Diabetes News
27th June 2011
Monitor Your Blood Sugars While You Drive
Medtronic and Ford Motor Company have teamed up to develop a prototype device that will allow people with diabetes to monitor their blood glucose levels as they drive
5th April 2011
Insulin could be Alzheimers therapy
A low dose of insulin has been found to suppress the expression in the blood of four precursor proteins involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, according to new clinical research by University at Buffalo endocrinologists. The research, published in March online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, suggests that insulin could have a powerful, new role to play in fighting Alzheimer's disease.
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1st April 2011
Some Type 1 Diabetics Seem Shielded Against Complications
The study found that in one group that had diabetes for 50 years, many never developed expected problems
>> Link to article in HealthDay (MedlinePlus)
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Feb 2011
Suspension of Avandia (rosiglitazone) from New Zealand market
Diabetes medicine rosiglitazone will be withdrawn from the New Zealand market on 29 April 2011 after a safety review found an elevated risk of cardiovascular events in patients treated with this medicine.
>> Article by Ministry of Health
22nd
Feb 2011
Link between Enterovirus infection and Type 1 diabetes in childhood
Children with Type 1 diabetes are nearly 10 times as likely to also have a viral infection than healthy children, Australian research suggests.
Childhood diabetes has been linked to enteroviruses, which can lead to cold, flu and even meningitis. However the review of 26 existing studies by a group in Australia, published in the British Medical Journal, does not prove that the virus causes diabetes.
Read the original article in BMJ.