As you may have seen in the news, a California couple — Gregory Lee and Yvonne Dee Latham — were just convicted of second-degree murder…
I was surprised to learn that there are nearly as many adults diagnosed each year with type 1 as there are children...
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announced that researchers at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland completed a multicenter human clinical trial treating diabetic macular edema with mecamylamine, a topical drug developed by the biotech company CoMentis, Inc. Funding for the study was provided by JDRF through its Industry Drug Development Partnership program...
According to a new study published in the The New England Journal of Medicine, 92.4 million Chinese adults age 20 or older (9.7 percent of the population) have diabetes and 148.2 million more (15.5 percent) have prediabetes. Researchers from Tulane University administered an oral glucose tolerance test to 46,239 adults aged 20 or older from 14 provinces...
While Jerusalem artichokes are relatively high in carbohydrates, they have a low glycemic index ranking, meaning they won’t cause a rapid spike in blood sugar levels. So if you’re looking for a potato substitute, this dish is a good choice...
I am not the type of person who likes to go to the gym. The ritual of packing a bag, driving to the gym, changing clothes, working out, showering, changing…
First of all, thank you to everyone who commented on my post yesterday about the long-term consequences that the new American healthcare legislation…
The high risk pools will give insurance to people like me who have not been insured for more than six months and have a pre-existing condition...
Diamyd Medical announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted its type 1 diabetes drug candidate Diamyd® Orphan Drug Designation.
Orphan drugs qualify for several incentives including a seven-year period of market exclusivity in the US...
A new study, published online by PLoS Medicine, estimates that smoking, high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose, and obesity currently reduce life expectancy in the U.S. by 4.9 years in men and 4.1 years in women. It is the first study to look at the effects of those four preventable risk factors on life expectancy in the whole nation...