Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Lives wasted as FDA stalls on diabetes care (USA)
For more than 20 years, my daughter Piper has lived with the constant, frightening, deceptive and malicious disease called type 1 diabetes. Piper has always been prone to the kind of hypoglycemic - low blood sugar - life-threatening attacks that come on hard, fast and without warning. She almost drowned as a youngster after becoming unconscious from low blood sugar...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/26/ED7H1KEPU9.DTL
Lower is not better in type 2 diabetes (Australia)
A new meta-analysis (see link) has cast further doubt on the benefits of intensive glucose lowering in type 2 diabetes, showing no effect on overall or cardiovascular mortality, and an increase in serious hypoglycaemic episodes.
http://www.6minutes.com.au/news/lower-is-not-better-in-type-2-diabetes
Takeda, Furiex try again in a post-Avandia diabetes drug world (USA)
A type 2 diabetes drug hopefully thought of as a potential blockbuster before stalling amid safety concerns is now taking another shot at approval.
http://www.medcitynews.com/2011/07/...-diabetes-drug-world/?edition=pharmaceuticals
Not enough sunshine is putting millions of us at risk from diabetes (UK)
A lack of sunshine is putting millions of people at risk of diabetes because they don't have enough vitamin D, researchers have said. A large study found that people with plenty of it in their system were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The research, carried out in Australia, could play a major role in combating the condition which has been increasing in recent years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...k-vitamin-D-deficiency.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
For more than 20 years, my daughter Piper has lived with the constant, frightening, deceptive and malicious disease called type 1 diabetes. Piper has always been prone to the kind of hypoglycemic - low blood sugar - life-threatening attacks that come on hard, fast and without warning. She almost drowned as a youngster after becoming unconscious from low blood sugar...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/26/ED7H1KEPU9.DTL
Lower is not better in type 2 diabetes (Australia)
A new meta-analysis (see link) has cast further doubt on the benefits of intensive glucose lowering in type 2 diabetes, showing no effect on overall or cardiovascular mortality, and an increase in serious hypoglycaemic episodes.
http://www.6minutes.com.au/news/lower-is-not-better-in-type-2-diabetes
Takeda, Furiex try again in a post-Avandia diabetes drug world (USA)
A type 2 diabetes drug hopefully thought of as a potential blockbuster before stalling amid safety concerns is now taking another shot at approval.
http://www.medcitynews.com/2011/07/...-diabetes-drug-world/?edition=pharmaceuticals
Not enough sunshine is putting millions of us at risk from diabetes (UK)
A lack of sunshine is putting millions of people at risk of diabetes because they don't have enough vitamin D, researchers have said. A large study found that people with plenty of it in their system were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The research, carried out in Australia, could play a major role in combating the condition which has been increasing in recent years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...k-vitamin-D-deficiency.html?ito=feeds-newsxml