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Women with Gestational Diabetes 5x more likely to develop type 2 diabetes when they get older.
Women with Gestational Diabetes 5x more likely to develop type 2 diabetes when they get older.
When a women gets temporary diabetes during pregnancy its called gestational diabetes. Doctors are now saying that the number of women getting this temporary case of diabetes during pregnancy is rising. Even worse, they now believe that the chances of a women who previous had gestational diabetes are...
Is Group Checkins a good idea for Diabetes Patients?
Is Group Checkins a good idea for Diabetes Patients?
A group of Doctors looking for new and innovative ways to better care for patients with diabetes, are starting to consider and plan for group checkins. They are looking to start with diabetes as well as high blood pressure.
These group checkins will be longer than the avg visit , from and hour and half to two hours. The extended time will allow the...
Breaking: FDA Officially Approves Diabetes Drug Tradjenta
The Diabetes drug Tradjenta made by Eli Lilly & Boehringer Ingelheim has been approved by the Federal Drug Administration.
The drug was designed to be used with exercise and diet to control type 2 diabetes in adults. The drug was born out of a partnership of Eli Lilly & Boehringer Ingelheim that was signed un January. The partnership calls for the two compaines to co-develop 5 drugs for...
Advinus Considering Licensing Molecule the Diabetes Drug
Advinus Considering Licensing Molecule the Diabetes Drug
Tata group company Advinus Therapeutics has completed initial trials of a new molecule to treat type II diabetes and is in talks with a few global drugmakers to outlicense the molecule, a top company executive said.
The privately held company has sought the Indian drug regulator’s nod to go ahead with the phase II (a) trial of its molecules...
Surgery To Reduce Drugs Needed by Diabetics (Study)
Surgery To Reduce Drugs Needed by Diabetics (Study)
The majority of people with diabetes who had bariatric surgery to lose weight were able to stop taking their diabetes medications, which led to a significant decline in health-care costs, according to a study released Monday.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, looked at 2,235 adults who had the stomach-reducing surgery and who also had Type...
Type 2 Diabetes Has Been Linked to Certain Cancer
Type 2 Diabetes Has Been Linked to Certain Cancer
Shocking Evidence has been found that type 2 diabetes increases the risk to get certain cancer. Based on the study shown by American Cancer Association and American Diabetes Association, type 2 diabetes has been linked to certain cancer that will make more complicated for diabetic patients.
As you know, diabetes is categorized as a very dangerous epidemic...
Neurocrine Boehringer Deal, A milestone in Diabetes Drug development
Neurocrine – Boehringer Deal, A milestone in Diabetes Drug development
Neurocrine Biosciences Inc (NBIX.O) has recently signed a deal with Boehringer Ingelheim which is a private German drug manufacturing company. Under the terms of the huge deal Neurocrine has assigned a task of developing drug candidates in order to treat Type 2 diabetes and other related symptoms.
According to Neurocirine,...
White Rice Consumption – Another Alarming Sign in Type 2 Diabetes
White Rice Consumption – Another Alarming Sign in Type 2 Diabetes
Recent research conducted by US experts over the factors increasing the probability of Type 2 diabetes concluded that white rice which have potential to raise diabetes risk must be replaced by brown rice or whole grains to lessen the risk factor up to one third.
According to Harvard researchers in Archives of Internal Medicine, white...
In-Hospital Diabetes Screening at the Heart Institute in Ottawa
Canada’s first in-hospital Diabetes Screening program put in place at the Heart Institute in Ottawa
Good News! With the current onslaught of diabetes across the Canada and the rest of the world – Canada’s UOIH (University of Ottawa Heart Institute) will use in hospital diabetes screening to help find diagnose people with diabetes. As you know, diabetes tends to be difficult to be...
World Cup Star Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast Helping Kids with Diabetes
World Cup Star Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast Helping Kids with Diabetes
Like the rest of the world, the writers here at Diabetes Insider as obbessed with the with 2010 FIFA World Cup currently going on in Africa. As we are watching the current match featuring the Ivory Coast team – we came across the following interesting and feel-good story.
Didier Drigba is the captain of the Ivory Coast soccer team...
