Yearly Archives: 2005

Potential for life-threatening falsely elevated glucose readings in patients who have received parenteral products containing maltose or galactose, or oral xylose, and are subsequently tested using glucose dehydrogenase pyrroloquinolinequinone (GDH-PQQ) based glucose monitoring systems.

Obstetricians and gynecologists need to do a better job of encouraging women with uncomplicated pregnancies to exercise. The message is not getting out that women should continue to exercise during pregnancy, at least at moderate intensity.

When the appetite-enhancing hormone ghrelin was discovered a few years ago, researchers thought they had found the last of the major genes that regulate weight. They were wrong.

FDA has approved INVANZ® (ertapenem), a once-daily injectable antibiotic, for the treatment of moderate to severe complicated foot infection due to indicated pathogens in diabetic patients without osteomyelitis.

Mice with the mouse model of Alzheimer's disease show improvements in their condition when treated with a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet.

Lidocaine and similar local anesthetics are effective for treating pain that emanates from damaged nerves, according to a systematic review of current evidence.

New data presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of NAASO, The Obesity Society in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The suit asks the Court to compel public school officials to comply with federal law by providing the assistance that California students with diabetes require to manage their diabetes during the school day.

Physicians monitoring patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery should be on the alert for a new, potentially dangerous hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) complication.

Patients who have gastric bypass surgery have double the rate of hospitalization in the year following the operation than in the year preceding surgery.

Patients with type 1 diabetes have an improved prognosis with regard to end-stage renal disease over the past four decades.

The cuts will leave many Maine adults living in poverty with no or inadequate coverage for vital care and medical supplies required to properly manage diabetes.

Physical activity may help reduce gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in people who are obese.

One of the most effective ways to change negative attitudes about obese people is by addressing perceptions of normative beliefs within particular social groups.

Junk food could be made healthier by adding an extract of an exotic type of seaweed, say British scientists.

New research shows that adolescents who eat large amounts of fried food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor-quality diet.