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Predictive Glucose Control System in Development Shows Promising Ability to Minimize Number, Duration and Severity of Hypoglycemic Events with No Safety Concerns WEST CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Animas Corporation announced today positive results from the second phase of human clinical trials of a first-generation, closed-loop insulin delivery system in development, designed to predict a rise or fall in blood glucose and correspondingly increase, decrease, suspend...
PETACH TIKVAH, Israel, February 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The clinical trial was performed in three academic centers: the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, the University Children's Hospital in Slovenia and the Kinderkrankenhaus AUF DER BULT in Germany. A publication in the February 28th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports results of a clinical study with an automated artificial pancreas performed for the first...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online More than 350 million people worldwide are believed to have diabetes, and for years health experts have debated on what the exact driver of the illness has been. While sugar intake has been viewed as a culprit in many eyes, scientists have long refuted that conjecture and attributed the global health crisis to too much overall food intake and obesity. But a new finding by three California universities – Stanford, UC-Berkeley and...
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with diabetes who undergo total knee replacement surgery do not have increased risk of surgical complications compared to those patients without diabetes, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Researchers studied the electronic health records of more than 40,000 patients who had a first-time knee replacement from Jan. 1, 2001 through Dec. 31, 2009. Of the patients...
ROSEMONT, Ill., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients with diabetes were no more likely to suffer infection, deep vein thrombosis (a deep vein blood clot) or other complications following total knee replacement (TKR) than patients without diabetes, according to new research published online today, in advance of its publication in the March 2013 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). The study authors sought to determine whether or not blood sugar level...
FOLSOM, Calif., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent research published online by the Journal of Nutrition, found an inverse relationship between walnut consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in two large prospective cohorts of U.S. women: the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and NHS II. The researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health followed 58,063 women (52-77 years) in NHS (1998-2008) and 79,893 women (35-52 years) in NHS II (1999-2009) without diabetes, cardiovascular...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMPE) announced oral dosing of the first patient in a 505(b)(2) clinical trial of the investigational drug Optina in diabetic macular edema. The trial will evaluate Optina(TM) in adults with recent onset diabetic macular edema. Last year, the FDA granted Optina(TM) 505(b)(2) status and drugs designated under this pathway can be approved on a single trial. (Logo:...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to a recent meta-analysis further revealing a link between diabetes and hearing loss, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is urging people with diabetes to get their hearing tested and is encouraging others to find out if they're at risk for developing type 2 diabetes by taking the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Risk Test. BHI's efforts come in recognition of American Diabetes Association Alert Day® on March 26. BHI is...
DENVER, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently published meta-analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reviewed 20 randomized control trials on the effect of various diets on glycemic control, lipids and weight loss in individuals with type 2 diabetes. The results found that a low-carb diet, like the Atkins Diet(TM), showed greater improvements in glycemic control biomarkers for type 2 diabetics and should be considered in the overall strategy of diabetes management....
--Partnership is designed to improve organizational efficiency and help JDRF meet its financial goals-- NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- JDRF, the leading non-profit organization in the area of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, has begun a national effort to streamline its business operations, introducing an operational data dashboard in all of its chapter offices and its headquarters in New York City. The development and rollout has been accomplished through a...
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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...
