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According to the U.S. government, most adults with diabetes fail to get three annual medical tests recommended for diabetics.
The three tests include the Hemoglobin A1c, which tests blood sugar averages for the previous two to three months; dilated eye exam, in which the patient’s pupils are dilated in order to allow an eye doctor to […]
In a study related to the Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project, researchers at Harvard Medical School announced that they have used gene-chip technology to identify a gene that appears to be linked to type 2 diabetes.
The gene has been dubbed “ARNT” by researchers. In studies of mice, subjects that did not possess the ARNT gene […]
For the second year running, California romance-suspense novelist Brenda Novak has established an auction to assist aspiring romance authors while raising money for diabetes research. One of her five children is diabetic.
In addition to donated items such as autographed books by established authors like Nora Roberts and Nick Hornby, the auction will also feature […]
Officials with the European Union warn that the number of diabetics in Europe could nearly triple to 60 million in the next twenty years unless a concentrated effort to increase exercise and improve diets is made by member states. Of the twenty-five EU member states, fourteen have not yet put in place any national […]
You know, it’s easy to feel like a gimp and a loser when you have diabetes. There’s the change in lifestyle, the loss of all your favorite foods (”okay, you can have ONE chocolate chip, but don’t blame me if you slip into a coma”) and the general feeling that you just aged twenty […]
Okay, so I was looking at my past few posts, and while it might seem like a no brainer of an observation, it occurred to me that wow, this sure is a mopey, serious subject. Well, yeah. I never claimed to be a smart guy.
So I thought it might be fun to go […]
The University of Michigan has announced that for the next two years, it will provide diabetes medicines for free to about 2000 employees and families, in an attempt to avoid more costly and serious complications down the road.
“Diabetes is an area where we know that good control can have a huge, huge benefit down the […]
Manhunt.com recently ran a feature on Aaron Perry, who at 42 is the first African-American insulin dependent diabetic to complete the Wisconsin Ironman triathlon. The event consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bicycle ride, and a 26.2 mile run. And then at the end, he has to kill a grizzly […]
In an announcement that should surprise exactly nobody, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the incidence of self-reported diabetes has risen dramatically in the past six years, attributable primarily to obesity.
From 1997 to 2003, the incidence of self-reported, diagnosed type 2 diabetes rose 41 percent in almost all groups of people, but […]
According to the The Independent, scientists at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in San Diego have developed a cocktail of two different drugs which they say can reverse diabetes.
The combination of a monoclonal antibody (to settle the body’s immune system) with a peptide (acting as a vaccine to protect the cells that produce […]
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