Diabetes Cure Blog

Living Cell Technologies Limited has today released the results of their DiabeCell(R) trials on Six patients with insulin dependent (type 1) diabetes. The company has released the results describing clinical benefit of the Company’s encapsulated porcine islet cells for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

According to the scientists of the University of Michigan, they have created a new instrument called as FA device which is capable of detecting the metabolic stress and tissue damage that occurs long before the first symptoms of the diabetes.

According to the announcement done on 22 of July 2008, by Santarus Inc.(a renowned San Deigo based company), they have signed an agreement with Depomed Inc. to promote Glumetza (a diabetic drug ) in the U.S market.

The new course created by the Kronos Optimal Health Company may help the prediabetic patients to avoid Diabetes.

A team of researchers at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and other of their counterparts in the USA, have found that the rosiglitazone (Avandia) treated diabetes patients are less likely to develop proliferative diabetic retinopathy. The researchers have tested the records of nearly 124 patients treated with rosiglitazone and compared them with records of 158 [...]

At the two day meeting on the standard of diabetes drug, the FDA officials have decided that the testing standard on the type 2 diabetes drug should more thorough to avoid the risk of heart problems. The panel of outside experts voted 14-to-2, at the end of a two-day meeting, to recommend that all makers [...]

A prominent medical expert, Cardiologist Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to raise its standards for approving diabetes drugs on Tuesday. Nissen said that companies need to prove new drugs don’t increase cardiovascular disease, the leading killer of diabetics. Nissen suggested that, in addition to requiring more [...]

Researchers in the the department of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that molecular malfunction may be the reason behind the development of high blood pressure, diabetes and immune problems. Rogue versions of enzymes known as proteases roam the body, clipping off working segments of the receptors that allow [...]

The Food And Drug Administration officials are likely to have a meeting to discuss the proper regulations for the diabetes medicines. They are likely to make the rules and regulations tougher. They reconsider the Government regulations after they were criticized last year for their handling of heart risks connected with a widely used GlaxoSmithKline [...]

The recent study by the team of researchers at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, have found relation between diabetes and dementia. The study has established that the older people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to suffer from mental decline as they age. So far many studies have shown the relation between [...]