Recent Diabetes Articles

Diabetes is an illness in which the body cannot automatically control the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood. A diabetic either fails to produce enough insulin — a hormone made by the pancreas needed to transport glucose to muscles and other tissues to provide energy — or they cannot use their own insulin effectively. The two main types of diabetes are Type I and Type II.

Medical News Today - Diabetes can be a killer, but the recent findings of four Texas A&M University researchers could lead to new ways to study and fight the dreaded disease. Diabetics not only have high blood glucose (sugar) levels, they also have elevated fatty acid ...

Bloomberg - Obesity, linked to heart disease, diabetes and dementia, was associated with the cancers by looking for a connection between weight and the disease several studies. Worldwide cancer killed 7.6 million people last year, according to the American ...

Boston Globe - Coffee has also been praised as a prevention for diabetes in Minnesota and cursed as a risk for diabetics in North Carolina, but I am in Massachusetts. On my place mat is a bowl of antioxidants formerly known as blueberries. These round little health ...

Chicago Sun-Times - ... in $5 commemorative cups before a 7 p.m. toast Thursday at Harry Caray's to honor the 10th anniversary of baseball legend Harry ("Bud man/Cub fan") Caray's death. • • The kicker: Proceeds from these purchases will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes ...

Science Daily - ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2008) — Interim results from the ADVANCE Study, involving 11,140 high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes, provide no evidence of an increased risk of death among those patients receiving intensive treatment to lower blood ...

San Francisco Gate - Asthma and diabetes disproportionately affect residents of public housing. So while the long-promised overhaul of blighted housing projects and the mayor's new idea of making them more like Tenderloin-style supportive housing float around in the ...

Reuters UK - GSK shares have been battered in recent sessions after Europe's biggest drugmaker warned that 2008 earnings would fall due to sliding sales of diabetes drug Avandia and more generic competition. Shares in Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca have also ...

Forbes - Seven of these projects are currently in late-stage development, while three are poised to expand into other risk factors such as diabetes. - Major diabetes combination product launch strategies are concentrated in franchise development across ...

Medical News Today - Investigators in the ADVANCE Study, an international study involving 11,140 high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes, announced that their study provides no evidence of an increased risk of death among those patients receiving intensive treatment to ...