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'Double Diabetes' Poses Double Threat
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MONDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- It's a scene occurring with increasing frequency in doctors' offices across America: A patient, usually overweight, comes in with all the symptoms of obesity-linked type 2 diabetes.
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Alzheimer's Could Be Diabetes-like Illness, Study Suggests
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Could Alzheimer's be a form of diabetes? That's the tantalizing suggestion from a new study that finds insulin production in the brain declines as Alzheimer's disease advances.
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Diabetes Drug Pulls Double Duty
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- An established drug for type 2 diabetes has a beneficial effect on cardiovascular health, reducing the risk of a second heart attack in diabetic patients by 28 percent.
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Diabetes Raises Colon Cancer Risk
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TUESDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- People with diabetes -- long known to be at higher risk for heart disease, kidney failure and eye and foot trouble -- now have one more thing to be concerned about: A new study finds they are also more vulnerable to colon cancer.
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Drug Improves Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes
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THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The diabetes drug pioglitazone can reduce the risk of death, heart attack and stroke in high-risk type 2 diabetes patients, a new study finds.
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Drug-Coated Stents Better for Diabetics
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MONDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Drug-coated stents are better for diabetic patients than the older bare metal tubes inserted to keep blood flowing after the artery-opening procedure called angioplasty, Spanish cardiologists report.
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Fasting Glucose Levels May Not Be Best Indicator of Diabetes Risk
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Blood sugar levels at the high end of "normal," coupled with other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, may help identify apparently healthy men at increased risk of the disease, a new Israeli study suggests.
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FDA Approves Inhaled Insulin for Diabetes
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FRIDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Exubera, the first inhaled insulin treatment for diabetes, won approval from U.S. regulatory officials on Friday.
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FDA OKs New Oral Drug for Type 2 Diabetes
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TUESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- People suffering from type 2 diabetes now have a new weapon in their arsenal. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced the approval of Januvia (sitagliptin phosphate) oral tablets, the first in a new class of drugs known as DPP-4 inhibitors.
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FTC & FDA Act Against Internet Vendors of Fraudulent Diabetes Cures & Treatments
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Costa Mesa, CA, USA - Medical Industry E-mail News Service™ - OCT 19, 2006 -- Today the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), working with government agencies in Mexico and Canada, launched a drive to stop deceptive Internet advertisements and sales of products misrepresented as cures or treatments for diabetes.
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New Diabetes Drug Poses Danger to Patients, Cardiologists Say
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THURSDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- A diabetes drug about to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doubles the risk of death, heart attack and stroke, and it should not be approved until its safety is further explored, a team of prominent cardiologists reports.
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No Link Between Diabetes, Aggressive Prostate Cancer
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MONDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Type 2 diabetes has no effect on the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, but prostate cancer patients with diabetes do have poorer long-term survival rates, U.S. researchers report.
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Pramlintide improves blood sugar levels diabetics
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pramlintide treatment, taken with insulin, improves blood sugar fluctuations after meals and also reduces weight in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a report in the Diabetes Care.
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Strict Blood Sugar Control Cuts Diabetes Heart Risk
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A 20-year study of people with type 1 diabetes shows that tight control of blood sugar levels cuts their risk of heart disease by more than half.
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Surgical Technique Cuts Islet Cell Transplant Complications
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TUESDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A new surgical procedure dubbed the "sandwich technique" reduces the risk of complications from islet cell transplantation, a procedure to help diabetics who don't produce enough insulin.
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