Pre-diabetes is a lie. Pre-diabetes is Stage 1 diabetes. And I’m taking a stand now advocating that we call it what it is.
Pre-diabetes doesn’t…
According to a series of study results being published in a special issue of Diabetes Care youth with type 2 diabetes experience a more rapid progression of co-morbidities far more aggressive than what is typically seen in adults, even when they receive the best currently available treatment and close monitoring of their condition.
Dr. Harrison and his team identified that some T cells express a molecule on their surfaces, CD52, that is capable of suppressing other T cells. Understanding the ways in which the immune system normally controls and suppresses T cells is crucial to our understanding what goes wrong in autoimmune diseases.
The U.S. FDA has announced that it is allowing marketing of the COBAS INTEGRA 800 Tina-quant HbA1cDx assay (Tina-quant HbA1cDx assay), manufactured by Roche, for the diagnosis of diabetes by health care professionals. This is the first HbA1c test that FDA has allowed to be marketed for this use.
Results of the Novartis-sponsored INTERVAL study have demonstrated the feasibility of setting and achieving individualized treatment targets in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes treated with Novartis drug, Galvus (vildagliptin).
A few days ago, one of the boys in our neighborhood came over to play with my six-year old son, Sacha, and our black lab, Molly.
Unfortunately, the…
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes seventeen years ago. That’s the amount of time it takes to raise a child. With all the TLC I’ve provided, Diabetes…
Abbott Diabetes Care has initiated a voluntary recall of FreeStyle lnsulinx Blood Glucose Meters in the United States.
The glucose meters are…
The biomaterial holding the islet cells—which is completely synthetic, is 96 percent water, and which Garcia described as having the consistency of diluted Jello-O—and that was infused into the mice, however, addresses several of these problems.
We were in Forever 21 when it happened.
My mom had decided to take me on a trip to the mall to simultaneously celebrate my homecoming for the summer…