Bydureon Approved for Sale in the US FDA approves Bydureon as adjunct treatment of type 2 diabetes. In a letter posted to the Food and Drug Administration website, the FDA said that Bydureon was approved as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type …

One holy grail of medical technology research has been the possibility of measuring patients’ blood glucose levels indirectly, avoiding the universally hated needle pricks. Not only will this make millions of diabetics jump with joy, it will certainly increase their testing compliance, leading to better management of the disease.

BioChip to Detect Glucose in Saliva One holy grail of medical technology research has been the possibility of measuring patients’ blood glucose levels indirectly, avoiding the universally hated needle pricks. Not only will this make millions of diabetes patients jump with joy, it will certainly increase their testing compliance, leading …

A study found that fewer diabetes patients are being hospitalized for foot or leg amputations, though they’re still at higher risk of losing a limb than the general population. Among diabetes patients ages 40 and up, hospital discharge rates for nontraumatic lower-extremity amputation fell an average of 8.6% per year …

But, it’s better than it once was. That figure was up slightly from the previous year’s 20%, but is still smaller than it was in 1996, when the top 1% of healthcare spenders accounted for 28% of total healthcare expenditures. Average per capita spending for each person in that top …

Adrian Cameron from Deakin University, study co-author, stated that, “We knew that higher hip circumference was protective against metabolic diseases such as diabetes as well as death…. However, we did not know that taking waist and hip circumference into account separately (as opposed to using the waist-to-hip ratio) would reveal …

Our own killer T-cells in the human body which help protect us from disease may inadvertently destroy cells that produce insulin.…

Diabetes patients who receive regularly scheduled monthly care to learn how to improve their health have a more rapid recovery compared with similar patients who receive only sporadic healthcare visits.…

A highly sensitive troponin test revealed evidence of subclinical heart damage in patients with hyperglycemia but no known coronary artery disease or heart failure, with particularly high enzyme levels in those with diabetes….

An immune regulator from healthy cord blood stem cells (CB-SCs) can “educate” the T cells of a person with type 1 diabetes, enabling the pancreas to produce insulin.…