A new study has found that keeping babies off cow's milk may help prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in children. The study followed 230 Finnish babies who received formula because breast milk was not available. Half of the babies received standard cow's milk formula...
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Diamyd Medical announced it has completed the screening of patients for the US Phase III study, DiaPrevent, ending the recruitment campaign.
More than 310 recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients between 10 and 20 years of age have already been enrolled in the study and have received their first injection of the antigen-based therapy Diamyd or placebo...
The California based bio-tech company XOMA announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued two new patents to XOMA as part of the company's expanding intellectual property portfolio around its XOMA 052 antibody to interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta)...
Last month the Obesity Society held its 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Obesity 2010, in San Diego. A number of prominent researchers, physicians, advocates, and business leaders...
We’re planning a trial in China to block the progression of type 1 at the onset, and see if it’s possible to transplant organs and tissue without the use of lifelong immune suppression drugs...
Eli Lilly and Co. and MacroGenics Inc. announced that the Protege Data Monitoring Committee (DMC), has completed a planned analysis of one-year safety and efficacy data of the Protege Phase 3 clinical trial of teplizumab.
The DMC, composed of independent experts in the fields of diabetes and biostatistics, concluded that the primary efficacy endpoint of the study was not met...
A clinical trial at UT Southwestern Medical Center aims to determine whether adding the hormone leptin to standard insulin therapy might help control the tumultuous blood-sugar levels of people with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes...
Spherix Inc., a biotechnology company based in Maryland, announced results of its NEET Phase 3 study of D-tagatose as a monotherapy for type 2 diabetes.
The NEET (Naturlose® Efficacy Evaluation Trial) data showed a significant drop in Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels among patients treated with D-tagatose....
John Lachin had one last monkey wrench to throw in. He agreed that the problem was not severe hypoglycemia, and was not rapid lowering of HbA1c...
Biodel Inc. researchers presented results of a clinical study evaluating a new pH-neutral formulation of Linjeta(TM) (VIAject(R)) at the 46th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Stockholm today. Dr. Tim Heise (Profil Institute for Metabolic Research, Neuss, Germany) and colleagues reported that...