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One hundred thirty thousand new cases of diabetes due to sugar sweetened beverages: Researchers estimate that the increase consumption of sugar sweetened beverages between 1990 and 2000 has contributed to over 130,000 new cases of diabetes using a well established computer simulation model of the national population age 35 and …

Experimental Artificial Pancreas Succeeds — See this week’s Item #1. Lilly Submits Reply to FDA Complete Response Letter for BYDUREON™. Response from the FDA is expected within 14 days from April 22, 2010.

Higher Altitude Improves Insulin Sensitivity: There may be a reason Colorado has one of the nation’s lowest rates of diabetes. Scientists who bred mice missing a gene — which regulates response to low oxygen levels — found they stay thin and healthy and avoid fatty livers and diabetes even when …

Weight Loss is Associated with Decreased Proteinuria and Microalbuminuria: The evidence supports the beneficiary effect of weight loss on the outcomes of the decrease of urinary protein excretion. See this week’s Item #7.

High Carbohydrate Diet Is Dangerous for Women: Women who eat a high-carbohydrate diet — especially if they eat a lot of bread, pizza, jam, and similar products — are at an increased risk of coronary heart disease, researchers said. See this week’s Item #11.

Europe Pushes Ahead of U.S. in Preventing Type 2 Diabetes: Researchers and clinicians from across the UK have been part of a pan-European team that has developed the first Europe-wide strategy for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes. See this week’s Item #14.

FreeStyle Navigator® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System is experiencing a supply interruption and has been unable to provide patients with replacement receivers and transmitters and cannot estimate when the supply of the FreeStyle Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System will resume. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first …

The number of people with diabetes is projected to nearly double by 2034 to 44.1 million due in large part to the aging of the baby boom population and increased rates of overweight and obesity. And if we are not successful in slowing the number of new cases of diabetes …

Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes and another 57 million have pre-diabetes and are at risk of developing the disease. In comparison, 11.4 million Americans have cancer and 1.05 million Americans have HIV. (2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, CDC)

Diabetes is one of the most costly diseases in America, with total direct and indirect costs for diabetes and pre-diabetes estimated at $218 billion in 2007. Currently, only 3.7 percent of the National Institute for Health budget goes to diabetes research, despite the fact that one out of every five …