In September, Living Cell Technologies (LCT) revealed positive results from its JDRF-funded Phase II study of DIABECELL—a unique proprietary encapsulation technology comprised of encapsulated pancreatic islets from pigs.
Rationing test strips shouldn’t be a part of our diabetes management. We must be able to test enough to stay safe and healthy.
Youth with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) exhibit a pattern of regional diffusion tensor imaging differences that is suggestive of axonal injury or degeneration and may be related to episodes of severe hypoglycemia.
They include 32 new treatments for type 1 diabetes, 130 for type 2, 14 for unspecified diabetes and 64 for diabetes-related conditions, says PhRMA, which describes this pipeline as “an exciting new chapter in the ongoing quest to better treat this debilitating disease.”
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers have found a direct correlation between low levels of serum vitamin D3 and onset of type 1 diabetes.
Often the American Diabetes Association (ADA) gets pummeled for promoting high carbohydrate diets. Although as we’ve covered before, the ADA does not even have an official diet.
The later consequences of diabetes, however, which mostly affect the blood vessels and cause cardiovascular conditions such as myocardial infarctions or strokes, are more likely to be fatal.
Stem cells in the adult pancreas have been identified that can be turned into insulin producing cells, a finding that means people with type 1 diabetes might one day be able to regenerate their own insulin-producing cells.
You’re unlikely to get diagnosed with type 2 diabetes if you already have type 1, because it’s hard to measure the difference in blood sugar values, but you can still suffer from both types of diabetes simultaneously.
BD’s latest advancement in injection comfort, PentaPoint is a patented 5-bevel needle tip design that creates a flatter, thinner surface to help penetrate the skin with significantly greater ease.
Diabetic retinopathy refers to changes in the retina (the back of the eye) caused by diabetes. Eye doctors check for retinopathy by dilating or enlarging the pupils with drops. Here’s 5 questions and answers that define and characterize the disease.
A Waikato woman is behind “ground-breaking” research she says could lead to the cure of type 1 diabetes within a year if funding can be found.
A diabetes blogger experience on using the Medtronic MySentry product for a few months.
If you are diabetic, even small foot wounds have the potential for becoming serious ulcers that can lead to amputation if not properly treated.
Adults with diabetes and multi-vessel coronary heart disease who underwent cardiac bypass surgery had better overall heart-related outcomes than those who underwent an artery-opening procedure to improve blood flow to the heart muscle.
Exercise plays an important role in diabetes management, but people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes should take certain precautions before increasing their level of physical activity, experts say.
Patients who had suboptimal glycemic control and reduced their HbA1c value by slightly less than 1% were 50% less likely to die within 5 years than were patients whose HbA1c did not improve.
The misdiagnosis of type 2 in an older patient who really has type 1 or LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes) is becoming more common. It is something that is seen on a regular basis at the Joslin Diabetes Center.
You probably know that eye damage (retinopathy) is a major complication of diabetes. But diabetes can cause blurred vision in several other ways, some of which are reversible.
When it comes to injecting insulin, the stomach, the buttocks, the back of the arm and the thigh have something in common.