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By Cornell University
For years, researchers have known that obesity, type 2 diabetes and low-level inflammation are linked, but how they are connected has not been well understood. A recent Cornell-led study has found that a type of immune cells — called natural… Read More
Article: "Improving mood, blood sugar in diabetes with naturopathic care"
By Petra Rattue
About 26 million Americans suffer from type 2 diabetes. A study in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine has now revealed that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), in adjunction to conventional medicine, holds various positive benefits for people with type 2… Read More
Article: "Diabetes groups issue new guidelines on blood sugar"
By Serena Gordon
Type 2 illness can’t be treated with one-size-fits-all approach, new recommendations advise Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder, and treating the disease often requires a personalized, multi-pronged approach, say new expert guidelines on treating high blood sugar levels,… Read More
Article: "Licorice root found to contain anti-diabetic substance"
Source: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
It provides the raw material for liquorice candy, calms the stomach and alleviates diseases of the airways: liquorice root. The root has been treasured in traditional healing since ancient times. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in… Read More
Article: "Molecular switch to offer target for new diabetes therapies"
Researchers at Salk Institute have found a molecular switch that controls liver glucose production. This research may show a new avenue for treating insulin resistant type-2 diabetes. According to the scientists, these two molecules when controlled could potentially offer an… Read More
Article: "Scientists uncover novel gene’s key role in type 2 diabetes"
Using computational methods, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have strongly implicated a novel gene in the triggering of type-2 diabetes. Their experiments in lab mice and in human blood and tissue samples further showed that this gene not only… Read More
Article: "Company says diabetes drug Victoza superior to rival drug"
Danish Novo Nordisk, the world’s biggest insulin producer, said on Friday it had received a product label update for diabetes drug Victoza to include data showing superior efficacy when compared with rival drug Januvia from Merck. The U.S. Food and… Read More
Article: "GSK says new data support filing of diabetes drug"
GlaxoSmithKline will push ahead with plans to file its experimental once-weekly diabetes drug albiglutide for regulatory approval, following the read-out from a series of clinical trials. Albiglutide belongs to the same class of injectable GLP-1 medicines as Novo Nordisk’s Victoza… Read More
Article: "New insulin drug should ease doctors’ fears"
Improvements to insulin are benefiting patients and should ease fears of doctors reluctant to prescribe the drug to diabetes sufferers. Recent research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada revealed many physicians shy away from insulin, despite its success in… Read More
Article: "Fat cells protect our body against diabetes"
Researchers have shed light on how fat cells protect the body against diabetes – the finding that may lead to a new therapeutic strategy for preventing and treating type 2 diabetes and obesity-related metabolic diseases. In the last decade, several… Read More
