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Diabetes Notes

January 2nd, 2008

Hello To You… ED And Chronic Pain Blogs Join Our Mix Here!

I would like to officially welcome our 2 newest bloggers here at the science and health channel. We have a fellow nurse and writer Marijke at Help my Hurt, all about pain management and the essentials of living with chronic pain, and there is Angelique, I love that name, at Breaking the Mirror which is […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 0 comments

September 27th, 2007

Alzheimer’s Disease Coined “Type 3 Diabetes”?

Now scientists at Northwestern University have discovered why brain insulin signaling — crucial for memory formation — would stop working in Alzheimer’s disease. They have shown that a toxic protein found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, rendering those neurons insulin resistant. (The protein, known to attack memory-forming […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 7 comments

July 9th, 2007

Good Monday, My Diabetic Friends…

Happy Monday to y’all! I don’t have a whole lot of new diabetic news today. There was no new medication nor research studies published in the last few days, after all it is vacation season, right? And I don’t have too much to offer in my personal diabetic life, except I think I […]

By Kendra James, RN -- 1 comment