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 [...]
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 [...]
A diet rich in fiber from cereals and in magnesium may help lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, German researchers report. Ann Albright, president-elect for health care and education at the American Diabetes Association, said the suggestion that fiber from cereal might be better than fiber from fruits and vegetables in preventing type [...]
A study by a researcher at the University of Wisconsin (UW) has discovered that topical honey can heal diabetes sores completely. Jennifer Eddy of UW Health’s Eau Claire Family Medicine Clinic, who treated her borderline diabetic patient Catrina Hurlburt with honey therapy, said that Hurlburt’s case is a good example of the ‘potential health care [...]
An herb long-used in traditional Indian medicine may help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the herb, called Salacia oblonga, reduced post-meal blood sugar surges in 66 men and women with type 2 diabetes. Also known as Saptrangi and Ponkoranti, S. oblonga is from a [...]
A new charity-biz collaboration is testing proteins that could prevent the immune system from destroying insulin secreting cells and help prevent the onset of diabetes. MediGene has signed a two year deal with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). The charity will pay €250,000 to help the Germany-headquartered biotech company advance its monoclonal T cell [...]
Eli Lilly and company launched a new tool in the fight to manage diabetes. It is a pen that delivers insulin and it will keep a log of your most recent doses. Twenty-three-year-old financial planner Jonathan Bostrom knows how important keeping track of details is to his professional life and to managing his diabetes. “I [...]
Children are at risk from serious health problems due to weaknesses in diabetes care in the UK, a report has warned today. The study of nationwide services from the charity Diabetes UK argues that although there have been improvements in some services, such as retinal screening, gaps in care remain in others. Children are particularly [...]
