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Eating Polluted Fish can Increase the Risk of Diabetes

...disorder in which the body does not produce enough insulin - necessary for the body to be able to use sugar. ...s have also shown a link between the chemicals and insulin resistance, a condition that often leads to diabetes. The research showed that fat people with the c...

Sugary News for Diabetics – Cure Stems from Stem Cell Therap

...ng Type-1 diabetes, in that they could give up the insulin treatment for months and in one particular case a ...ticipated in the testing, 13 completely stayed-off insulin injections. "This is the first therapy for type I diabetes to result in drug-free treatment," sai...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...dercut Indian makers' prices with products such as insulin produced by Biocon, have found that Indian companies can price their items even lower. At the same time there are also concerns that the promise of profits may divert much-needed attention away from research into diseases like tuberculosis and mala...

Glucose Causes Death of Brain Cells in Rodents Following Hypoglycemic Coma

...ergy. Diabetics do not produce enough of their own insulin and must take it several times a day. A severe insulin overdose can reduce levels of glucose in the blood to extremely low levels – a condition known as hy...

Transplanted Pig Cells in Human Produce Insulin

...d identification of //live porcine islet cells and insulin production in a human patient 10 years after recei...The transplanted cells helped reduce the patient’s insulin requirement by 34 percent for over a year, which provided better control and overall well-being. By ...

Two-in-one Diabetic Drug Approved by FDA

...on in which the body either doesn't produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin, is one of the most costly and burdensome diseases. Left untreated, it can result in heart disease, blindness, amputations as well as nerve and kidney damage. The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes among middle a...

Cocoa Polyphenols may Offer Diabetes Benefits - Study

...of blood glucose may be involved in improvement of insulin resistance by antioxidative effects of CLPr," they said. The one per cent dose used in this study would be equivalent to a daily polyphenol intake of five grams for a human, said Tomaru, or about 2.5 kg of normal chocolate. However, studies using ...

Child Diabetes Soars

...e fold between 1985 and 2004. Type 1 diabetes or insulin dependant diabetes is an ailment that develops in childhood as opposed to Type 2 diabetes, which develops much later. According to Charity Diabetes UK, nearly 20,000 school going children suffer Type 1 diabetes. Since the figures are way too high, th...

Hypertension, Diabetes and Obesity, a Deadly Trio

...led metabolic syndrome (MS). It is also known as insulin resistance syndrome and is defined as a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors. ISH President Dr Sridhar Diwedi explained that those with the MS were twice as likely to die as those without the syndrome. And their chances of suffe...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...ltiple nozzles to facilitate higher doses. Using insulin as a model drug for in vivo experiments with rats,... systemic, programmable delivery of drugs (such as insulin for diabetes or fentanyl for pain management), delivery of small doses in superficial layers for use...

New Research May Pave the Way for Shorter Hospital Stays for Diabetes Patients

Protocol-driven insulin therapy on the medical-surgical wards resulted in ...pilot trial to showcase how intensive subcutaneous insulin protocol on medical-surgical wards can help to improve diabetes control,” Alicia Leung, MD, at Strog...

New Pediatric Continuous Glucose Monitors Approved

...ous Glucose Monitoring System -- the world's first insulin pump with REAL-Time continuous glucose monitoring....he benefits of CGM plus the added value of precise insulin delivery through the use of insulin pump therapy. The Guardian REAL-Time System, a stand-alone CGM d...

Phthalate Exposure Affects Testosterone Levels and Fertility in Men

...lems but is also linked to abdominal obesity// and insulin resistance in adult males. This study was conducte...ce. Of these men, 651 also had fasting glucose and insulin levels required to calculate insulin resistance. The analysis found that, as expected, several pht...

Bring on the ‘Santa Clauses

...dicine, Mukamal attributes to higher production of insulin and hormones. In a 16-year study that followed more than 45,000 male health professionals, Mukamal and team found a steady decrease in suicides as B.M.I increased, even after controlling for variables including smoking, dietary factors, physical ac...

Caution Urged on Biologic Drugs

... panel today that some biological drugs -- such as insulin and human growth hormones -- are simple enough// to produce in generic versions, but others are too complex to be safely duplicated. Generic versions of certain biologics have been allowed in Europe for the last four years, but approval came only a...

Obesity And Environmental Chemicals: Research Probes Potential Link

...at tissue of these animals, Carey will explore the insulin sensitivity of fat cells. Preliminary data from her lab suggest that chronic exposure to PBDEs could cause fat cells to become less sensitive to insulin, which is a forerunner to developing Type II diabetes. The fat cells of growing male rats that we...

Caloric Restriction in Non-obese People Extends Life Span

...t several biomarkers of aging, including decreased insulin sensitivity (a precursor to diabetes). But how might caloric restriction slow aging? A major factor in the age-related decline of bodily functions is the accumulation of "oxidative damage" in the body's proteins, fats, and DNA. Oxidants—in particul...

Combination of Depression and Type-2-diabetes Lethal for Heart Patients

...inked to other cardiovascular risk factors such as insulin resistance, hypertension, obesity, increased cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse and physical inactivity. Source-Eurekalert PR...

Generic Biologics – U.S Panel Hearing Draws Mixed Response

...on biosimilars, told the panel some biologics like insulin and human growth hormones are fairly simple to produce as generics, but that other more complex biologic drugs cannot be reliably duplicated. In general, European regulators advise caution. Ajaz Hussain, who oversees biological drugs for Novartis ...

Scientists Explore Ways to Reduce Insulin Resistance by ‘handcuffing’ Gens

... that silencing a gene for a peptide involved// in insulin secretion will not only reduce insulin resistance, in animal models, it will also help avoid the drawbacks associated with a high calorie d...

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