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New York City has a higher occurrence of diabetes than the rest of the nation, with one in eight New Yorkers suffering from the disease, according to a report by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
The report also shows that over 100,000 city residents have diabetes that is seriously out of control, and […]
According to a report in the journal Diabetes, Japanese researchers have found that colestimide, a resin that binds and eliminates bile acids, appears to provide an effective treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes, at least in mice.
Researchers from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, and from Kinki University School of […]
I’ve made the acquaintance of some cool people as a result of my beedies (and not just my hot doctor, either), and one of my favorites is Amy Tenderich, of Diabetes Mine, a diabetes blog that’s actually, you know, informative. She recently won the LillyforLife Achievement Award for Diabetes Journalism, after all. (Personally, […]
A portable blood glucose device called A1cNow, which tracks blood sugar levels over several months’ time, has been found to provide inaccurate and inconsistent test results for children with type 1 diabetes, according to a report in the journal Diabetes Care.
The monitor records hemoglobin A1c, measuring a long-term residual reading from blood cells rather than […]
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will discuss his own struggle with diabetes and his work to change his state’s approach to healthcare on CNBC’s dLifeTV, the first and only national weekly television series devoted entirely to diabetes. The program will air this Sunday, January 21 at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific.
“I did this to myself,” says […]
Danish pharmaceutical maker Novo Nordisk has announced that it will cease research and development in small molecules for oral diabetes treatment, divesting existing projects such as NN9101 (a glucokinase activator project which is currently in phase 1 clinical testing). The company plans to focus its resources on therapeutic proteins, as it has done since […]
Okay, so today’s Theme Day topic is Best of 2006. I didn’t think I could actually do a Top Ten list, since really, I wrote about eleven posts total in 2006, but turns out I liked about ten of them after all. A pattern has developed here, in that the ones I enjoyed […]
The American Diabetes Association today urged the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (H.R. 3), which would ease the existing restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available for use in federally-funded research while maintaining strict ethical guidelines. The legislation was passed by Congress last […]
The American Diabetes Association has selected 15 year-old Justin Harris of Lexington, Kentucky to serve as the group’s 2006-2007 National Youth Advocate, according to an announcement at the organization’s 3rd annual Community Volunteer Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas. Harris will serve for a year as a spokesperson for the ADA, meeting with policy makers, […]
With the disclaimer that I am not in any way compensated by any company for saying this and merely pass it along because I know this is a product beloved by many, many diabetics, I would like to report the following:
Wal-Mart has the big, one liter bottles of Propel Fitness Water for a buck each.
No […]
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