People with diabetes, and physicians treating them, have become excited in recent years by insulin analogs due to their rapid window of action but recent research from Generex Biotechnology shows that the advantages of insulin analogs may be illusory.
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Hope for Advanced Diabetic Patients- Metabolic Activation Therapy
Vanessa M. Justino, Dr. of Pharmacy Candidate University of Florida had an opportunity to spend some time at the Advanced Diabetes Treatment Center in Tampa where they use a therapy called MATS to help reverse the effects of diabetes. She was fascinated by what she learned and has prepared a …
Read More »CORRECTION: VA Diabetes Trial Shows That Intensive Glucose Control Has Little Effect on Cardiovascular Risk
The original version erroneously linked rosiglitazone to excess deaths in the ACCORD trial.
Read More »Standard’ Fasting Glucose Test May Be Wrong One for Obese Children
The current standard screening test for prediabetes in children often fails to detect the condition, Canadian researchers contend.
Read More »Severe Insulin Resistance Linked to Complications of Pregnancy and Birth
A study of women with gestational diabetes has demonstrated that insulin resistance is associated with an increased risk for adverse outcomes in pregnancy and birth for mothers and newborns.
Read More »Weight-Loss Vs. Glucose Control
Principal investigator Dr. Osama Hamdy told the audience at the ADA scientific sessions that, “We’ve been glucose-focused for a long time. We need to be weight-focused. We need to focus on the cause of the problem and not the result of the problem.”
Read More »Coffee Intake Not Linked to Increased Mortality in Men or Women
Coffee intake does not increase the risk for all-cause mortality in men or women and may decrease risk for cardiovascular mortality, according to the results of a new study.
Read More »Weight Loss With Gastric Bypass Is Key to Easing Diabetes
Patients who dropped most pounds went off diabetes meds and into remission, study found
Read More »High Postprandial Levels Independently Associated With Mortality
Results of a new study show which information from oral glucose tolerance tests can be used independently predict mortality.
Read More »More Evidence of Increased Fractures With Thiazolidinediones
Further evidence that long-term use of the thiazolidinediones rosiglitazone and pioglitazone may increase risk of fractures (particularly of the hip and wrist) has come from a new case-control study.
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