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With people keeping a distance from medical gadgets, the “GlucoM Writstband,” a medical concept for diabetics, comes as a pleasing exception. The trendy gadget, other than securing instant and non-invasive glucose readings, a history of previous..
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Nowadays, more and more people are opting for a medical tattoo as an alternative for the medical alert IDs. Youngsters being diagnosed with medical conditions like...
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JoAnne Zoller Wagner’s diagnosis as prediabetic wasn’t enough to compel her to change her habits and lose 30 pounds. Not even with the knowledge her sister...
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You’ve heard that diabetes hurts your heart, your eyes, your kidneys. New research indicates a more ominous link: That diabetes increases the risk of getting...
made popular Mar 16 2009
Tattoos may be all the rage, and with the study Draper Laboratories is doing, they may become good for health too. Heather Clark and her colleagues are working on a...
made popular Feb 14 2009
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The mother of a 9-year-old diabetic who died as she lay beside a bag of candy and other sweets has been accused of helping cause her death by failing to help the girl...
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Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study.
made popular Dec 29 2008
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New drugs to treat an epidemic of diabetes will have to be screened more closely for heart risks, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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AstraZeneca PLC and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said Monday they plan to extend their international deal to co-develop _ and ultimately sell _ a new diabetes drug to...
made popular Dec 8 2008
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As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
made popular Nov 18 2008
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The controversial diabetes pill Avandia failed to significantly slow plaque buildup in heart arteries compared with an older drug, though there were some hopeful signs...
made popular Nov 12 2008
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In an Oct. 30 story about U.S. diabetes rates, The Associated Press erroneously said that with Type 2, diabetics do not produce or use insulin, a hormone needed to...
made popular Oct 31 2008
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The nation’s obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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The government should ban the diabetes drug Avandia because of a wide variety of life-threatening risks, including heart and liver damage, a consumer group said...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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Americans with diabetes nearly doubled their spending on drugs for the disease in just six years, with the bill last year climbing to an eye-popping $12.5 billion.
made popular Oct 27 2008
Drinking chamomile tea daily may help prevent the complications of type 2 diabetes, such as loss of vision and nerve and kidney damage, a study says.
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As more studies are focusing on childhood health, obesity in kids can be a risk factor to consider especially in cases of heart attacks and strokes at an early age....
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In order to protect yourself from diabetes you need not spending long hours in gymnasium, as doing household chores is capable of doing that. This fact rolled out from...
made popular Sep 15 2008
In a discovery that could help obese people and those afflicted with diabetes, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has devised a new tablet that could help people...
made popular Sep 15 2008
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Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar _ even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed _ have lower risks of heart attack, death and other...
made popular Sep 10 2008
When it comes to death rate from diabetes, gender matters yes, you get it right and women are hit hard by this death rate disparity from diabetes.
This conclusion is...
made popular Sep 8 2008
It’s a new approach for managing diabetes. Just drive this car and get treated. More as a medical gadget than a vehicle, is Medtronic Diabetes’s M-POWERED car. The...
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The researchers, having observed that diabetes rates are low among indigenous inhabitants of South Pacific islands where modern agrarian cuisine is unavailable, split...
made popular May 28 2008
Women who donate their eggs for stem cell research would get a compensation of $490.
This research would be a panacea for incurable diseases. Scientists are hopeful...
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Diabetics have always been considered at higher risk of kidney failure. But more confounding is the fact that between the time periods of 1995 to 2004, the number of...
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Sometimes efforts to prevent higher level of blood sugar level lead to a condition called, hypoglycemia or low blood sugar and in that case, a diabetics feel deprived...
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Chances are very high that very soon it would be quite possible to expunge type 1 diabetes totally. Actually, a new study aiming at the causes of type 1 diabetes has...
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Daniel Smith and Darell Reneker, researchers at the University of Akron have developed a new type of Nanofiber based bandages that can speed up the healing process of...
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A team of researchers at the University of Maryland’s Biotechnology Institute headed by Dr. Chris Geddes has developed special molecules with the ability to...
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Believe it or not but it is true that India is the ‘diabetic capital’ of the world. In the last few decades with the growth of urbanization, lifestyle of...
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Whereas Diabetes drug ‘Actos’ or Amaryl (glimepiride) helps thousands of diabetics, it can also be helpful in slackening down the thickening process of the...
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Higher level of sugar in the blood may turn you more vulnerable to stroke death. Researchers have given vent to this belief. According to an estimate, about three...
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Do you know that the lower limbs of the people with diabetes are ten times more prone to injuries than the people who do not have diabetes? If diabetics ignore the...
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Hey! Good news for the diabetics who are having inferior sexual functioning. Researchers have invented a new gene therapy that is capable of improving the sexual...
made popular Oct 27 2006
Drug Metformin, commonly used to treat diabetics may be responsible for the deficiency of vitamin B12, a new study has wrapped out this fact.
However, it is great...
made popular Oct 23 2006
Pomegranate juice may play an important role in keeping you away from heart disease and it can be very beneficial for the diabetics who suffer from heart disease. A new...
made popular Oct 19 2006
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Diabetic people now can use a new product, InsulAid, as a pinpointing and diagnostic tool to take care of the diabetes management. Presently they use three separate...
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Eating a healthy diet is an important tool to be healthy. It is as important as for diabetics too. Their body doesn’t produce or properly use insulin. Taking...
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