Obese Children Metabolize Drugs Differently Than Healthy Weight Children
Researchers have provided the first evidence-based data on changes in drug metabolism in obese children as compared to healthy weight children.
Research Team Tests Alternative Approach to Treating Diabetes
In a study, scientists have demonstrated the feasibility of a promising new strategy for treating human type 2 diabetes, which affects more than 200 million people worldwide.
Sweetened Drinks Put Children at Risk for Obesity, Poor Nutrition
Too much soda and other sugar-filled drinks make children fat - which can lead to other problems.
Researchers Identify Link Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers identify how leptin may result in the development of drugs to help manage obesity and diabetes.
Mount Sinai Researchers Identify How a Gene Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease and Type 2...
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified how a gene for a protein that can cause Type 2 diabetes, also possibly kills nerve cells in the brain, thereby contributing to Alzheimer's disease.
Potential Treatment to Improve Insulin Secretion in Type 2 Diabetics; May Also Improve Beta...
Discovery suggests a new target for treating dysfunctional beta cells and type 2 diabetes.
Anti-Psychotic Drugs May Be Associated With Increased Risk Of Diabetes In Schizophrenia Patients
Patients treated with the atypical anti-psychotic agents clozapine and olanzapine may be at an increased risk for insulin resistance.
Common Diabetes Drug Kills Some Cancer Cells
Researchers have found that a commonly prescribed diabetes drug kills tumor cells that lack a key regulatory gene called p53.
Leptin Resistance May Prevent Severe Lung Disease in Patients with Diabetes
Resistance to leptin, a protein that plays a key role in regulating metabolism and appetite, may help prevent the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute lung injury (ALI) in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
Most Ongoing Diabetes Trials Do Not Include Outcomes Important to Patients
An analysis of ongoing randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in diabetes finds that only about 20 percent have as primary outcomes results that patients consider important, such as illness, pain, effect on function and death, according to a study.
Newly Identified Genes Influence Insulin and Glucose Regulation, 5 variants raise type 2 diabetes...
Researchers found 13 new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of insulin-secreting beta cells in populations of European descent. Five of the variants increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Among Youth in U.S., Whites Have Highest Incidence of Diabetes
Non-Hispanic white youth have the highest rate of diabetes of all racial/ethnic groups for children in the U.S., with type 1 being the predominant kind of diabetes among youth.
Individuals with Long-Term Type 1 Diabetes Still Capable of Producing Insulin
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have discovered that a significant portion of people who have had type 1 diabetes for 50 or more years still have the capacity to produce insulin.
Scientists Show Knocking Out Two Key Signals Will Cause Diabetes
Scientists have discovered that the different metabolic abnormalities present in type 2 diabetes can be caused by knocking out two key signals in liver cells.
A Viral Cure for Type 1 Diabetes
Viruses can both cause and prevent autoimmune disease. Therefore viruses that do not directly destroy b cells may actually enhance the course of autoimmune diabetes.
Gene Trigger For Pancreas Formation Identified
Could pave the way toward limitless supplies of pancreatic cells for transplantation therapy of diabetes.
