Tag Archives: Diabetes mellitus

Zebrafish Embryos Used to Identify New Diabetes Drugs

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Researchers have genetically engineered 500,000 zebrafish embryos. These mutant fish will aid the discovery of diabetes drugs in the future. 24 drug candidates have already gotten selected for study...

Google Partners with DexCom to Create a Miniature Glucose Monitor

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A drop of blood. A strip and a meter that reads the blood glucose levels. That is the normal routine for so many in the United States. 10% of Americans, that is 21.9 million people, have diabetes....

Diabetes Drug Liraglutide Aids Weight Loss says New Study

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Liraglutide is a diabetes drug that can be administered by a hypodermic syringe. And it is a great weight loss aid that has allowed many of the obese and morbidly obese to lose as much as 18 pounds...

Panasonic to Buy Bayer Diabetic Care Unit for $1.13 Billion

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Bayer is ready to sell off its Diabetes Care Unit to Panasonic for more than a billion dollars. This was supported by KKR & Company. The unit creates diabetes monitoring equipment. The Bayer...

Women with Type 1 diabetes at greater risk of death than men

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Bad news for women with Type 1 diabetes. A recent study by the University of Queensland's School of Public Health shows that women with Type 1 diabetes have a 40 percent higher risk of death than men...

African American women working night shift at risk for Type 2 diabetes

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Diabetes is serious illness for many Americans. The CDC estimates that 1 in 11 people have either Type 1 or Type 2 and 1 in 4 are entirely unaware. Studies show that 1 in 3 million people, or 86...

Bret Michaels In Serious Condition with Flu

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Bret Michaels missed Friday night’s show in Wilkes-Barre, PA, after a sudden illness the night before. Saturday’s show in Albany, NY, may also be at risk of cancellation.Noise11’s Paul Cashmere’s “...

Contact Lenses will Get Smarter

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Google has already introduced its smart contact lenses project. The management of blood sugar levels is a troublesome issue for the diabetic among us. There are even cases of people with diabetes...

Diabetes Diet: 6 Points to Stick with

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Those who have diabetes have to take extra care regarding what they put into their mouth. And besides exercising and taking their medications they also ought to keep a food diary to detect any...