pfizer-diabetes-drug.html 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 ... http://diabeticstoday.com/featured/us-warns-about-fake-diabetic-blood-test-strips.html