Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Today the FDA indicated that the safety label of Byetta would be modified to include potential kidney problems...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Exercise improves insulin resistance. We’ve known this for some time. Somehow, exercise strengthens the...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Insulin resistance is the hallmark of prediabetes. The disease has not yet set in because the pancreas can compensate for this by increasing the...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Prediabetes is almost always associated with a decreased ability to respond to insulin: a state we call insulin...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. If a doctor takes a biopsy of pancreatic tissue from a child who has been...
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The treatment goal for anyone with diabetes is to control blood sugar. Insulin is one of the most powerful drugs in our arsenal for this purpose....
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It is easy to say to a person with diabetes “you should get more exercise” but if you are not already exercising, how do you get started?...
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For most people with type 2 diabetes, diagnosis comes late. How late? Estimates based on epidemiological studies in the United States indicate that on...
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On September 26, 2009 the Children’s Diabetes Foundation will host the High Hopes Carousel Ball. The event will take place at the Sheraton...
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We have known for quite some time that obesity and type 2 diabetes is associated with a state of chronic inflammation. One of the ways we study this...
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