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 [...]
