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Your Metformin May Smell Fishy: If your metformin smells like the inside of an inner tube or week old fish, you’re not the only one. If you regularly take metformin, one of the oldest and most respected tools in doctors’ anti-diabetes kits, chances are that you don’t detect the unpleasant …

Supplementing with Omega-3’s Can Reduce Blood Glucose: In subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, six weeks of supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids reduced the postprandial decrease in macrovascular function relative to placebo, and improved postprandial microvascular function, according to a recent German study In a double blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover …

New Trend Developing — “Constant Eating”:According to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, American kids are developing a trend toward “constant eating.” Most kids eat three snacks a day in addition to three meals a day. Researchers feel that this is a contributing factor …

Diabetes Vaccine This Decade. See this week’s Item #3. Diabetes Diagnosis to Soar with A1c Switch for Diagnosis. See this week’s Item #1.

Of all Americans aged 65 and older, 3 out of 4 have diabetes or pre-diabetes, according to the CDC. Since the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Medicare covers free screening tests for diabetes and pre-diabetes for at-risk seniors. However, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data …

Obesity and Diabetes Rates Raise Concerns: A quarter of all deaths in England over the past three decades had obesity as an underlying cause, according to a new study. Figures published in the European Journal of Public Health indicate that between 1995 and 2006, obesity-related death rates rose by an …

Hearing Loss Twice as Likely with Diabetes: People with diabetes are twice as likely to have hearing loss as those who do not have diabetes, says the National Institutes of Health landmark study and recommends that all men and women with diabetes have their hearing tested. Based on the findings …

Causal Effects of Diabetes and Cancer: Four reports in Diabetologia presented data on the association between hypoglycaemic agents and the risk of cancer. One study showed a higher risk of cancer overall in subjects with diabetes receiving insulin or sulfonylureas than in those on metformin. In another study, the risk …

Early Pregnancy Weight Gain Linked to Diabetes. See this week’s Item #2. LifeScan Recalls Specific Lots of Consumer and Professional OneTouch(R) SureStep(R) Test Strips Due To Inaccurate Readings at High Levels. See Press Release here. Amylin announced that the FDA has extended the PDUFA date for Byetta LAR from March …

Walnuts Improve Cardiovascular Health for Those with Type 2 Diabetes: According to a new Diabetes Care study, eating 2 ounces of walnuts per day as part of a normal diet may improve cardiovascular health in people with Type 2 diabetes. Previous studies demonstrated the potential benefit of walnuts in promoting …