When should an annoying health complication become a serious concern? When you suspect you could be at risk developing diabetes. Although the causes of diabetes are unknown, knowing your risk factors could save your life. At 17-years-old, Paul Cootes, Jr. is a diabetic. “You don’t take life for granted anymore,” said Cootes. Four years ago, [...]
A team from the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Complementary Medicine Research (CompleMED) is working with the Cardiac Health Institute to find out if the medicinal mushroom, Ganoderma lucidum, can reduce high blood sugar, often a precursor to diabetes – as well as treat other health problems. The clinical trial is the first of [...]
India is on the threshold of launching an oral vaccine for diabetes that would replace the current practice of insulin injections, promising relief to millions in the country suffering from the debilitating health condition. The Andhra Pradesh-based pharmaceutical company Transgene Biotek Ltd is currently doing research and pre-clinical trials of the vaccine in collaboration with [...]
DiaKine Therapeutics, Inc. and AdPharma, Inc. today announced an agreement to develop a pipeline of drugs aimed at reversing diabetes. The first drug in the pipeline is Lisofylline (LSF), an immune modulating compound that has reversed type 1 diabetes in mice in combination with another agent. DiaKine plans to take its immune modulator, LSF, to [...]
A new treatment for type 2 diabetes is helping patients not only get their blood sugar under control but can also help them lose weight. The medication is currently being trialled in Australian patients. Frank Thorne could not get his diabetes under control using standard medications. He volunteered for a trial at Sydney’s Royal Prince [...]
The FDA approved BYETTA (exenatide) injection as an add-on therapy to improve blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes who have not achieved adequate control on a thiazolidinedione, or TZD. The drug was approved for use with two other diabetes treatments, metformin, sulfonylureas, in 2005.In a clinical trial designed to evaluate BYETTA for [...]
It’s being called a breakthrough treatment for people suffering painful and debilitating nerve damage from diabetes. One man almost had to have his foot amputated, but a local doctor — one of a few in the nation — changed his life. Three months ago, Edwynne Murphy could barely walk. Living with diabetes for more than [...]
