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Bayer Introduces Nintendo Compatible Glucose Monitor in the US

Bayer Diabetes Care announced the introduction of the DIDGET™ blood glucose monitoring system in the United States. The Didget meter is unique because it is the only blood glucose meter that connects directly to Nintendo DS™ and DS Lite gaming systems to help kids manage a lifelong disease...
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Study Shows AFREZZA Safe and Effective in Controlling Blood Glucose Levels

MannKind Corp. announced the results of a two year study comparing the efficacy and safety of AFREZZA (insulin human [rDNA origin]) versus usual diabetes care. The study followed patients for a total of up to two years. The patients were randomly assigned to a treatment regimen of either AFREZZA plus...
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Superior Efficacy of Victoza Compared to Januvia in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

Novo Nordisk's new diabetes drug Victoza proved more effective than Merck & Co's Januvia in a head-to-head study published, in the Lancet. The 26-week trial showed that Victoza produced significantly greater reductions in HbA1C, fasting plasma glucose and body weight than Januvia, with similar or better overall treatment satisfaction....
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Artificial Pancreas Shows Promise in Israel

An artificial pancreas recently developed at the National Center for Childhood Diabetes at Schneider Children's Hospital in Israel, was tested on seven patients between the ages of 19 and 30. The device consists of a pump that releases insulin and a sensor, which is connected to a small computer which calculates the required amount of insulin to be delivered...
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Carbs in my Coffee

I had some dreams they were carbs in my coffee Carbs in my coffee, and... You're so vain... Mike makes fantastic cappuccino every morning, which I love (and need). The problem, however, is that the cup of warm, foamy milk which he pours into the coffee sometimes causes my blood sugar to jump to 160 or higher
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Fat Epidemic Threat to National Security

According to a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders, about 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military service, CNN reports. The leading medical reason is being overweight or obese. The Army's body fat limit for women in the 21-27 age range, with no prior service is 32 percent body fat and for males...
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Fat Loss Boosts Immune System in Obese and Type 2 Diabetics

Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney Australia have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly in those with Type 2 diabetes...
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Added Sugar May Increase Risk of Heart Disease

A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people who consume high amounts of added sugar in processed or prepared foods had lower levels of HDL (good cholesterol), higher levels of triglycerides – fat molecules found in the blood which are associated with heart disease and higher levels of LDL...
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Gene May Tie Stress to Obesity and Diabetes

A research team led by Dr. Alon Chen of the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department has discovered that changes in the activity of a single gene in the brain not only cause mice to exhibit anxious behavior, but also lead to metabolic changes that cause the mice to develop...
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