Archive for May, 2009

06
May

Detecting Diabetes Without A Needle: The Spit Factor

Research promoting a painless new method for detecting Diabetes, utilizing saliva, will be revealed Friday, May 15, at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 18th Annual Meeting & Clinical Congress. While searching for biomarkers that may indicate Diabetes, physicians examined the saliva of 40 different patients.

Topics: physician, research, News, [...]

06
May

Drinks with Fructose Raise Metabolic Syndrome Risk

United States science experts say that drinks sweetened with the sweetener fructose increase belly fat and insulin resistance in overweight patients.

Topics: overweight, fat, metabolic syndrome, risk, News, insulin resistance, diabetes, health, insulin, weight

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06
May

Australian Scientists Create Potential Preventative Therapy For Type 1 Diabetes

Science experts believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type One Diabetes, by making the body’s killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset. Type One Diabetes is an autoimmune condition, where the body attacks its own insulin producing cells. It [...]

06
May

FDA extended time to review saxagliptin for treatment of diabetes

Endocrine Today, NJ
The Food and Drug Administration has extended the date of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act from April 30, 2009 to July 30, 2009, stating that additional time is needed to complete the review of saxagliptin for the treatment of Type Two Diabetes.

Topics: FDA, food and drug administration, diabetes, Saxagliptin, cells, Drug, type two [...]