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Everyday nearly 26 million Americans with diabetes and 79 million more with pre-diabetes struggle to control their blood sugar. A new online program, DAWN Online!, a Diabetes Awareness, Wellness and Nutrition program, can change all that and offers hope to those trying to keep blood sugars in check. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 27, 2013 As the number of individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetes climbs in the US and the world, so do the complications associated with high blood sugar. These...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Americans, as a whole, are doing a better job of controlling their diabetes, but there is still room for improvement amongst young people and some minority groups, federal health officials claim in a new study. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed health-related survey data and discovered the number of patients who were able to meet or exceed...
NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Diabetes.org, 12.6 million women in America suffer from diabetes. Type II diabetes in particular is one of the most prevalent health concerns for women, affecting 95% of those diagnosed(I). Despite the statistics, the side effects for women with diabetes often go undiscussed, one in particular being sexual dysfunction. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120717/NY41829 ) Although research about sexual dysfunction...
Researchers report at American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting A consortium of scientists who are taking a novel approach in their research to detect the genetic variations that predispose individuals to type 2 diabetes provided an update of their findings at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2012 meeting. Among the project's novel characteristics is the ethnic diversity of the 10,000 individuals whose exomes, the 18,000 protein-coding genes, are being sequenced....
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is urging people with diabetes to get their hearing tested, and is offering a free, quick, and confidential online hearing check at www.hearingcheck.org so anyone can determine if they need a comprehensive hearing test by a hearing healthcare professional. BHI's outreach efforts come in recognition of American Diabetes Month® in November and World Diabetes Day on November 14. Hearing loss is about twice...
SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, October 19, 2012, The National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced the early termination of the treatment being studied in the NIH-funded "Look AHEAD" (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial (http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2012/niddk-19.htm). This study was designed to determine if weight loss resulting from a lifestyle change intervention would reduce rates of heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular-related...
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rates of diagnosed diabetes are much higher among some Asian subgroups than is apparent when aggregating all Asians as a whole, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and the University of California, San Francisco which appears in the current online issue of Diabetes Care. In this first study to look at Asian subgroup differences in a population with uniform access to health care,...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that Christian Weyer, M.D., M.A.S. has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and elected to the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Weyer joins Fate Therapeutics after a 12-year tenure with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development until the completion of its acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb in...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A recent study has found that, of people who have been newly diagnosed with diabetes, those with a normal body mass index (BMI) experience a higher mortality rate than those who are overweight. The Northwestern University study, published in the August 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the total of non-cardiovascular mortality rate was significantly higher in normal BMI diabetics. “Type 2...
DENVER, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Most people who have diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol have difficultly managing all three conditions; indeed, success is fleeting for those who do manage all three, according to a Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Research study that appears online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The study of close to 29,000 individuals enrolled at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and...
