A new drug for people with a certain type of diabetes will treat the condition without some of the common side-effects of existing drugs, a pharmaceutical firm said today. Merck Sharp & Dohme Ireland today launched its drug Januvia, which it said was the first new class of medicine for the treatment of type 2 [...]
Using a simple portion control dinner plate can help people with type 2 diabetes lose weight and decrease reliance on medication, research shows. Canadian researchers put people with type 2 diabetes on a calorie-controlled diet for six months. They found 17% of those who used a calibrated diet plate lost more than 5% of their [...]
Giving children with type 1 diabetes an infusion of blood saved from their own umbilical cords helped reduce the severity of their disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said the blood — which is rich in immune regulatory cells — may re-start the children’s immune systems, but the effect likely will not last and [...]
June 20, 2007 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The widow and son of a Texas man who was taking a GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes drug at the time of his fatal heart attack has sued the drugmaker, claiming that it failed to warn of the drug’s heart risks, according to court papers. The claim involves rosiglitazon?, which [...]
The rate of premature death among American men with diabetes has dropped dramatically over the last few decades, but the same can’t be said for women with the disease, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. The proportion of early deaths among diabetic women remained unchanged between 1971 and 2000, [...]
A diagnosis of diabetes means losing an average of eight years from your expected life span, new research suggests. In addition, diabetics are more likely to develop heart disease sooner than non-diabetics, the study found. “Having diabetes at age 50 years and over does not only represent a significant increase in the risk of developing [...]
HOUSEHOLD chores such as ironing and washing dirty dishes can lower the risk of diabetes by themselves, new Australian research suggests. Scientists found that very light exercise that barely affects the heart rate is vigorous enough to help control blood glucose levels. This is the first study to prove that routine daily tasks could independently [...]
1 cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced 2 small zucchini, thinly sliced 2 carrots, peeled and thinly sliced 4 large white mushrooms, chopped 4 green onions, chopped 1 clove garlic, chopped 4 (10-inch) fat-free flour tortillas 1/2 C fat-free cream cheese In a small bowl, combine all vegetables. Thinly spread 1 tbsp cream cheese on [...]
Scientists at Swansea University’s School of Medicine have been awarded more than £93,000 by the BUPA Foundation to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate disappearance of diabetes in patients. 95% of morbidly obese people – those with a Body Mass Index of over 40 – have Type 2 diabetes, sometimes known [...]
Diabetes is recognised as one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. It is a chronic disease with a substantial elevation in the circulating blood sugar. The major mode of control of diabetes is usually by diet, exercise and insulin replacement therapy and by the use of herbal agents able to [...]
