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FDA Advises Patients To Continue Taking Avandia

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would be reviewing data submitted in August 2009, from a large, long-term clinical study (RECORD study) on possible risks associated with the diabetes drug, Avandia (rosiglitazone). The FDA said it will complete its review of the data from the RECORD study, and will then...

Avandia Harms The Heart, Studies Find

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market. The reports, obtained by The New York Times, say that if every diabetic now taking Avandia were instead given a similar pill named Actos...

Dolphin ability to switch on and off diabetes could lead to human cure

Researchers found that dolphins can induce diabetes when there is little food around and turn it off when food is abundant, according to Telegraph. They believe this is a unique ability in the animal kingdom and results from the dolphin’s need to maintain high blood sugar levels to feed its big brain....

Preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes in Pregnant Women With Hypertension or Obesity to be Examined

The National Institutes of Health provided a research grant of $2.4 million to Sean Blackwell, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, to study the link between obesity and high-risk pregnancies caused by preeclampsia and diabetes.

Roche drug may offer valuable new treatment option for patients with type 2 diabetes

Roche announced today that results from the first five Phase III clinical trials show that taspoglutide has met the primary end-points of reduction in blood glucose in these studies. Roche’s taspoglutide, the first weekly human GLP-1 analogue in late stage development may improve treatment options for patients with type 2 diabetes...

Study Shows Vinegar Reduces Blood Glucose Levels

A new study shows vinegar reduces post-meal hyperglycemia in type 1 diabetics. While previous studies have shown that vinegar improves insulin sensitivity in healthy or insulin-resistant subjects, information on the effect of vinegar in type 1 diabetes has been absent....

Diabetes UK: More than 3,000 emergency hospital admissions a year for children with diabetes

Diabetes UK reports more than 3,000 emergency hospital admissions a year for children with diabetes. The latest figures show that last year there were more than 3,300 cases of children in England admitted to accident and emergency departments with Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)....

New research may hold key to future type 1 diabetes cure

JDRF announced that research financed by JDRF may hold a key component for a possible type 1 diabetes cure. The researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California found that a hormone responsible for the body's stress response is also linked to the growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. The researchers found that the stress...

Mechanism Leading to Diabetic Blindness Identified

Diabetic retinopathy is a common side effect of diabetes and the leading cause of blindness in young adults in the United States. Scientists have long known that high blood sugar levels damage blood vessels in the eye, but they didn't know why or how this happens. Now a Michigan State University scientist has...

Donate to Help Haiti

The situation in Haiti continues to be dire, and there are hundreds of thousands of diabetics in Haiti who need help. The Haitian Foundation for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases is working to get supplies and medicine to those in need.