Worry
'ups men's diabetes risk' - July 28, 2008
Researchers found men with high levels of 'psychological distress' had more
than double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those with low levels.
The study, which looked at 2,127 men born between 1938 and 1957 and 3,100
women, found no such link in women.
Emeryville
firm devises Diabetes Risk Test - May 27, 2008
An Emeryville
biomedical company is about to market a test that it hopes will reduce the
terrible health toll of the U.S.
diabetes epidemic and, at the same time, slash the nation's costs for medical
care.
The diagnostic test
to be launched next month by Tethys Bioscience is designed to pick up early
signs that a patient will develop the most common type of diabetes - while
there's still time to prevent that from happening.
Fat Builds Up in Hearts Before Diabetes Onset -
September 4, 2007
Fat
starts to build up in the hearts of pre-diabetic people before either diabetes
or heart disease symptoms appear, according to a new study.
Diabetes fears over corn syrup in soda -
Septemeber 4, 2007
It's
not cast-iron proof that high-fructose corn syrup causes diabetes, but new
evidence suggests we should think twice about using it to sweeten soft drinks.
Research:
Type 2 diabetes could be cured by surgery -
September 3, 2007
Surgeons
performing duodenal exclusions on obese people with diabetes have noticed that
in around 98 percent of cases, the patients' diabetes spontaneously vanished a
few weeks after surgery.
Diabetes
Foot Thermometer - August
16, 2007