Month: July 2013
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Living
Sleep Apnea in Kids: A Total Nightmare
Once linked primarily to overweight older men with Type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea can affect kids with diabetes, too.…
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Medicine/Drugs
Glaxo Settles with States on Avandia
GlaxoSmithKline agrees to pay $229 million to nine states to settle claims over Avandia, its once-popular diabetes drug. At the…
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Medicine/Drugs
Insulin Resistance: What You Need To Know
Measuring insulin resistance might be the key to stopping prediabetes from becoming Type 2 diabetes.
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Medicine/Drugs
Marijuana-based diabetes drug progresses in U.K.
Researchers are trying to determine how to utilize compounds in marijuana to control insulin levels. A U.K. drugmaker reports promise…
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Living
A New Role For “Misplaced Parents?”
Parents of kids with diabetes accumulate both diabetes knowledge and wisdom as they help manage the disease every day. Then…
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Hypoglycemia
Harnessing Hypos: Glucagon As An Everyday Tool
Controlling blood glucose like a normal pancreas does, using insulin and glucagon in tandem, is the aim of a San…
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Hypoglycemia
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Medicine/Drugs
Beta Cell Growth Factor or Just HOT Air?
Tests of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on pre-diabetic mice show promise in generating beta cell growth and preventing or slowing the…
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Artificial Pancreas
A Close Encounter With The Bionic Pancreas
Read Kelly Close's first-hand account of trying out the bionic pancreas that is generating all the headlines this week.
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