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Sri Lankan Diabetes Centre Awarded International Diabetes Federation Grant
Categorie : DiabetesThe International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has chosen the National Diabetes Centre of Sri Lanka (NDC) as one of the 11 first funding recipients of its translational research grant programme, BRIDGES, from over 108 global applications. The National Diabetes Centre project was awarded $399,670 USD by ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Diabetes Drugs' Side Benefit May Be Explained By New Insight Into Blood Pressure Control
Categorie : DiabetesDrugs known as thiazolidinediones (TZDs), which are used to treat type 2 diabetes, seem to come with an added side benefit: They lower blood pressure. Now, researchers reporting in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, provide new evidence as to why. ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Simple Test To Unlock The Diabetes Roulette In Children
Categorie : DiabetesUniversity of Queensland researchers are developing a simple test that may predict whether a child will develop Type 1 diabetes. Professor Ranjeny Thomas and her colleagues from UQ's Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, have identified a cellular pathway known as NF-ka ...
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Wed Mar 2008
New National Clinical Director For Diabetes, UK
Categorie : DiabetesDr Rowan Hillson MBE has been appointed the new National Clinical Director for Diabetes, Health Minister Ann Keen announced. Dr Hillson is a consultant Physician and Diabetologist at The Hillingdon Hospital, London, where she and colleagues have established a very successful local diabetes s ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Maternal Diabetes Causes Damage To Offspring's Beta Cell Functions
Categorie : DiabetesThelink between a woman's maternal diabetes and her child's increased riskfor diabetic complications is one step closer to being understood.According to recent research performed at the University if Louisville,there are many functional and metabolic changes that occur in such achild's pancreatic β ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Specialist Nurses Could Save NHS 100 Million Pounds, UK
Categorie : DiabetesIntroducing Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSNs) in Emergency Medical Units could reduce the NHS deficit (£623 million) by almost £100 million. This is the finding of research presented today at Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference in Glasgow. ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Paradoxical Frog's Leap Forward For Diabetes
Categorie : DiabetesSkin secretions from South America's Paradoxical frog could be used to treat Type 2 diabetes, according to research announced this week at Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference in Glasgow. Scientists from the University of Ulster and United Arab Emirates University have been studying the insu ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Type 2 Diabetes May Be Caused By Intestinal Dysfunction
Categorie : DiabetesGrowing evidence shows that surgery may effectively cure Type 2 diabetes -- an approach that not only may change the way the disease is treated, but that introduces a new way of thinking about diabetes.A new article -- published in a special supplement to the February issue of Diabetes Care by a lea ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Synvista Therapeutics Highlights Newly Published Data Demonstrating The Value Of Haptoglobin Genotype Testing In People With Diabetes
Categorie : DiabetesSynvista Therapeutics, Inc. (Amex: SYI) announces the publication of a pre-planned sub-analysis from the ICARE study demonstrating that the addition of vitamin E to statin therapy prevented more cardiovascular events (heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death) than statin therapy alone in pa ...
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Wed Mar 2008
American Diabetes Association Shines Additional Light On Diabetes Prevention And Treatment Worldwide: Adds ADA Event Knowledge To Ekatius
Categorie : DiabetesThe American Diabetes Association (ADA), a world-recognized nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy, has reached an agreement with Conference Archives, Inc. (CAI) to deliver the ADA's event knowledge to a global audience through Ekatius?. ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Low GI Diets Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes And Heart Disease
Categorie : DiabetesThe first meta-analysis to evaluate the association between the GI (glycemic index) and GL (glycemic load) of the diet, and the risk of developing common lifestyle-related diseases was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition March 1 [2008; 87 (3)]. The study provides compelling evide ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Alkermes Provides Update On Inhaled Insulin Program
Categorie : DiabetesAlkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today issued the following update on AIR® Inhaled Insulin (AIR® Insulin), which is being developed in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly): Lilly has informed Alkermes that it is evaluating its business case for AIR Insulin and Alkermes expects Lilly to make ...
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Wed Mar 2008
New Method Can Revolutionise Diabetes Research
Categorie : DiabetesScientists at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Miami have developed a method for studying complicated cell processes, such as the secretion of insulin in the pancreas, of living animals - something that has not been possible to this date. ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Announces That The SUN-MICRO Phase 3 Clinical Trial Failed To Meet Its Primary Efficacy Endpoint
Categorie : DiabetesKeryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: KERX) announced top-line results from its SUN-MICRO Phase 3 clinical trial of Sulonex (sulodexide) for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. The Company announced that this Phase 3 clinical trial failed to meet the primary objective of the study, which was to ...
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Wed Mar 2008
'Fasting Switch' Disabled By Chronically Elevated Blood Sugar Levels
Categorie : DiabetesContinually revved up insulin production, the kind that results from overeating and obesity, slowly dulls the body's response to insulin. As a result, blood sugar levels start to creep up, setting the stage for diabetes-associated complications such as blindness, stroke and renal failure. To make ma ...
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Wed Mar 2008
FDA Accepts Investigational New Drug Application For ARI-2243 And A First In Man Clinical Trial Set To Begin During The First Half Of 2008
Categorie : DiabetesArisaph Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held drug discovery biopharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company's recently submitted Investigational New Drug (IND) application to evaluate ARI-2243 in a phase I clinical trial in healthy ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Very Early Indicator Of Type 2 Diabetes Is Low Levels Of PYY Hormone
Categorie : DiabetesIt may soon be possible to take a simple blood test and predict whether or not someone has low levels of a particular molecule, predisposing them to the development of Type 2 diabetes. If the test is positive, it may then be possible to use preventative treatment, slowing down, or even halting that ...
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Wed Mar 2008
University Of Pittsburgh Researchers Crack The Code Of 3-D Protein Structure That May Help Fight Obesity And Diabetes
Categorie : DiabetesUsing X-ray crystallography, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine led by structural biologist Joanne I. Yeh, Ph.D., have become the first to decipher the three-dimensional structure of a membrane-bound enzyme that plays a crucial role in glycerol metabolism - a discovery th ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Birmingham Men Twice As Likely To Have Diabetes, UK
Categorie : DiabetesThe rate of diabetes in men from Birmingham is twice as high as the UK average, according to research revealed at Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference in Glasgow. The new statistics show that 14.7 per cent (6,668) of men over the age of 40 have diabetes in Birmingham, compared to the nationa ...
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Wed Mar 2008
Hospital Heart Admissions High For People With Diabetes
Categorie : DiabetesThe number of heart attacks in people with Type 2 diabetes has doubled over the last ten years, according to the latest figures revealed at Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference in Glasgow. People with diabetes account for 13.9 per cent of all hospital admissions for heart attacks (12,824 inc ...
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Wed Mar 2008
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