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Diabetes Mellitus Defined
A common form of diabetes in which the body cannot properly store or use glucose (sugar), the body's main source of energy
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Nearly Nine Out Of Ten Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Achieve QoF HbA1c Targets With Repaglinide And Metformin
Published July 20, 2008, 1:13 am, Medical News Today
Nearly nine out of ten patients with type 2 diabetes achieved the Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF) HbA1c target of less than 7.5% with a repaglinide [PRANDIN®] and metformin treatment strategy says a new study review published in Clinical Therapeutics(1).
Akesis Pharmaceuticals Names Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc to its Scientific Advisory Board
Published July 18, 2008, 7:15 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
SAN DIEGO----Akesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , an emerging metabolic disease drug development company, today announced it has appointed Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc, to its scientific advisory board .
Teva Enrolls Patients For A Second Large Global Phase III Trial Of Oral Laquinimod
Published July 17, 2008, 2:07 am, Medical News Today
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) and Active Biotech AB (OMX NORDIC: ACTI) announced that patients are being enrolled for the BRAVO Phase III pivotal trial.
DGCA wants cabin crews to fly light. Literally
Published July 16, 2008, 2:52 pm, Express India
Size does matter. And the DGCA seems to have kept this in mind while laying down latest norms for the airline crews.
Long Acting Insulin: Safer, Slightly Tighter Glucose Control In Type 1 Diabetes
Published July 16, 2008, 3:06 am, Medical News Today
Introduced this decade, the long-acting insulin medications glargine and detemir have largely replaced the older intermediate-acting insulin NPH in the treatment of type 1 diabetes. However, a review of studies reveals that the newer drugs offer only a slight benefit over NPH in terms of blood glucose control.
Teva Enrolls Patients for a Second Large Global Phase III Trial of Oral Laquinimod
Published July 15, 2008, 11:45 pm, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
JERUSALEM & LUND, Sweden----Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Active Biotech AB announced today that patients are being enrolled for the BRAVO Phase III pivotal trial. BRAVO is a global, 24-month, double-blind study designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the oral compound laquinimod versus placebo, and to provide risk-benefit data for laquinimod versus a currently ...
Long-Acting Insulin: Safer, Slightly Tighter Glucose Control in Type 1 Diabetes
Published July 15, 2008, 4:23 pm, Newswise
A review of studies reveals that the newer, long-acting insulin medications offer only a slight benefit over NPH in terms of blood glucose control in type 1 diabetes. Researchers did see a clear benefit of long-acting insulin in reducing the risk for hypoglycemia, particularly at night.
Diabetes increases TB risk, says study
Published July 15, 2008, 1:15 pm, HT via Yahoo! India News
A NEW study shows that diabetes increases the risk of tuberculosis (TB) threefold, and the finding makes it important that India, which has the world's highest number of people afflicted with both conditions, carries out a systematic assessment of the link.
Studies show that diabetes increases risk of tuberculosis
Published July 15, 2008, 2:48 am, PhysOrg
People with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), according to an analysis published in PLoS Medicine.
Diabetes May Increase Tuberculosis Risk
Published July 15, 2008, 1:05 am, Medical News Today
A new paper published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine finds that people with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB). Diabetes mellitus is characterized by abnormally high blood sugar level due to insufficient amounts of the insulin hormone, and TB is an infectious disease that usually attacks the lungs.
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- Diabetes Treatments : Glycemic Control with Incretin Mimetics (Byetta, or Exenatide)
- Incretins in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Incretin Mimetics and Analogues for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2): Rete Biomed, Medical Publications Consultants
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- Viral infection and diabetes mellitus: enteroviruses implicated including coxsackie A, B and echoviruses
- Age-Dependent Influences on the Origins of Autoimmune Diabetes: Etiology of autoimmune diseases - for type 1 diabetes, factors also include overcrowding in childhood and virus infections, early exposure to cow's milk<se p/>
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- DIABETES TIPS: Excellent resources about diabetes and much more tips and medicine.
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