An estimated 300 000 Georgians, or nearly one in twelve, suffer from diabetes. Now, the government is taking measures to combat the incurable metabolic disorder. On August 22, deputy Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs Davit Meskhishvili, joined by director of the National Diabetes Center Ramaz Kurashvili, held a press conference to announce the [...]
As medicine struggles to halt the nation’s diabetes epidemic, scientists have found a potential new weapon in the most unlikely place — the skeleton. Bone cells, they discovered, generate a hormone that helps regulate the body’s metabolism. And the lack of that hormone appears to contribute to the development of diabetes. The work, conducted in [...]
Diabetes can be a killer, causing heart and vascular problems – and now scientists think they know why. Diabetics are likely to be deficient in thiamine (vitamin B1), and it is this that makes diabetes – both types I and II – such a serious condition. Researchers from Warwick University have found that diabetics have [...]
Men, eat your whole grains. Especially if you’re middle-aged or older, and you want to decrease your risk of getting Type II diabetes. Increasing your intake of whole grains will help, says a study in the issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Eating whole grains might even help compensate for other risks. Obesity [...]
Overweight cats who spend more time sleeping on the sofa than chasing mice face a growing risk of developing diabetes, researchers in Scotland said on Tuesday. Pampered fat cats are three times more likely to develop the potentially fatal condition than cats of a normal weight, according to a study by the University of Edinburgh. [...]
Researchers are testing a new diabetes medication that works unlike others currently available. Barbara Clark was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes nearly ten years ago. She remembers her initial symptoms well: “I was tired. I was cranky. I was hungry and then not so hungry. I was thirsty all the time,” she said. It took a [...]
People with diabetes are far more likely to suffer from sexual problems and the anxiety and frustration that come as part of the territory. But you don’t have to suffer in silence. Cialis, Viagra, and Levitra (vardenafil) are 3 major FDA approved medications that treats ED but there is no cure for this yet. “I [...]
A Missouri man who took the antibiotic Tequin is suing Bristol-Meyers Squibb and Schering Corporation for blood sugar problems he developed while taking the drug. Patrick Bills alleges that he developed both hyperglycemia and new onset diabetes while taking Tequin for a skin infection. Tequin, a once-popular antibiotic, was introduced by Bristol Myers Squibb in 1999 [...]
Researchers have accomplished what might be a cure of type 1 diabetes — at least in mice — and they’re taking the first steps toward a human trial.Type 1 diabetes is the autoimmune form of the disease, affecting about five percent of diabetics. It usually emerges in childhood and occurs when the body’s immune system [...]
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. said it received tentative approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration for the company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application for Repaglinide Tablets USP. The Detroit-based generic drug company said Repaglinide works by lowering the blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes whose hyperglycemia can’t be controlled properly by diet [...]
