Category Archives: Diabetes

Largest diabetes gene search finds 12 new links

LONDON (Reuters) – An international team of scientists working on the largest study to date to look at DNA and type 2 diabetes say they have found 12 new gene links that offer important clues to how the chronic disease works. Continue reading

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Scientists Tease Out Links Between Diabetes, Cancer (HealthDay)

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) — People with diabetes may have something else to be concerned about — an increased risk of cancer, according to a new consensus report produced by experts recruited jointly by the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association. Continue reading

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Eating eggs doesn’t seem to up diabetes risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An egg a day for breakfast probably won’t increase your likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Continue reading

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Mental decline from diabetes can start in middle age

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diabetes can lead to a decline in memory, thinking speed, and mental flexibility in middle age, but controlling the blood sugar disorder might prevent some of these effects, new research from the Netherlands suggests. Continue reading

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Glaxo’s Avandia increases heart risks: U.S. reviewer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An analysis by U.S. government scientists found GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s controversial diabetes drug Avandia increased heart risks and deaths compared to a rival pill, according to an email from a Food and Drug Administration reviewer who worked on the study. Continue reading

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Half doses of diabetes drugs can prevent disease

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Low doses of GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia combined with metformin can prevent diabetes without causing the most common side-effects, Canadian doctors reported on Wednesday. Continue reading

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Half doses of diabetes drugs can prevent disease

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Low doses of GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia combined with metformin can prevent diabetes without causing the most common side-effects, Canadian doctors reported on Wednesday. Continue reading

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Glaxo settles more Avandia lawsuits in U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline Plc has settled thousands more lawsuits brought by patients alleging its Avandia diabetes drug caused heart attacks, in a move that may defuse potentially massive claims over the medicine. Continue reading

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Drinking alcohol can lower chance of diabetes: study

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Healthy adults who drink one to two glasses of alcohol per day have a smaller chance of developing one form of diabetes than those who abstain from alcohol, according to Dutch research published on Tuesday. Continue reading

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Study links viral infection to juvenile diabetes

LONDON (Reuters) – Italian scientists have found a significant link between juvenile diabetes and a common virus that usually only causes a mild infection — a discovery that may give clues as to what triggers the disease. Continue reading

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