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.

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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

Simultaneous Transplant Gives Best Results In Diabetics With Kidney Disease

For patients with Type One Diabetes who need a kidney transplant, simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation offers a higher survival rate than other options but with some increased risks, reports a clinical study in an upcoming edition of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). “This clinical study helps patients with Type One [...]

06
May

Warning About Failing Insulin Infusion Pump, UK

A medical device alert has been issued by the Medicines and health care products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) relating to the Accu-Chek Spirit insulin pump. patients using the Accu-Chek Spirit insulin pump, up to serial number 10006093, may experience a failure of the device ‘up’ and/or ‘down’ buttons. These buttons are necessary to adjust [...]