Confusion over diabetes testing
BBC News - UK
Psychologist Dr Elizabeth Peel interviewed type 2 diabetes patients, and found that many were confused over what to do with the results. ...
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Weight-Loss Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
Wall Street Journal - USA
22) highlights a truth known for years: Weight loss mitigates, and in some instances cures, Type 2 diabetes. I have witnessed this in my practice many times ...
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Kerr Drug Launches Fight Diabetes NC Website
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
The main attraction of the website is the free online forum for diabetes. This forum facilitates the general public to put forward their problems and obtain ...
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Diabetes classes to be held in Vineland
The Bridgeton News - NJ.com - NJ, United States
VINELAND-- "Diabetes Self-Management," a four-session course for people with diabetes and their families will be offered by the South Jersey Healthcare ...
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Best Practices: Surveillance and Management of Diabetes in a CMHC ...
Psychiatric Services (subscription) - USA
Diabetes was more than two-and-a-half times as prevalent among participants (17.4%) as in the general population. Fourteen percent of patients classified as ...
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China Jails Man Who Sold Fake J&J Diabetes Test Kits (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
31 (Bloomberg) -- A Shanghai Court sentenced a Chinese businessman to 3 1/2 years in prison for selling counterfeit Johnson & Johnson diabetes test kits as ...
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Child diabetes rate rises
ABC Online - Australia
There has been an increase in the number of Australian children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) says ...
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Thai stem cell researchers treat diabetes

Thai medical researchers and physicians have achieved success in treating foot wounds of diabetes patients with their own stem cells, according to an announcement from Thailand's National Innovation Agency chief Supachai Lorlowhakarn.

Several diabetes patients, aged from 50 to 72, with chronic wounds on their feet -- especially difficult in the case of diabetics -- were injected with stem cells extracted from their own blood and the wounds completely healed in a three to four month period.

The stem cell treatment of wounds of diabetes patients, which costs about Bt200,000 (US$5,880) per patient, can save a large sum of money, compared to perhaps one million baht in conventional treatment for a leg wound. In addition to the patient's blood, stem cells may also be extracted from his bone marrow.

Each year, an estimated 40,000 diabetes patients had lacerations of their limbs.

Besides diabetes-related illnesses, stem cells may be used to cure thalassmia, leukemia and cardiac syndromes, according to the National Innovation Agency chief during a press conference attended by physicians of the Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine, Samitivej Srinakharin Hospital and THAI StemLife Co. (TNA)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=121246

Sales stay healthy for Takeda diabetes pill
Chicago Tribune - United States
About one month after a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said the diabetes pill Avandia should remain on the market but with strict warnings ...
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Diabetes, Not a Death Sentence
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
An endocrinologist, expert in the study and management of the glands and related diseases, has advised people living with diabetes not to see the condition ...
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Gastric surgery could cure type 2 diabetes
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Patients with the most common type of diabetes could be offered abdominal surgery, after a clinical trial found it may permanently cure the condition. ...
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Thai stem cell researchers treat diabetes
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Thai medical researchers and physicians have achieved success in treating foot wounds of diabetes patients with their own stem cells, according to an ...
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Weight Loss - The Diabetes Diet
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
The Diabetes Diet, created by Dr Richard Bernstein,may well be the best diet for everyone, not just diabetics. The reason for this is that it has the ...
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Diabetes -- Darwinism in our time?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By Greg Critser The steady dirge of diabetes swells all about us, dark and onerous. The condition is now estimated to affect 7% of California's population, ...
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Role For Glucose-sensing Neurons In Type 2 Diabetes Identified
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Science Daily -- In cases of Type 2 diabetes, the body's cells fail to appropriately regulate blood glucose levels. Research has suggested that this results ...
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Dementia linked to removal of ovaries
Women who have their ovaries removed before menopause run a heightened risk of developing dementia or other mental problems later in life - unless they take estrogen until age 50, a new study suggests.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20497319/

	from Debra Manzella, R.N. Thursday is the day for diabetes news. There is so much happening in the world of diabetes research that the Thursday newsletter will be dedicated to bringing you the latest information every week.
In the Spotlight

Why Don't All Obese People Get Diabetes? Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have determined that excess weight does not necessarily lead to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. By studying mice, they learned that where the fat is stored and what hormones are present in the body have more to do with...read more More Topics Pregnancy and Diabetes Medications and Equipment Diabetes Research Support and Resources Diabetes 101 Children and Diabetes What is Diabetes? If Mom Has Gestational Diabetes, Kids May Become Obese Can a mom's high blood glucose levels during pregnancy place her child at risk for obesity during childhood? The study, Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Imprinting: The Ongoing Effects of Maternal Hyperglycemia, conducted at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research Northwest and Hawaii demonstrates that might be the case. Results of the study showed....read more Antimalarial Drug May Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk According to an article in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), hydroxychloroquine may decrease the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) is an anti-inflammatory drug that is in...read more

Surgery Might Be The End Of Type 2 Diabetes

Abdominal surgery is a radical way of losing weight, but could it also cure type 2 diabetes? Surgeons performing gastric bypass surgery on obese people with diabetes noticed that in around 98 per cent of cases the patients' diabetes vanished. Now, an international team of doctors have performed the same surgery (involving the removal of the duodenum) on seven people with type 2 diabetes to see if it has a similar effect...MORE

Estrogen hormone deficiency after Menopause cause Obesity which ...
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
[Best Syndication] Estrogen deficiency in menopausal women may promote obesity and develop high blood pressure suggests a recent study conducted at the ...
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New method devised for comparing efficacy and tolerability of drugs
SpiritIndia - New Delhi,New Delhi,India
AP Coffee drinkers at risk for high blood pressure -- The likelihood of having to start drug treatment to control high blood pressure, or hypertension, ...
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Vege better defence against diabetes

By Tamara McLean

August 29, 2007 01:42pm

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VEGETABLES offer more protection against diabetes than fruit or cereal, Australian research shows.

A study of more than 2000 people tracked over 10 years found vegetable fibre had the strongest links to reduced risk of type two diabetes.

Adults eating 5g a day of vegetable fibre over the decade had a 24 per cent reduction in the disease, according to research by the University of Sydney.

For people over 70, the benefits were even greater, with a 31 per cent reduction.

The same intake of fruit or cereal fibres only marginally reduced the risk, showing they were not nearly as beneficial.

The findings, published in the US journal Diabetes Care, proved that the type and quality of carbohydrate consumed played an important role in type two diabetes.

Eating carbs that were high in natural fibre and ranked low on the glycaemic index (GI) - foods that produced only small fluctuations in blood glucose and insulin levels - might effectively prevent the lifestyle disease, the researchers concluded.

The study leader, dietician Alan Barclay, said vegetables, and legumes in particular, were probably getting the best result because they were an ideal source of intact or "natural" fibres.

"Legumes like beans, lentils, chickpeas are eaten whole with their dietary fibres intact, which means they actually encapsulate the carbohydrate in the food," said Mr Barclay, a PhD student.

"They therefore slow down the rate of digestion and absorption and have good flow-on glycaemic effects on blood glucose."

Cereal fibre was not so effective because it was usually added to products, rather than eaten in a natural form.

And while fresh fruit fibres were intact, people probably just did not eat enough to benefit, Mr Barclay said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22327658-29277,00.html

Depression Care Management May Reduce Mortality in Older Patients ...
Medscape (subscription) - USA
August 29, 2007 -- Depression care management may reduce 5-year mortality in older primary care patients with both depression and diabetes, according to the ...
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Vege better defence against diabetes
NEWS.com.au - Australia
By Tamara McLean A study of more than 2000 people tracked over 10 years found vegetable fibre had the strongest links to reduced risk of type two diabetes. ...
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Brain Link Seen in Type 2 Diabetes
WebMD - USA
29, 2007 -- The early warning signs of type 2 diabetes may include subtle changes in some brain cells, a new study shows. The study comes from researchers ...
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Rare pigs key to diabetes treatment
ABC Online - Australia
(File photo) (The 7.30 Report) An Australian scientist's radical therapeutic treatment for diabetes - using insulin-producing pig cells - could resume ...
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Gestational diabetes, child obesity linked
Science Daily (press release) - USA
29 (UPI) -- Treating pregnant women for diabetes during pregnancy can break the link between gestational diabetes and childhood obesity, a US study found. ...
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Family First: Children & Diabetes
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
(CBS) NEW YORK More than 15000 American children are diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes every year. While the diagnosis can be frightening and confusing at ...
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Whole Grains Found to Protect Against Diabetes
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA
29 -- Whole grains may help prevent type 2 diabetes, with consistent results across studies, researchers said. Explain to interested patients that this ...
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NHG sets up Diabetes Registry to improve patient care
Channel News Asia - Singapore
According to the National Health Survey in 2004, there are at least 330000 people, aged 18 to 69, suffering from diabetes in Singapore. ...
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[StemCells] NIH & comparative grant money

[StemCells] NIH & comparative grant money

NIH Delays Grant Comparing Amniotic, Embryonic, and Placental Stem
Cells
By Steven Edwards August 01, 2007 | 6:47:39 PMCategories: Policy,
Stem Cell Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is refusing to approve a
grant application that would provide the pre-clinical data to
potentially move stem cell therapies for diabetes, myocardial
infarction, and macular degeneration into human clinical trials.

I spoke with Robert Lanza, stem cell scientist and one of the grant
authors, yesterday by phone. What I learned should anger both
opponents and supporters of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research.

---

Lanza told me that the $3.5 million three-year grant request aimed to
characterize the abilities and properties of four different types of
stem cell lines: the Bush-approved ESCs, ESCs derived using Advanced
Cell Technology's non-destructive method, placental stem cells, and
amniotic fluid stem cells (AFSCs).

The team's goals included determining which cell lines could become
which cell types (e.g., insulin-producing, neural, mesoderm) and
which cell lines produced the most effective cells to treat various
diseases in animals. As some ESC lines may be better than other ESC
lines at certain functions, the tests would also be performed between
cell lines of the same type.

---

The results of the in-vivo (live animal) tests would determine which
stem-cell line would be best to use to treat each disease. Perhaps
ESCs would show the most promise for neural conditions (macular
degeneration) while AFSCs would be most promising for diabetes, or
placental stem cells could be most promising for everything.

---

The team behind this proposed study hoped to discover the answer
these questions, but the NIH blamed Bush's stem-cell regulations for
preventing it from going forward.

The problem was outlined, in part, by a Boston Globe article on
Monday. The article focuses on how the language governing stem cell
research is actually impeding it, but fails to clarify an important
point -- what's actually causing the delay.

Current regulations, imposed by President Bush in 2001, restricting
federal funding to only those ESC lines derived prior to August 9,
2001 disqualify the grant application as is because it asks for funds
to study newer ESC lines. But newer regulations issued by Bush in
April may allow the grant to move forward, as it would allow federal
funding for ESCs that were obtained "without creating [...]
destroying, discarding, or subjecting to harm a human embryo or
fetus."

The Globe article focuses much of its attention on how the NIH is
unsure if Lanza's (Advanced Cell Technology's) technique actually
harms the embryo -- which is an important question -- but it
misrepresents the most infuriating aspect of this story.

The group submitted a proposal to the NIH in February, then waited.

Eventually, the NIH told the team that it had referred the proposal
to a different review group. Then, in a series of e-mails, the agency
backed off further, first encouraging the applicants to drop Lanza's
cells from the proposal and, finally, when the team refused to do so,
informing them that the application was being sidelined indefinitely
for "administrative review."

Lanza told me that he did offer to drop his cells from the proposal
if they presented a problem, but the NIH wouldn't go along with it.
The NIH asked them to resubmit the application without his cells,
which would have pushed the new application to the back of the line
in the review process.

Lanza offered me the following excerpts from his email exchange with
the NIH to prove that he did make the offer:

While I appreciate that the NIH is dealing with complicated new
issues for this grant application, I think you can also understand
the concern that researchers in this field will have that such as
review process proceeds sub rosa. In the case of the research
proposed in mine and similar grant applications, months of review may
translate into lost opportunities to make differences in the lives of
many many patients. Again, I respectfully submit that this grant
application is entitled to a timely and meaningful review....In my
original email to you, I offered to remove the blastomere derived
line from the application if the administrative review concluded that
this part of the proposed research could not be funded. I saw this
as fair means to permit the parallel review process to occur. My
concern of course is keeping the current application in the que and
moving forward, rather than having the clock effectively reset to the
next review period.

With Lanza's cells out of the application, as he offered, the grant
could have been approved even under the current regulations. The NIH
apparently didn't see this as fair, which is unfortunate.

---

Are ESCs really better than their amniotic or placental counterparts?
This grant could tell us, but the answer will take longer to get here
thanks to the NIH.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/nih-delays-gran.html

Circulating Fats Kill Transplanted Pancreas Cells, Study Shows
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The researchers first injected rats with a drug that kills pancreatic beta cells in order to mimic human insulin-dependent, or juvenile, diabetes (type 1), ...
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Ladera Ranch neighbors fight juvenile diabetes
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
By EUGENE W. FIELDS For Lee and his neighbors on Lewiston Court, doing everything together includes finding a cure for juvenile diabetes. ...
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Vitals Signs At Risk: Gestational Diabetes May Be Tied to Type of ...
New York Times - United States
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Gestational diabetes may be associated with a substantially increased risk for pancreatic cancer, a new study has found. ...
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Pfizer, Bristol to team on new diabetes, obesity drugs
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The worldwide diabetes market is about $15 billion. At least 400 million adults were obese worldwide in 2005, according to the Geneva-based World Health ...
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Medco to Acquire Diabetes Supplier
New York Times - United States
Care for diabetes is a growing expense for employers that rely on Medco to administer drug benefits to people enrolled in corporate health plans. ...
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Study Finds Link Between Gestational Diabetes And Childhood Obesity
AHN - USA
Washington DC (AHN) - Babies born to mothers diagnosed with gestational diabetes have nearly double the risk of becoming obese during by age 5 to 7, ...
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Study: Moms' Diabetes Increases Kids' Risk
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
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Blood Pressure Drops as Weight Comes Off
PakTribune.com - Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: For people with high blood pressure that's not being treated with drugs, long-term weight loss brings a sustained reduction in blood pressure. ...
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Salt Gene Study
WHOI - Peoria,IL,USA
A normal blood pressure is lower than 120/80 mmHg. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is defined as a systolic reading of 140 or higher and/or a ...
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Study: Yoga An Effective Treatment For High Blood Pressure
AHN - USA
New Haven, CT (AHN) - A team of Yale researchers have found yoga to be an effective treatment for high blood pressure, one of the America's most common ...
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Exercise cuts heart risks for type 1 diabetes kids
Reuters.uk - UK
Study participants who exercised more often were also less likely to have high blood pressure or high cholesterol. The researchers looked at hemoglobin A1C, ...
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Hormones can affect morning blood pressure
Citrus County Chronicle - Crystal River,FL,USA
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coffee drinking raises blood pressure
Xinhua - China
28 (Xinhua) -- Finnish researchers have found that coffee drinking can lead to high blood pressure levels, Finnish media reported Tuesday. ...
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Treating Gestational Diabetes can Break Childhood Obesity Link
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Treating gestational diabetes during pregnancy may be one way to lower an unborn baby's risk of becoming later in life. ...
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Guide to healthy eating for diabetics exposes myths
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new report from Harvard Health Publications dispels common myths concerning diet and diabetes and explains what people with ...
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Diabetes test to identify Victorians at risk
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
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Diabetes discoveries
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
At the University of Miami, researchers have successfully tested a new biomechanical device to treat diabetes in the laboratory. It may mark a fundamental ...
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Treating a mother's diabetes during pregnancy could prevent child ...
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
AP NEW YORK | A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their babies will ...
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Register Now for Diabetes 101 in Gainesville on September 15
Access North Georgia - Gainesville,GA,USA
Do you, a family member or friend have diabetes? Mark your calendar and sign up soon for the upcoming Diabetes 101 seminar that will be held on Saturday, ...
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Hormone may be why some get diabetes
United Press International - USA
27 (UPI) -- A US study found mice can overeat without developing insulin resistance or diabetes because of the hormone adiponectin. Study leader Dr. Philipp ...
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A formidable team is set to tackle type 1 diabetes
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By JULIUS A. KARASH Cerner Corp. tonight will launch the second year of "Tackle Diabetes," a campaign to boost awareness of type 1 diabetes and ways to ...
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At Reunions, a Turn for the Healthier
Washington Post - United States
Since launching its Family Reunion Initiative in 2006, aimed at educating African Americans about their risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney ...
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Study suggests treating pregnant women who get diabetes cuts ...
KTVZ - Bend,OR,USA
AP - August 28, 2007 12:25 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) - A new study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances ...
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