Ask Joslin: Why does diabetes cause dry, itchy skin?
Although simple dry skin may be a result of washing your hands with drying soap or alcohol based cleansers too frequently, it can also be a sign of high blood glucose.
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Diabetes Forecast – Glucose Products 2014
Sweet gels, tablets, liquids, and bits for treating lows efficiently. Soft drinks and fruit juice can treat lows, but there are also products specifically designed to provide glucose for lows. These glucose sources are fat free, which may help speed the absorption of sugar, and the carbohydrate grams are counted for you.
NPR – Blood Pressure Ruckus Reveals Big Secret In Medicine
There has been a carefully guarded secret in medicine: Evidence is often inconclusive, and experts commonly disagree about what it means. Most medical decisions aren’t cut and dried. Instead they’re usually made with uncertainty about what is best for each person.
MNT – Discovery could lead to a test to predict later development of type 2 diabetes
A Montreal research team led by Jennifer Estall at the IRCM discovered that a protein found in muscle tissue may contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes later in life. The study’s results, published in the printed edition of the scientific journal American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism, indicate that the protein […]
DiabetesInControl – Research: Can Bariatric Surgery Really Cure TII Diabetes?
A retrospective review was conducted for all patients that have undergone bariatric surgery between January 2004 and December 2007 at the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute. These patients had type 2 diabetes prior to the operation, and have had at least 5 years of follow-up.
Ask D’Mine: Of Patch Pumps and Basal Rates
You may remember that last week, Wil offered his thoughts on insulin pump bolusing as part of a two-week focus on pump questions. This week, we’ve got a patch-pump-specific query that’s kind of a brain-teaser… so read on, and please offer any of your own input too!
Diabetes Self-Management – Potential A1C Test Alternative; Glucose Meter Recall
According to a new study published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, measurements of substances known as fructosamine and glycated albumin might be useful for predicting a person’s risk of developing diabetes complications.
Google unveils ‘smart contact lens’ to help diabetics
Revealing their prototype, which has been in the works for the past 18 months, Google X lab members and project co-founders Brian Otis and Babak Parviz write through their company blog that many of they people they have talked to “say managing their diabetes is like having a part-time job.”
Huffpost – The Unbelievable Amount Of Sugar In ‘Healthy’ Juice
The isolated sugar from fruit looks very much like sugar from any other source — it is merely a mixture of fructose and glucose, to which your body responds identically.
ScienceDaily – Research: Potential for New Fructosamine Tests in Long-Term Diabetes Complications
Monitoring glucose levels is imperative for diabetes patients, but for some the standard Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) test is not valid. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have determined that the fructosamine tests and a novel assay for glycated albumin may be useful for predicting complications related to diabetes.
16 Snacks That Pack A Protein Punch
According to the CDC, Women over 19 need 46 grams of protein a day, and men over age 19 need 56 grams of protein a day. Not sure if you’re meeting your minimum? Then you probably aren’t.
BBC – Pump it up! Weightlifting ‘cuts diabetes risk in women’
The findings come from a study that tracked the health of nearly 100,000 US nurses over a period of eight years. Lifting weights, doing press-ups or similar resistance exercises to give the muscles a workout was linked with a lower risk of diabetes, the work in PLoS Medicine shows.
HuffPost – 10 Ways Your Personality Affects Your Weight
Whether you’re the life of the party, a bookworm or a night owl, your personality plays a surprisingly large role in your ability to slim down. Follow this guide to discover your personality type and use your own characteristics to lose weight and keep it off for good.
Diabetes Forecast – Medicare 101: Tips for Signing Up With Diabetes
Everyone’s path through Medicare is different, and the road you take depends on your health care priorities. Under Medicare, you have different options to consider for how you want to receive your benefits. If you’re keen to keep seeing a beloved endocrinologist, you’ll focus on retaining access to your current providers.
DiabetesHealth – When Doctors Don’t Listen: Tell Your Story
Dr. Leana Wen is the co-author of “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests,” a text she wrote with Joshua Kosowsky, MD. The book arose from their frustration at the number of tests modern medicine seems to require, often with no useful results or help in arriving at a diagnosis. In […]
DiabetesHealth – Many Type 2s Never Warned About Threats to Vision
More than half of adults with type 2 diabetes who are at risk of vision loss from their condition have not been advised by their doctors of the danger.
New T1DM Treatment From DiaVacs Inc Gets Orphan Drug Status
DV-0100 is proprietary, novel and safe. The therapy halts the body’s autoimmune reaction against the pancreatic islet cells which are responsible for producing insulin, allowing them to produce insulin normally and reversing the trajectory of the disease.
DiabetesInControl – Research: Chronic Fatigue Common in T1DM
Researchers investigated the prevalence and impact of chronic fatigue in T1DM patients and compared those results to a matching control group. The study also aimed to find potential determinants of chronic fatigue. Chronic fatigue is defined as persisting for at least 6 months and leading to impairment of daily function.
ScienceDaily – Why Is Type 2 Diabetes an Increasing Problem?
Contrary to a common belief, researchers have shown that genetic regions associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes were unlikely to have been beneficial to people at stages through human evolution.
Cleveland Clinic – New Drugs Make TII Diabetics Pee Out Excess Sugar
SGLT2 inhibitors act by blocking the kidneys’ reabsorption of sugar, or glucose. The result is that more glucose is released in the urine and the patient’s blood glucose level goes down — a major goal of diabetes treatment.
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