2006 Diabetes News

Latest Articles from 2006 about Diabetes:

• New Potential Gene Therapy Treatment Of Type I Diabetes
  Researchers at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and the Baylor Research Institute have developed a novel technique to deliver insulin genes to the pancreas, the organ that produces the body's insulin.
  
  
• Medtronic Gets OK for Insulin Pump with Glucose Monitor
  17-APR-2006 Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. on Thursday said it had received regulatory approval for an insulin pump with a continuous glucose monitoring system for treating insulin-dependent diabetes.
  
  
• Diabetic Monitoring Study Finds Inaccuracies in Improperly Coded Blood Glucose Meters as high as 43%
  April 17, 2006 Coding, or calibrating, is the process by which a blood glucose meter is matched with the reactivity of the diabetic test strips. To ensure the accuracy of diabetic monitoring results...
  
  
• Diabetes Documentary Shines Light Around the World
  April 13, 2006 Florence is an actor and filmmaker who is best known as the woman who dances with Ellen Degeneres in an American Express commercial. She has had Type 1 diabetes for almost 40 years
  
  
• The Ultimate Show–and-Tell: Former Hoops Star Participates in ACCU-CHEK Take Chris Dudley to School Contest for Parents of Children with Diabetes
  April 5, 2006 Roche Diagnostics, the maker of ACCU-CHEK® products and services for people with diabetes, announces the ACCU-CHEK Take Chris Dudley to School contest for parents of children with diabetes in grades 5 to 8 (for the 2006 school year)
  
  
• Diabetics with Vision Problems Can Now Get a Free Blood Glucose Meter with Audio Readings
  March 29, 2006 Since vision problems with diabetes are common it is often hard for these diabetics to read their blood glucose meters. Diabetics now have another option for home blood glucose testing.
  
  
• 6995Diabetes.com Targets the Uninsured with Discount Diabetes Testing Kit
  March 13, 2006 Studies estimate that 45 million Americans are now uninsured and 10s of millions fall under the category of underinsured. 6995Diabetes.com has responded to these escalating numbers by offering monthly diabetes testing supply kits for $69.95 each, a reduced rate now available to customers regardless of insurance status.
  
  
• dLifeTV Brings dbaza Educational Product to a Nationwide Audience
  March 9, 2006 dLife – For Your Diabetes Life television talk show brings the dbaza diabetes education product to a nationwide audience.
  
  
• Researchers discover link between insulin and Alzheimer's
  7-Mar-2005: Discovery that insulin is produced in the brain raises possibility of Type 3 diabetes
  
  
• Smoking Not Good With New Inhaled Insulin
  21-FEB-2006 Smoking leads to major changes in the absorption of the newly approved inhaled insulin, Exubera, German and US researchers warn
  
  
• FDA Approves First Ever Inhaled Insulin Combination Product for Treatment of Diabetes
  January 27, 2006 Exubera, an inhaled powder form of recombinant human insulin (rDNA) for the treatment of adult patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, is the first new insulin delivery option introduced since the discovery of insulin in the 1920s
  
  
• American Diabetes Services Offers Free Diabetes Recipes for Optimal Diabetes Weight Management
  January 25, 2006 Boca Raton, FL, If your New Year’s resolution is to help control your diabetes through diet and nutrition, American Diabetes Services wants to help.
  
  
• Diabetes – What You REALLY Need to Know
  01/20/2006 Put simply, diabetes is the inability of the body to process sugars and starches properly. When we eat or drink our pancreas produces a hormone called insulin.
  
  
• 'Quilt for Life' Display Set For Washington D.C. Mall -- Children's Colorful and Emotional Quilts Show True Face of Diabetes
  01/17/2006 Smiles. Lots of smiles. All are in the Quilt for Life, part of Children with Diabetes. For many, diabetes is about numbers. For us, diabetes is about Marissa and Sam and Lori and Justin and the tens of thousands of other children with diabetes.
  
  
• Discovery Of Glucagon Secretion Mechanism May Lead To Improved Therapies For Diabetic Hyperglycemia
  14 Jan 2006 A University of Toronto research team directed by Professor Qinghua Wang has discovered a mechanism for secretion of the hormone glucagon, which could facilitate the development of new drug therapies for diabetic hyperglycemia
  
  
• Neuropathy Mystery Solved
  January 12, 2006 Patients have reported success in reducing the pain and numbness of peripheral neuropathy, restless leg syndrome, MS, Post Polio Syndrome, lower back and sciatic nerve pain.
  
  
• Boosting Stem Cells To Treat Diabetes
  Feb 5, 2005 Emmanuel (Manolis) Tzanakakis, Ph.D., is striving to boost the numbers of stem cells produced in the laboratory, expanding the pool of cells that eventually can be differentiated into insulin-producing cells.