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A Growth Factor Reverses Nerve Damage In Diabetic Animals
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St. Louis, Nov 1 (Washington University School Of Medicine) -- A recent study reveals that long-term nerve damage in rats with diabetes can be reversed by treatment with an insulin-like protein.
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Ann Landers is Educated about Diabetes by Readers
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In today's Washington Post , Ann Landers was educated by most readers about Diabetes and insulin injections in public places. This was in response to a November 1998 column in which Ann agreed with a writer that Diabetics should not inject or test themselves in a public place.
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Asia Faces Diabetes Explosion
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Aug 19, 1999 (BBC) -- There will be a massive increase in the number of people with diabetes - and particularly in China and India - over the next 15 years, the head of a biotechnology company has predicted.
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Bayer Introduces "No Strip" Testing Meter for Diabetics in USA
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y., March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation, Diagnostics Division today announced the U.S. availability of the Glucometer(R) DEX(R) Diabetes Care System, America's only "no-strip" blood glucose meter that allows people with diabetes to perform 10 tests with a single cartridge stored in the meter. This eliminates the need to carry and handle separate test
strips when testing blood glucose levels. With this added convenience, the Glucometer DEX System represents a significant advance for the nearly 16 million people with diabetes, for whom frequent monitoring is recommended to
help reduce serious health complications, such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and blindness.
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Bio-Engineered Skin Heals Problem Wounds
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Thousands of people with poor blood circulation suffer from leg or foot ulcers, wounds that often refuse to heal despite constant medical attention. For the first time in 100 years a new kind of treatment is now available -- a bio-engineered skin product made from living tissue. Includes a RealVideo report.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Files New Drug Application for Novel Oral Antidiabetic Drug
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PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of an ongoing commitment to extend and enhance the lives of patients with type 2 diabetes, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced today that a regulatory application
has been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to gain marketing approval for a novel oral antidiabetic drug.
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Cell Therapy Research for Diabetes Gets Boost from a Lottery
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In an unusual funding protocol, a diabetes research project sponsored by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's United Kingdom affiliate and endorsed by JDF, has been funded by a British lottery grant.
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CNN Video Report: Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise in Children
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Obesity has been directly linked to the onset of type 2 diabetes, a disease that usually hits people in their 30s or 40s. But with one in five children in the United States now said to be overweight, some studies indicate the number of young people with type 2 diabetes has quadrupled in recent years.
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Depression a Factor in Diabetes
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Depression, anxiety and stress can have a profound effect on the ability of people with diabetes to control blood sugar levels, researchers have found.
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Diabetes Discovery
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National Public Radio RealAudio report on new fungus compound that may eventually replace insulin injections with pills. Also see the related story, Insulin Without Needles?.
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Diabetes Joins List of Heart Disease Risk Factors
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ATLANTA, Sep 2 (CNN) -- Smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure already are considered major contributors to cardiovascular disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States. Now the American Heart Association, based on convincing evidence, has added diabetes to the list of controllable risk factors for heart disease and strokes.
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Diabetes Therapy May Impair Memory Function In Children
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Washington University School of Medicine, Oct 7 -- Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Washington in Seattle have found evidence of slight memory impairment in children receiving intensive therapy (IT) for insulin-dependent diabetes.
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Diabetex Unveils Diabetes Treatment At Annual ADA Convention
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DALLAS, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Diabetes Association annual convention in San Diego, California, this week, Diabetex announced that Advanced Metabolic Technologies is now offering to train and equip endocrinologists to deliver a proven successful treatment for diabetic kidney disease and other malaise of diabetes, following the successful conclusion of the Diabetes Research institute studies on Diabetic Kidney Disease.
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Enhanced Insulin Response Achieved From Exendin-4
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, today reported a potent, enhanced insulin response following exendin-4
administration in a study of people with type 2 diabetes.
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Experimental Peptides Prevent Diabetes And Halt Its Progression
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August 3, 1999 (University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine) -- Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used injections of protein fragments to prevent the development of type-I diabetes in a strain of mice that develop the disease.
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FDA asked to tighten regulation of 'functional foods"
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(CNN) -- A consumer group Thursday called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to tighten controls over foods that make unproven claims about the health benefits of added herbal medicines, amino acids, plant extracts, and other unconventional ingredients.
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First Gene Defect Identified For Precursor To Adult Diabetes
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University Of California, Sep 3 -- Scientists have identified the first genetic defect linked to insulin resistance, a precursor to most of the 15 million cases of adult diabetes in the United States. The research helps clarify the murky understanding of what causes insulin resistance and diabetes.
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Free Eye Exams Available in November for Diabetics without Health Insurance
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MIAMI, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Gladys Knight, "The Diva of Soul," and the Florida Optometric Association Charities are launching a statewide blindness prevention project -- The Diabetes Eye Disease Education & Examination Program. Its goal is to urge all Floridians with diabetes to have annual eye disease examinations.
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Free Foot Screenings for Patients with Diabetes
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American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, Oct 26 (Newswise) -- In recognition of American Diabetes Month, the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) will sponsor a series of free diabetic foot screenings Nov. 8-14 at locations throughout the country.
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Free Foot, Eye and Blood Pressure Screenings During November, American Diabetes Month
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- During November, American Diabetes Month, the American Diabetes Association is appealing to the 10.3 million Americans that have been diagnosed with diabetes to learn how to aggressively manage their diabetes and, specifically, to learn how to prevent or delay three of the most common complications of diabetes -- blindness, lower limb amputations and heart disease.
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Gene Hope for Hearts
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Monday, August 2, 1999 (BBC) -- A gene therapy that causes new blood vessels to grow around blocked arteries has been found to be safe for use in humans.
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Gene Therapy Could Treat Diabetic Incontinence
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WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) have successfully controlled incontinence in an animal model of diabetes using a modified herpes virus to shuttle a
therapeutic gene into damaged bladder nerves.
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