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Diabetes testing supply company demonstrates quality assurance through comparative research study CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodigy Diabetes Care (Prodigy) announced today that a recent study conducted by the Duke University revealed that the Prodigy AutoCode(®) blood glucose meter and test strip system is better than, or equivalent to, the leading brands in accuracy and reliability. The comparative clinical study examined the accuracy and reliability of blood...

Some of the earliest results from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in The Young (TEDDY) study - a major Europe-USA consortium exploring the causes of type 1 diabetes in children – has found no evidence for viral infection as a cause of the rapid-onset form of the condition. The research appears in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and is by Professor Anette-Gabriele Ziegler of the German Research Centre for Environmental Health...

Taking Diabetes to Heart Program Helps People Make Small but Important Lifestyle Changes WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced its partnership with celebrity chef Art Smith on Taking Diabetes to Heart, an educational program to help people living with type 2 diabetes better manage the disease. Smith, who lives with type 2 diabetes, will be traveling the country "cooking up" some of...

MADISON, Tenn., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2007, the total cost of diabetes treatment in the United States has risen from $174 billion to $245 billion. Nearly 26 million adults and children currently live with the disease. Per capita medical expenditures now total $7,900. Chronic pain and neuropathy necessitate a steady regimen of prescription pain relief medications, which is one of the more significant factors contributing these numbers. These findings are the result of a...

SALEM, N.H., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company based in Salem, NH, will be supporting The American Diabetes Association's movement to Stop Diabetes® by having a team ride in the annual Tour de Cure(®). The cycling event is happening on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at the Topsfield Fairgrounds in Topsfield, MA to help raise funds to change the future of diabetes and help stop this devastating disease. The team started because of...

Parker Waichman LLP is representing a Texas woman in a lawsuit alleging that Actos (pioglitazone) caused bladder cancer. The suit alleges that Takeda and other Defendants knew about the risk of bladder cancer associated with the diabetes drug but failed to warn consumers. New York, New York (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm dedicated to protecting the rights of victims injured by defective drugs, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Texas woman who developed...

Retrospective pooled analyses evaluated linagliptin treatment in American Hispanic/Latino people with type 2 diabetes, as well as in people living with type 2 diabetes for at least 10 years RIDGEFIELD, Conn. and INDIANAPOLIS, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced results from two new pooled analyses of phase III data with the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor linagliptin, presented at the...

IOWA CITY, Iowa, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IDx LLC, a company focused on deploying cutting-edge technology to make medical diagnostics more effective, announced earlier today that its first commercial product, IDx-DR, has received CE approval as a Class IIa medical device. CE marking clears IDx-DR for sale in 31 countries that comprise the European Economic Area. Developed over the course of two decades by a team of the world's leading retina experts, IDx-DR software runs on...

-Donation to Diabetes Hands Foundation Doubled When Documentary Reaches 10,000 Views- BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi US and Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress Elizabeth Perkins proudly premiered the Diabetes Co-Stars documentary, "Strength in Numbers," at the American Diabetes Association Expo in Los Angeles, CA this past weekend. The film, produced by Elizabeth and her 'co-star' and husband Julio Macat, features her diabetes story as well as two other...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Newly-developed nanoscale particles could be injected into the bodies of diabetic patients, triggering insulin release when glucose levels rise, maintaining normal blood sugar levels for at least a week, claims a new study published online Thursday by the journal ACS Nano. The particles were developed by researchers from North Carolina State University (NCSU), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the...