Researcher Links Diabetic Complication, Nerve Damage in Bone Marrow
A research team has discovered a link between diabetes and bone marrow nerve damage that may help treat one of the disease's most common and potentially blindness-causing complications.
New Procedure Could Lead to Type 1 Diabetes Cure
Researchers have discovered a new potential therapy that can protect human pancreatic cells, which may lead to a possible cure for type 1 diabetes. New...
Diabetes Drug May Be New Tool in Treating Breast Cancer
Researchers have decoded the step-by-step process by which a class of anti-diabetes drugs inhibits cancerous tumor growth.
Discovery: Cancer Biology Discovery Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatments
Researchers have found that the acute loss of a protein called menin can cause the proliferation of pancreatic islet cells, which secrete insulin to regulate blood sugar. Discovery has implications for treating Type 1 diabetes.
Research Shows Link Between Diabetes, Heart Disease and Cancer
There are a number of risk factors shared between diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and several different types of cancer. In a major symposium at the...
Rosiglitazone for Type 2 Diabetes: Concern Over Side Effects
New studies are needed to assess the trade-offs between potential benefits and potential harms when rosiglitazone is used by people with type 2 diabetes.
Hormone Found To Reduce Appetite By A Third
An international team of scientists has discovered a hormone that can significantly decrease the appetite, reducing the amount of food eaten in a day by a third.
Insulin Analogues May Be Useful for Some Patients with Problematic Hypoglycemia
A comprehensive systematic review looked at outcomes associated with the use of rapid- and long-acting insulin analogues in adult and childhood type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as gestational diabetes.
Female Hormones Found to Protect Against Harmful Effects of Fructose
Groundbreaking study in female mice links estrogen, lower blood pressure, and insulin resistance, despite a high fructose diet.
Research Finds That Diabetes Disease-Management Programs Improve Quality of Care; But Patients’ Health Outcomes...
With diabetes disease-management programs becoming more commonly used among physician groups, the question arises: Just how effective are they at improving patient care?
Diabetes Patients are Overtested, Mayo Clinic Warns
Mayo Clinic researchers report a trend toward overtesting patients with type 2 diabetes, resulting in increased cost, time and potential overtreatment with drugs. In...
Insulin Response To Some Energy Bars Is Out Of Balance
A new study reports that energy bars with low or moderate levels of carbohydrates may actually not help dieters lose weight as they promise to do.
Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes Have Diminished Cognitive Performance and Brain Abnormalities
A study has found that obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes have diminished cognitive performance and subtle abnormalities in the brain as detected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Adolescent Diabetes Higher Than Previously Reported
Research recently published by JAMA details the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in American adolescents and previous estimates were lower than they should have...
Scientists Discover New Mechanism for Controlling Blood Sugar Level
Medical scientists have identified for the first time a new way in which our body controls the levels of sugar in our blood following a meal.
Diabetes-Related Death from Cardiovascular Disease Predicted by Heart Calcium Scan
The best way for doctors to predict which diabetes patients are at the greatest risk for heart disease is to use a coronary artery calcium (CAC) test in addition to the most commonly used assessment tool.
