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Abbott announced last week that it received European CE Mark approval for the FreeStyle Navigator(R) Continuous Glucose Monitoring System for people with diabetes. U.S. Approval should also happen soon.

Julio C. Voltarelli, MD, PhD, from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has been working on using stem cells for reversing Type 1 diabetes. Recently his group had success with a small number of patients. To find the results and see what other experts say read Stem Cell Treatment …

The results of a new study suggest an association between nephropathy in type 1 diabetes and a higher prevalence of parental hypertension, diabetes, and stroke and paternal mortality.Sleep Apnea Increases

Dramatic” losses of a key biochemical substance in heart muscle tissue occur in the very earliest stages of diabetes, according to a new study. 

Patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes, telmisartan and ramipril both may help preserve cardiovascular and renal function by increasing nitric oxide (NO) activity of the renal endothelium, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

Analysts at Prescriber’s Letter say that crunching the study’s numbers reveals only part of the story. Since this report is a meta-analysis, it is merely a study of prior study results.

Retinaldehyde (Rald), a metabolite of vitamin A, increases the generation of adipose tissue and decreases insulin sensitivity, work conducted in a Harvard University laboratory shows.

Ongoing research in cell regeneration suggests that insulin-producing islets cells may have the ability to regenerate under certain conditions.

Scientists at Swansea University School of Medicine have been funded to investigate why weight-reducing surgery can lead to the almost immediate disappearance of diabetes in patients even before any weight loss.

A new oral insulin is being used to prevent Type 1 diabetes at the University of Florida.