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According to the New England Journal of Medicine, transplanting islet cells from the pancreases of dead people into type 1 diabetics allowed many of them - 21 out of 36 subjects - to stop taking insulin.
Unfortunately, after two years, 76 percent of the patients once again required insulin, according tot he researchers at the University […]
Harvard researchers have determined that hormonal therapy used to treat prostate cancer may raise the risk of diabetes and health disease, according to an article in the Journal of Oncology.
“This study shows that a common hormonal treatment for prostate cancer may put men at significant risk for other serious diseases,” said Harvard’s Dr. Nancy Keating. […]
Revising estimates it made only three years ago, the Centers for Disease Control now predicts that 48.3 million Americans will have diabetes by the year 2050. That’s triple the number of people who have diabetes today and 9.3 million more than the CDC’s 2003 forecast.
“The numbers are very worrying,” says Dr. K.M. Venkat Narayan, […]
I realize this is the last thing a lot of you want to read about (I know it because some of you are nice enough to tell me), but I have a bit of good news about the Beedies. Well, my Beedies in particular. Can’t help you with yours, sorry.
There is a test for long-term […]
I’d like to take a moment to congratulate Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine for winner of this year’s LillyforLife Achievement Award for diabetes journalism.
Established by the pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company in 2002, the LillyforLife Achievement Awards celebrate the work of people who either live with diabetes or contribute to the lives of those […]
In accordance with the Science and Health Theme Day subject of “Top Ten Lists”, I thought I’d dispense with all the boring “useful information” or “actual facts” and instead give you a useless and most likely punchy list off the top of my head. Apologies in advance. I’ll call it…
Top Ten Things No […]
A controversial procedure known as xenotransplantation, in which pig cells are transplanted into human Type 1 diabetics, has been put on hold by the International Xenotransplantation Association, which monitors animal to human transplants. The organization there is insufficient evidence that the process is safe for human subjects.
The procedure was developed by prominent Mexican transplant […]
A Brazilian woman with diabetes has given birth to a 14-pound baby girl. The infant is so large that her feet reach over the edge of her crib.
Elisa Maia dos Ribeiro, 36, already has three sons who were large at birth (over nine pounds), but none came close to the birth weight of Isabel […]
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