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 diabetics to seek approval from […]

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 you have diabetes or are […]

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 Kids however, has found a […]

NEW YORK - Every day the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center is busy — with new and returning patients. 
Director Dr. Robin Goland says its is a major problem in every hospital.
“Ten percent of patients on a medical service in a hospital have diabetes,” she says. “Fifty percent of patients on a […]

For the second consecutive year, the appropriations committees of both houses of Congress have approved specific language written by The Neuropathy Association urging the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to strengthen its research portfolio for peripheral neuropathy.   The language is part of a report that will accompany legislation appropriating more than $1.5 […]

Months ago I read about the benefits of cinnamon (pills) to help lower blood sugar levels, cholesterol, and triglycerides. Some report lower of blood sugar levels up to 20% lower in Type 2 diabetics. Since I am in this type of diabetic this definitely intriged me.
Cinnamon significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics, a new study […]

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 drug can elevate the risk […]

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 cell can divide, according to […]

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 tempts to show irreparable harm […]

Trials of an experimental drug which helps slow down the loss of vision caused by diabetes have had very optimistic results.
Diabetic retinopathy is recognized as the leading cause of blindness in the working aged population and results in enormous human and financial costs; at present laser treatments are used to treat the disease.
It is a […]

Peripheral Neuropathy is one of the most common diseases most people have never heard of (15-20 million Americans have it). Caused by deterioration of the peripheral nerves, this disease disrupts the body’s ability to communicate with its muscles, organs and tissues. It is like the body’s wiring system going haywire, causing unusual or unpleasant irritations […]

More than one out of every three individuals in the United States has diabetes or impaired fasting glucose, a condition that increases the risk of developing diabetes, new study findings suggest.The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes has increased in recent years, while undiagnosed diabetes and impaired fasting glucose has remained constant over the past decade.
“Despite public […]

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 said Schering-Plough Corp. has terminated […]

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 skin of black grapes. It […]

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 and Drug Administration said.
“The counterfeit […]

Researchers at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, have found that a protein (neuregulin-1 type III, or NRG1-III) essential for the protective wrapping around a nerve’s central wiring, or axons, also determines its fate.
Just as plastic coatings insulate electrical wires, myelin coats nerve fibers. This fatty substance also […]

While most of us have gotten our glucose meters for free, everyone knows it’s the strips that cost us. Many “top-of-the line” units cost nearly $1.00 a piece for test strips.
I have found one, the ReliOn Ultima, which sells at Wal-Mart for $8.88 (You can also call them at 800.992.3612 and get a free testing […]

U.S. patients and doctors alike show a surprising level of ignorance about diabetes and are not doing nearly enough to manage the condition, diabetes experts said Wednesday.
A survey found that although patients believe they understand diabetes, they are not doing what they need to do to control it, and their doctors are unable to help […]