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News: February 14, 2012
CDC Warns Against Sharing Insulin Pens
FRIDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Due to a growing number of reports about improper use of insulin pens, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a reminder that the devices must never be used on more than one person. Using...
Novel Stem Cell Treatment May Hold Promise for Type 1 Diabetes
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A new type of stem cell treatment for people with type 1 diabetes appears to help re-educate rogue immune system cells, which allows cells in the pancreas to start producing insulin again. The treatment, whic...
Holiday Travel Tips for People With Diabetes
FRIDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) -- If you have diabetes and plan on traveling this holiday season, there are certain things you need to do to safeguard your health, says a University of Alabama at Birmingham expert. "I tell patients, especially t...
A Life-Saving Lesson That Took Decades to Learn
FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors diagnosed Ronda Keys with type 2 diabetes when she was 19 years old and a student at the University of Maryland. Now 38 and living in Montgomery Village, Md., Keys had been suffering the classic symptoms...
Intensive Control of Type 1 Diabetes Helps Kidneys: Study
SATURDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- People with type 1 diabetes who maintain tighter control of their blood sugar levels help protect their kidneys from long-term damage, finds a new study. Those treated early with more intensive diabetes manage...
Asthma Can Complicate Diabetes Care in Kids
MONDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Children hit with the double whammy of type 1 diabetes and asthma have an especially tough time keeping their blood sugar under control, a new study finds. The reason why asthma might complicate pediatric diabe...
Certain Risk Factors Could Spur Heart Failure in Normal-Weight People
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Normal-weight patients diagnosed with a cluster of factors known as the "metabolic syndrome" could face a higher risk for heart failure than even obese patients without such factors, new research suggests. M...
Life Expectancy Improves for Type 1 Diabetics
SATURDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Advances in diabetes care have nearly eliminated the difference in life expectancy between people with type 1 diabetes and the general population, according to new research. Life expectancy at birth for someon...
Class of Drugs Linked to Higher Heart Risk in Older Diabetics
SATURDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that older people with type 2 diabetes who take drugs known as sulfonylureas to lower their blood sugar levels may face a higher risk for heart problems than their counterparts who take metf...
Fat Cats, Dogs Developing Diabetes, Report Finds
FRIDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Like all good pet owners, Christine Wong didn't hesitate to go to a veterinary clinic near her home in Austin, Texas, when her cat, Kiki, wasn't feeling well. "She just wasn't acting like herself," recalled Wong.
New Clues to How Gastric Bypass Surgery Combats Diabetes
WEDNESDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Gastric bypass surgery has been known to improve blood sugar control, often sending people with type 2 diabetes into remission, but experts have long wondered exactly how that happens. Now, a new study provi...
Do Immune System Ills Help Drive Type 2 Diabetes?
SUNDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes may be linked to an immune system reaction gone awry. "The main point of this study is trying to shift the emphasis in thinki...
Latest Artificial Pancreas Trials Reduce Risk of Low Blood Sugar
THURSDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- In the latest research to test the concept of an artificial pancreas for the management of type 1 diabetes, British researchers report that they were able to improve blood sugar control and reduce the risk of...
Nick Jonas Lives Large, Despite Diabetes
FRIDAY, March 25 (HealthDay News) -- Teen superstar Nick Jonas may be the picture of health today, but five years ago his body was wasting away. Even at 13, Jonas knew something was wrong. He just didn't know what. That something was type 1 diabet...
New Drug May Trim Insulin Injections to Just 3 a Week
WEDNESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- A preliminary study reports that people with diabetes were able to get injections of a new insulin drug just three times a week without major ill effects. The findings still need to be confirmed in another ph...
Injectable, Oral Birth Control Don't Threaten Glucose, Insulin Levels: Study
MONDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Injectable and oral birth control do not significantly affect a woman's fasting glucose and insulin levels, according to a new research. The three-year study is the largest to measure fasting glucose and insulin...
Sperm-Producing Cells Coaxed to Produce Insulin
SUNDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have been able to prod human cells that normally produce sperm to make insulin instead and, after transplanting them, the cells briefly cured mice with type 1 diabetes. "The goal is to coax these cel...
Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked to Lower Lung Cancer Rate in Mice
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A drug widely used to treat high blood sugar in type 2 diabetics may hold some promise in the prevention of tobacco-induced lung cancer, according to extremely preliminary findings in a mouse study. In the Se...
Long-Term Type 1 Diabetes 'Survivors' Give Clues to the Disease
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Although it's long been thought that people with type 1 diabetes cease to produce any insulin after they've had the disease for a while, new research suggests that the insulin-producing beta cells destroyed b...
Insulin Pump With Blood Sugar Sensor May Improve on Injections
TUESDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- Type 1 diabetics who used an insulin pump and a sensor that continuously monitored their blood sugar levels had better control over their illness than people taking insulin injections, a large clinical trial fi...
Artificial Pancreas Continues to Show Promise
SUNDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that artificial pancreas technology can help diabetics gain greater blood sugar control overnight, even when they have eaten a big meal or had wine for dinner. The promise of this emerging ...
Drug Helps Tackle Type 2 Diabetes in New Way, Study Says
THURSDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug, the first in its class, gives added blood sugar control to people with type 2 diabetes who are already taking the glucose-lowering medication metformin. The new agent, dapagliflozin, which also hel...
Scientists Tease Out Links Between Diabetes, Cancer
WEDNESDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- People with diabetes may have something else to be concerned about -- an increased risk of cancer, according to a new consensus report produced by experts recruited jointly by the American Cancer Society and ...
Caring for Diabetic Pets Helps Humans Get Healthier
FRIDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Daniela Trnka had been living with type 1 diabetes for almost 20 years when she noticed telltale signs of the disease in her Siberian Husky, Cooper. He was thirsty, urinating often and at times, lethargic. So she...
One Sleepless Night Ups Insulin Resistance
THURSDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to the many reasons why people should get adequate sleep, researchers now say that just one sleepless night can cause insulin resistance, a component of type 2 diabetes. The study included nine healthy pe...
Pig Pancreas Cells Help Type 1 Diabetics
THURSDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatic cells from pigs that have been encapsulated have been successfully transplanted into humans without triggering an immune system attack on the new cells. What's more, scientists report, the transplante...
Flying With Needles and Meds Can Raise Security Flags
THURSDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Adjusting to the necessary, but seemingly ever-changing security rules when traveling can be tough for anyone, but for someone traveling with a bagful of needles and vials of insulin or someone who's had a hi...
Artificial Pancreas for Type 1 Diabetes Moves Closer to Reality
WEDNESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- The first human trials of the latest design of an artificial pancreas for people with type 1 diabetes found the device worked without causing low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Ideally, this type of automated d...
Study Finds That Insulin-Producing Beta Cells Can Be Reborn
SUNDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Certain cells in the pancreas can regenerate themselves into insulin-producing cells after normal insulin-producing cells have been destroyed, as happens in type 1 diabetes, a new study found. Swiss researchers ...
'Jekyll and Hyde' Factor May Control Insulin Function
MONDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- A "Jekyll and Hyde" protein involved in both insulin action and insulin resistance has been identified by U.S. researchers. It's long been known that an enzyme called PI 3-kinase plays an important role in the ...
New Inhaled Insulin Shows Promise for Diabetes
TUESDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new form of inhaled insulin appears to help people with diabetes who must use insulin, with fewer potential risks than an earlier form of inhaled insulin that is no longer on the market. The new drug, Afrezz...
Soft Drinks Could Boost Pancreatic Cancer Risk
MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- People who down two or more soft drinks a week may have double the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer, compared to non-soda drinkers, new research suggests. But the overall number of people developing th...
Skipping Insulin May Not Be Uncommon
TUESDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of the people who need to take insulin to control their diabetes skip an injection now and then, a new study reports. The researchers found that people with diabetes forgo their insulin injection...
Artificial Pancreas Prototype in Development for Type 1 Diabetics
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The first version of an artificial pancreas -- a potentially revolutionary way to manage insulin delivery in people with type 1 diabetes -- may be available in as little as four years. The Juvenile Diabetes R...
Breast-Feeding Can Help Mom's Heart Decades Later
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding, even for just a couple of months, can significantly lower a woman's risk of metabolic syndrome -- a dangerous cluster of heart disease risk factors -- years later, reports a new study appearing ...
Type 1 Diabetes May Have a New Foe
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A drug commonly used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis now also shows some promise in helping patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The drug, rituximab (Rituxan), helped patien...
One Step Closer to New Diabetes Treatment
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Mitochondrial damage causes people with type 2 diabetes to lose insulin-producing cells, a finding that could lead to new treatments, U.S. researchers say. Mitochondria provide energy for cellular activity.
Long-Acting Insulin Works Best for Many Diabetics
THURSDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Adding insulin to standard diabetes drugs results in better blood sugar control for many with type 2 diabetes, British researchers report, and the dose and timing of insulin received can make a big difference....
A Gene Tweak Could Keep Heart Young
MONDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Japanese scientists have prevented age-related deterioration in the hearts of mice by suppressing the activity of a gene involved in the insulin-signaling system that helps regulate the life span of cells, and t...
Insulin-Linked Genes Tied to Body's Internal Clock
THURSDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Genes that regulate insulin in the body also play a role in the timing of the body's sleep-wake cycle, researchers say, and this finding that could potentially lead to treatments for disorders that arise when...
Diabetes Medications Don't Lower Inflammation
TUESDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- In people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, the glucose-lowering medications metformin and insulin don't appear to reduce the inflammation associated with heart disease, new research suggests. Even though ...
Discovery May Pave Way to Better Diabetes Care
FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A newly discovered gene could give researchers new insight into type 2 diabetes, potentially leading to better treatment for the increasingly common disease. The gene, which appears to be linked to diabetes, af...
Researchers Make Insulin-Producing Cells From Adult Skin Cells
MONDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Using skin cells from people with type 1 diabetes, researchers were able to produce cells that made insulin in response to changing blood sugar levels, though not as efficiently as normal insulin-producing cells...
Nick Jonas: Livin' the Dream Despite Diabetes
TUESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- In November 2005, Nick Jonas was only 13, but on the cusp of living a life that most people just dream about. He and his brothers had landed a recording contract and were touring from city to city when his fami...
Metformin May Lower Diabetics' Odds for Pancreatic Cancer
SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Metformin, one of the most widely used diabetes drugs, may offer patients the added benefit of lowering their odds for pancreatic cancer by 60 percent, a new study shows. But the study had a downside: Other commo...
Unhooking the Obesity-Diabetes Connection
SUNDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists may be closer to solving a medical mystery with huge implications for personal and public health: Why obese people are prone to developing type 2 diabetes. A series of studies appearing online July 26...
Elevated Insulin Levels Linked to Breast Cancer
THURSDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Postmenopausal women with elevated insulin levels may be at higher risk of developing breast cancer, a new study says. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City ...
FDA Tells Patients to Stick With Diabetes Drug Linked to Cancer
WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Despite recent studies suggesting that the injected diabetes drug Lantus (insulin glargine) might boost cancer risk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday urged patients who are on the medication ...
Nicotine May Help Spur 'Prediabetes'
THURSDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- The nicotine in cigarette smoke may promote insulin resistance and lead to a condition known as prediabetes, new research shows. The finding, to be outlined Thursday at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting i...
Antioxidants Blunt Exercise Benefit, Study Shows
MONDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise helps increase insulin sensitivity and ward off diabetes, but taking supplemental antioxidants such as vitamins C and E actually blunts that benefit, researchers report. Exercise helps increase the body'...
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