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January 20, 2010
Insulin pumps may be better than shots: report
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pumps that deliver insulin to the body as needed may be more effective than insulin injections for helping people with type 1 diabetes keep their blood sugar under control, according to a new review of 23 studies comparing the two approaches.
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December 22, 2009
Enriched gel grows blood vessels in rats: US study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special gel enriched with enzymes and growth factors can help grow new blood vessels around a blocked artery in rats and might offer a way to make grow-your-own bypasses, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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December 17, 2009
Diabetic kids may focus too much on carb counting
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Keeping tabs on carbohydrates can help young people with type 1 diabetes control their blood sugar. But they should also be careful about putting too much emphasis on carb counting alone, researchers say.
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December 15, 2009
Antibody tests boost celiac disease diagnoses
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The advent of antibody testing to diagnose celiac disease has led to a substantial increase in the number of cases detected among children, a new study suggests.
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December 10, 2009
Australia to lift ban on animal transplants
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will lift a five year ban on animal-to-human transplant trials at the end of 2009, the National Health and Medical Research Council said on Thursday.
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October 6, 2009
Vision loss in diabetics becoming less common
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in more-recent decades may be less likely to suffer vision loss than their predecessors.
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August 11, 2009
Offspring weight, heart risks linked to mom's blood sugar
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A mother's blood sugar levels during pregnancy may increase her offspring's risk for being overweight and having heart disease, according to findings from a Danish study.
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August 6, 2009
Diabetes ups TB risk in children and adolescents
DELHI (Reuters Heath) - Nearly one in three children and adolescents with "insulin-dependent" type 1 diabetes have a positive skin test for tuberculosis (TB) and are at risk of developing active TB and spreading the infection to others, according to the results of a study conducted in a TB-endemic area.
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July 27, 2009
Early, intense therapy cuts type 1 diabetes risks
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with type 1 diabetes who can get their blood sugar to near-normal levels can cut their long-term risk of serious complications in half, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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July 27, 2009
Allergy drugs fight diabetes, obesity in mice
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Over-the-counter allergy and asthma drugs helped obese, diabetic mice lose weight and control their blood sugar, researchers reported on Monday.
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July 24, 2009
For better joint surgery outcome, control diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diabetic patients with uncontrolled diabetes face an increased risk of surgical complications and death following hip or knee replacements, according to a study in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
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July 16, 2009
Type 1 diabetic youth often overweight: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children and youth with type 1 diabetes are more likely to be overweight than their counterparts without type 1 diabetes, researchers have found.
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June 30, 2009
Diabetics urged to stay on popular insulin Lantus
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dr. Louis Philipson has already started fielding calls from worried diabetics after new studies of 300,000 patients released on Friday suggested the Sanofi-Aventis insulin drug Lantus (insulin glargine) might raise the risk of cancer.
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June 24, 2009
Parental carb-counting benefits diabetic child
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parental precision at carbohydrate counting is associated with improved blood sugar (glycemic) control in children with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in the current issue of Diabetes Care.
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June 8, 2009
Adult type 1 diabetics have higher depression rates
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters Health) - Adults with type 1 diabetes report more symptoms of depression and more often use anti-depressant medication than adults without type 1 diabetes, according to data released here at the 69th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
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June 5, 2009
Blood-sugar extremes cloud diabetic kids' thinking
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For children with type 1 diabetes, blood sugar levels that are either too low or too high may disrupt their ability to concentrate and think, a small study shows.
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June 4, 2009
Pre-conception diabetes control important
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with type 1 diabetes should keep their blood glucose levels well controlled before they become pregnant, in order to minimize the risk of serious adverse pregnancy outcomes, results of a large Danish study indicate.
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May 29, 2009
U.S. company finds "safer" way to make stem-like cells
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. researchers said on Thursday they had come up with the safest way yet to make stem-like cells using a patient's ordinary skin cells, this time by using pure human proteins.
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May 28, 2009
Type 1 diabetes to double in European kids under five
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of European children under 5 with type 1 diabetes could double by 2020, an alarming trend that suggests environmental factors may be playing a role, researchers said on Wednesday.
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May 27, 2009
Type 2 diabetes on the rise in Asia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In recent decades, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Asian populations has increased markedly, according to a review article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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May 25, 2009
Stress mires teens' adjustment to diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adolescents have more difficulty adjusting to life with insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes when stressed over poorly controlled blood sugar levels or when apprehensive about giving themselves insulin shots, researchers have found.
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May 20, 2009
Diabetes personal trainer helpful in teenagers
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A personalized, motivational, problem-solving diabetes management program -- spearheaded by a diabetes personal trainer -- may help older adolescents with type 1 diabetes better control their blood sugar over time.
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May 20, 2009
Diabetes poorly controlled in depressed teens
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Depressive symptoms are associated with poor control of blood sugar in adolescents with type 1, or "insulin-dependent," diabetes. The association is fueled by poor blood sugar monitoring, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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May 13, 2009
Cardiac anomalies seen in poorly controlled diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes are more likely to have structural and functional cardiac abnormalities than are their healthy peers or even girls with type 1 diabetes, according to a study in of Diabetes Care.
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May 13, 2009
Teens not urged to activity by pedometers/texts
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Increased physical activity may help adolescents with type 1 diabetes better manage their disease, but wearing a pedometer and receiving motivational text messages do not appear to get them moving, study findings suggest.
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May 7, 2009
Diabetes often affects women's sex-life
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Over one third of women with type 1 diabetes have some form of sexual difficulty, according to a new study.
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May 6, 2009
Double transplant seen best for diabetics
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with diabetes are prone to develop kidney damage that warrants a transplant, but they do best ultimately when they are given a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant rather than a kidney graft alone, new research shows.
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May 1, 2009
Early antibiotic use unrelated to type 1 diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Contrary to what several studies have shown, the results of a nationwide study of Danish children suggest that antibiotic use does not affect the development of type 1 diabetes.
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April 20, 2009
Depression common in diabetic adults
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults with type 1 diabetes are roughly twice as likely as their non-diabetic peers to be depressed and to use medications for the problem, according to findings published in the journal Diabetes Care.
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April 14, 2009
Transplants help Type 1 diabetics skip insulin
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with type 1 diabetes who got stem cell transplants were able to go as long as four years without needing insulin treatments, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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March 19, 2009
Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a healthy use for tobacco after breeding genetically modified plants containing a medicine that could stop type 1 diabetes.
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March 10, 2009
Teens' emotions may affect diabetes control
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers with type 1 diabetes may have a tougher time managing their blood sugar on days when they are feeling angry or down, a new study suggests.
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March 5, 2009
Studies point to viruses as cause of diabetes
LONDON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Thursday provide evidence that common viruses may cause childhood diabetes, paving the way for potential vaccines against the life-threatening condition, researchers said.
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March 5, 2009
Low vitamin D may be a bigger problem than thought
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many U.S. teenagers -- including half of African Americans -- would be considered vitamin D-deficient if the definition of deficiency were changed to what many experts recommend, a new study finds.
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December 26, 2008
Diabetic youth may try unhealthy dieting tactics
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes are often overweight and many turn to unhealthy weight loss practices, such as using over-the-counter diet aids without a doctor's advice, fasting and taking laxatives, new research shows.
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December 24, 2008
Vitamin D deficiency common in diabetic kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes may have a particularly high rate of deficiency in bone-building vitamin D, a small study suggests.
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December 17, 2008
Damage may already be done in advanced diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For men with long-standing, poorly controlled diabetes, intensive efforts to regulate glucose levels have little effect on rates of heart attacks or stroke, complications such as eye damage, or death, according to a report published Wednesday.
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December 11, 2008
Drug may stop diabetics' glucose decline at night
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A low dose of terbutaline at bedtime appears to prevent a drop in blood glucose, or hypoglycemia, during the night in patients with aggressively treated type 1 diabetes, without causing glucose levels to get too high the following morning, results of a pilot study indicate.
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December 10, 2008
Diabetes and celiac disease share common genes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that certain gene variants that increase the risk of type 1 diabetes also raise the risk of celiac disease, according to research published online today by The New England Journal of Medicine.
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December 10, 2008
Protection from diabetic eye disease will decline
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compared with standard treatment, intensive control of type 1 diabetes can help stave off diabetic eye disease, but over time this benefit will decline, according to new data from the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study.
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December 3, 2008
Danish firm to give African children free insulin
PARIS (Reuters) - The world's biggest maker of insulin on Wednesday pledged to provide diabetes care, including free medication, to 10,000 children in African countries to combat a hidden killer.
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November 26, 2008
Diabetes control doesn't normalize menstruation
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Good metabolic control and intensive insulin treatment doesn't normalize the onset of menstruation, which is usually delayed in girls with type 1 diabetes compared with girls without the disease, study findings confirm.
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November 24, 2008
Diabetic monitors can prevent nighttime seizures
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Monitors that continuously measure sugar levels under the skin can alert diabetics when levels fall too low during sleep and awaken them before a seizure occurs, according to a report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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November 21, 2008
Stable blood sugar curbs diabetes complications
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In people with type 1 diabetes, adequate control of blood sugar over the long haul helps reduce the risk of diabetes-related eye and kidney disease, new data suggest.
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November 19, 2008
Psychotherapy may help with diabetes control
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Integrating motivational enhancement therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy may help people with type 1 diabetes better manage their disease, British researchers report.
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November 11, 2008
Education improves life for diabetic kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A novel educational program called the Kids in Control of Food (KICk OFF) can improve the quality of life for children and teens with type 1 diabetes mellitus, according to findings in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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November 6, 2008
Green tea compound may prevent diabetes: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A compound found in green tea could slow or even prevent the development of type 1 diabetes, new research in mice suggests.
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November 5, 2008
Sprint workouts boost fat burning in diabetics
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Intense exercise training can help normalize muscle metabolism in people with type 1 diabetes, which could result in "clinically important health benefits," Australian researchers report.
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October 30, 2008
New US diabetes rate up 90 percent in past decade
WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - The rate of new cases of diabetes soared by about 90 percent in the United States in the past decade, fueled by growing obesity and sedentary lifestyles, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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October 23, 2008
School nurses help kids control diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - School nurses can help older children and adolescents with poorly controlled type 1, or "insulin dependent," diabetes better manage their blood sugar during the school day, research suggests.