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SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE MKT: CXM) today announced that the Company will present a poster demonstrating the clinical benefits of Excellagen(®) in advanced regenerative wound management at The Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society (SAWC/WHS) meeting to be held May 1-5, 2013, in Denver, Colorado. The presentation titled "Accelerated Granulation and Healing of Problematic Post-Surgical Wounds with Formulated Collagen Gel...
TORONTO, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Transition Therapeutics Inc. ("Transition" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TTHI, TSX: TTH) announced the results of a five-week proof of concept clinical study of TT-401 in type 2 diabetic and obese non-diabetic subjects. In the study, TT-401 a once-weekly administered peptide, demonstrated significant improvements in glycemic control and reductions in body weight. The study enrolled diabetic patients at five dosing levels and non-diabetic...
Custom Publications Will be Delivered to Families Affected by Type 1 Diabetes Throughout the World INDIANAPOLIS, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- News Highlights: Lilly Diabetes expands collaboration with Disney Publishing Worldwide globally. New educational resources will be available soon for families of children with type 1 diabetes. Lilly Diabetes today announced the global expansion of its innovative collaboration with Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), which expands the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Eating a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids and low in saturated fats, meats and dairy products may be linked to preserving memory and cognitive abilities in most people, though the association was not discovered in people with diabetes, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Neurology. The research used dietary information from more than 17,400 Caucasian and African-American people with an average age of 64 and was...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from the Keimyung University School of Medicine in South Korea have found new evidence supporting green tea’s role as a weight-loss aid, as well as an herbal remedy useful for glucose regulation in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes. Writing in the most recent edition of the journal Naunyn-Schmedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology, Jae-Hyung Park and his colleagues describe how they tested the impact of green tea...
JERUSALEM, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQCM: ORMP) (http://www.oramed.com), a developer of oral delivery systems of drugs currently administered by injection, announced today that its abstract, entitled "Oral insulin capsules toward management of Type 1 diabetes mellitus," will be presented at the Global Technology Community Diabetes Summit 2013. The poster will be presented today, April 29(th), by Dr. Miriam Kidron, Oramed's Chief Scientific Officer,...
Simple Patient Access Scheme has been submitted to NICE for rapid review ATLANTA, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alimera Sciences, Inc., (NASDAQ: ALIM) (Alimera), a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the research, development and commercialization of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, today announced that ILUVIEN(®), the first sustained release pharmaceutical product for the treatment of chronic diabetic macular edema (DME), is now available in the United...
Nurses with the highest melatonin production have about half the type 2 diabetes of those with the lowest melatonin, according to the Harvard study. Orange eyeglasses that eliminate blue light, (available from Photonic Developments LLC) help maximize melatonin production. University Heights, OH (PRWEB) April 27, 2013 In the April 3, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health describe the results of a 13 year study of...
A study presented today at the International Liver CongressTM 2013 – which evaluated the relationship between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), early predictors of atherosclerosis and the 10-year Framingham risk score (FRS) – showed that NAFLD increases the risk of early atherosclerotic lesions independent of established cardiovascular (CV) risk factors. NAFLD is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease. Patients with NAFLD have an excess prevalence of CV events...
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, have shown in a mouse model that infection with nematodes (also known as roundworms) can not only combat obesity but ameliorate related metabolic disorders. Their research is published ahead of print online in the journal Infection and Immunity. Gastrointestinal nematodes infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide, and some researchers believe up until the 20th century almost everyone had worms. In developed...
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Diabetes is a peer-reviewed medical journal published since 1952 by the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes is a separate journal from the journal Diabetes Care, which is also published by the ADA. Diabetes covers research about the physiology and pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus, including any aspect of laboratory, animal or human research. Emphasis is on investigative reports focusing on areas such as the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications, normal and pathologic...
Diabetes Care is a peer-reviewed medical journal established in 1978 and published monthly by the American Diabetes Association. It covers research in the following five categories: clinical care/education/nutrition/psychosocial research; epidemiology/health services research; emerging treatments and technologies; pathophysiology/complications; and cardiovascular and metabolic risk. The journal also publishes clinically relevant review articles, letters to the editor, and commentaries....
Insulin, a hormone, is used to regulate carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells to take up glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen in the liver and muscle. This hormone stops the body from using fat as an energy source by inhibiting the release of glucagons. Without insulin the body fails to take glucose into the bodies cells and in turns uses fat as an energy source. It also has several other anabolic effects throughout the body. Diabetes mellitus results...
