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This is my last entry for Diabetes Notes, I’m sad to say. I wanted to take a moment and deliver a proper goodbye to all of you who’ve been reading and making this so much fun to do.
When I first started writing for this blog, I had only recently been diagnosed with diabetes. […]
Women who take the diabetes drugs Avandia, Avandamet or Avandaryl may be more like to suffer bone fractures than patients taking other diabetes drugs, according to the FDA and GlaxoSmithKilne, maker of the drugs.
All three drugs include the active ingredient rosiglitazone. GlaxoSmithKilne informed doctors of the risk of bone fracture in a recent letter, […]
The American Diabetes Association will be sponsoring the 19th annual American Diabetes Alert Day on March 27, 2007.
The event is a one-day “wake-up call” intended to inform the American public about the seriousness of diabetes, particularly when it is left undiagnosed or untreated. Persons at risk for type 2 diabetes (and if you […]
According to a report in the journal Diabetes Care, men with testosterone levels in the low to normal range and more prone to develop diabetes than those with higher levels, regardless of obesity.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that men with the lowest levels of testosterone were four times more likely […]
My wife brought home Girl Scout cookies today.
And I might have eaten a few of them.
Well, come on. Thin Mints? I’m not made of stone.
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The steady rise in the number of diabetics worldwide is leading to increased demand for products that treat the dry skin conditions often associated with the disease. 41 million Americans are estimated to have impaired glucose tolerance, a pre-diabetic condition which often results in dry, itchy skin.
Dry skin conditions in diabetics can lead to […]
The Food and Drug Administration will review Merck’s plan to market their drug Januvia and the older, generic drug metformin as a combination that together may decrease blood sugar levels in diabetics. A ruling is expected by October.
Merck is developing a combination of the two drugs in a single pill that it plans to […]
I hope all you fellow weak-willed diabetics survived Valentine’s Day with a minimum of sorrow. Your choices were to either endure a blood sugar spike by stealing your kid’s candy out of her school valentine haul, or choke down heart-shaped slabs of tofu.
I think you know which option I picked.
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A team of scientists from a number of international institutions has discovered four points on the map of the human gene that are responsible for 70 percent of the genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes, according to a report in the journal Nature.
The causes of type 2 diabetes are still unknown, but opinion varies greatly […]
When I saw that this month’s Science and Health theme day topic was “love”, I thought “Uh oh, there’s probably only one topic that will really lend itself to diabetes and love, and that’s the one that nobody except my television seem to want to talk about.
But okay, let’s talk about it. Let’s talk […]
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