Avoiding Amputation: Early Infection Intervention Can Save Feet and Legs
A new study may help more people save their limbs. It's the first-ever large study of how foot-bone infection, called osteomyelitis, is typically treated and how well the different approaches work.
Aspirin Underused To Reduce Heart Disease Risk In Diabetic Women And Young Adults
Women and people under 50 who have diabetes are not using aspirin, despite the fact that it has been found an effective and inexpensive means to reduce risk of first and subsequent heart attack.
Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care
Spending money to improve diabetes care at federally qualified community health centers is a sound investment, according to one of the first studies to examine the clinical and economic impact of quality improvement on diabetes care.
Study Reveals High Rate Of Diabetes In Rural India
Populations in rural India may be set for an epidemic of diabetes according to new research conducted by The George Institute for International Health and published today in Diabetes Care.
Diabetes Most Prevalent in Southern US
Diabetes prevalence is highest in the Southern and Appalachian states and lowest in the Midwest and the Northeast of America.
Diabetes Belt Identified in Southern United States
In the 1960s, a group of U.S. states with high age-adjusted stroke mortality defined a stroke belt. Until recently, geographic patterns of diabetes had not been specifically characterized in the same manner.
Study: Popular Cholesterol-Lowering Statin May Reduce the Benefits of Exercise
Researchers found that a widely used statin hindered the positive effects of exercise for obese and overweight adults.
Eye Study Finds 2 Therapies Slow Diabetic Eye Disease Progression
In high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans.
New Findings Change Understanding of Adult Stem Cells
Researchers have found neural stem cells in the peripheral nervous system of adult animals, where they were not believed to exist. The studies show that the intrinsic properties of neural stem cells vary according to the region of the peripheral nervous system in which the cells are located.
Type 1 Diabetes Breakthrough with Artemisinin Treatment
Researchers have announced that FDA-approved artemisinins, used for decades to treat malaria, offer a completely new therapy for type 1 diabetes. It promises to be...
Common Diabetes Drug May Help Prevent Liver Cancer
A drug widely used to treat Type II diabetes, may help to prevent primary liver cancer, researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center report in the April 2012 issue of Cancer Prevention Research.
Study Raises Questions on Widespread Prescribing of Diabetic Footwear
The evidence suggests that a shift in the diabetic foot care paradigm may be in order.
Worldwide Medtronic Recall of Diabetes Infusion Sets due to Hypoglycemia Risk
Medtronic has started a worldwide recall of specific lots of infusion sets used with all models of Medtronic insulin pumps for diabetes due to hypoglycemia risk.
Men With 3 of 5 Metabolic Abnormalities Risk Diabetes, Heart Disease
Men with at least 3 metabolic abnormalities are at high risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Weight Loss From a Fat Cell Hormone?
Researchers have established in an animal model that a hormone secreted by fat tissue acts in the brain to reduce body weight.
Diabetes Preventing Drug for Pre-Diabetics Rarely Being Used
Few doctors are prescribing a low-cost drug that has been proven effective in preventing the onset of diabetes, according to a UCLA study. The study,...
