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Women who live alone may tend to be more socially isolated, which could in turn affect their lifestyle habits.

Transition Therapeutics Inc. announced that a study demonstrating E1-I.N.T.(TM) can stimulate the regeneration of human islet cells.

New test has the potential to be as significant to health care as measuring cholesterol levels.

Average individual improvement was 41% over the study period.

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that subtle change in nerve conduction is the first reliable sign of nerve complications from diabetes and that this change can be measured long before other symptoms or signs of nerve damage develop.Study Clarifies Insulin’s

Studies showed that mono therapy of metformin had 85% fewer deaths and hospitalizations then sulfonylurea.

Using metformin alone can improve control of blood glucose, while also reducing risk factors for heart disease such as excess body weight, cholesterol levels and hypertension.

The findings support the central role of insulin resistance in the development of endothelial dysfunction and the role of metformin for the treatment of patients with metabolic syndrome.

Improves bloods sugars, cholesterol and has the potential to prevent pre-diabetic patients developing Type 2 diabetes along with cardiovascular and metabolic complications of the disease.

Masaru Taniguchi and colleagues in Japan report that transplanted insulin-producing cells survive better when the activation of a specific type of immune cell is blocked.