Diabetes News

Thousands turn out for diabetes walk (The Indianapolis Star) The track and field stadium at IUPUI was a sea of colors today as thousands of people showed up to walk in the 10th annual Indiana Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation "Walk to Cure Diabetes. A Research with Diabetes (News From Bangladesh) Fighting with diabetes ...

Lilly Says U.S. Requests Added Study on Diabetes Drug (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Eli Lilly & Co. said it is ``weighing options'' after U.S. regulators requested a further study of the company's experimental drug for blindness caused by diabetes. Lilly Says U.S. Requests Added Study on Diabetes Drug (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Sept. ...

If you're paying attention, just about every few days, you can learn about yet another connection between eating those culprit, quickie carbs and developing one health condition after another. Did you know, for instance, that the more of those fast-acting carbs you eat, the higher your triglyceride levels will be? (Trigylcercides are a fat found in your blood.) What's more, did you know that high triglycerides are an independent risk factor for heart disease, according to a whopping 89 percent of physicians interviewed for a first-of-its-kind study recently conducted by the National Lipid Association (NLA) survey of over 2,000 patients...

If you're paying attention, just about every few days, you can learn about yet another connection between eating those culprit, quickie carbs and developing one health condition after another. Did you know, for instance, that the more of those fast-acting carbs you eat, the higher your triglyceride levels will be? (Trigylcercides are a fat found in your blood.) What's more, did you know that high triglycerides are an independent risk factor for heart disease, according to a whopping 89 percent of physicians interviewed for a first-of-its-kind study recently conducted by the National Lipid Association (NLA) survey of over 2,000 patients...

Here's another fascinating item. The Federal Communications Commission plans to study the link between all that TV watching and the rise in obesity, the AP reported. The FCC even made a whole official announcement about it. Here's what AP reporter Sam Hananel wrote: Small children can't weed out the marketing messages from their favorite shows, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Wednesday at a news conference. Especially when the marketing campaigns feature favorite TV characters like SpongeBob or Scooby-Doo. Interesting. Frankly, I think it would be heck of a lot easier to just ban TV commercials for all that junk food....

I'm completely swamped this week, attending the National Publicity Summit, where I'm meeting some 70 members of the media--The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC News, Woman's Day, Star Magazine, you name it--etc., etc.-- to talk about my upcoming book, SUGAR SHOCK! Anyhow, my research assistant Jennifer Moore is being my eyes and ears and taking special pains to ferret out some interesting blog items for me. Here's something she sent me yesterday, but I was too wiped out earlier to post it: The NY Times has an article today about how parents and nannies struggle over what to feed...

Transplants of Insulin-Producing Cells Improve Severe Diabetes (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Patients with complications from the most severe form of diabetes may benefit from transplants of pancreatic cells that produce insulin, even if it doesn't free them from a lifetime of insulin shots, researchers said. Islet Cell Transplants Not Cure for ...

Women being warned of pre-diabetes risks (Miami Herald) Getting fatter around the middle? Have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? You could be headed for the same trouble, especially if you're over 40 and female. Molokai hospital wins diabetes certification (Pacific Business News) The American Diabetes Association certificate for a quality ...

Women being warned of pre-diabetes risks (Miami Herald) Getting fatter around the middle? Have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? You could be headed for the same trouble, especially if you're over 40 and female. Molokai hospital wins diabetes certification (Pacific Business News) The American Diabetes Association certificate for a quality ...

Interesting research about the diabetes-obesity connection has just been released from scientists at the University of Kentucky and Atlanta's Emory University. As WebMD reported, obesity is a major cause of early death, but a new study published in Critical Care, suggests that this occurs only in people who have diabetes. In other words, if you have diabetes, you're three times more likely as folks without it to develop a life-threatening critical illness and die prematurely. But, if you're obese but do not have diabetes, you have the same risk of dying or getting organ failure as normal-weight people without the...