The Diabetes Cure

The first time I presented medical research findings, I was not yet a physician. The year was about 1975. I was in my early forties and a mid-career engineer. The forum was a scientific symposium on diabetes. At the time, I felt that I had discovered the holy grail of diabetes care and was eager to share what I had learned.

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Parents Of Son Who Died From Type 1 Complications Establish a Professorship in Diabetes Research

I am always impressed when people find the strength to turn their own painful experience into a way to help others. In case you are losing faith that people are out there raising money, trying to find the Cure, and taking care of each other...read on.

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Co-Workers, Neighbors, and Families Form Teams to Raise Money to Fight Diabetes

To keep pace with the growing number of Americans with diabetes, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) invites communities nationwide to their brand new fundraising walk, Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes.

3 comments - Sep 11, 2008 -

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Can Surgery Cure Type 2? Interesting Newsweek Article Examines Raging Pros and Cons

In March, Diabetes Health reported on Dr. Francesco Rubino, a surgeon who claims that the origin of diabetes is in the digestive system, not the gut, and that gastric bypass surgery cures type 2 diabetes.

0 comments - Aug 28, 2008 -

Beta Cells Morph into Stem-Like Cells: Can They Also Turn into Insulin Producers?

A study of beta cells at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal could hold significant promise for people with type 1 diabetes.

0 comments - Aug 5, 2008 -

Study by 24 Doctors and Researchers Lobs Rebuttal At the ADA and EASD for Their Stance on Low-Carb

Twenty-four diabetes doctors and researchers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden and Portugal have published a study criticizing the American Diabetes Association (ADA) assertion that diabetics should consume no fewer than 130 mg of carbohydrates daily and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) statement that low-carb diets are “not justified.”

28 comments - Jun 26, 2008 -

This Week's Diabetes Research Highlights

Tekturna Reduces Kidney Disease Indicator

The blood pressure medicine Tekturna (aliskiren) may have a beneficial side effect for people with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure who are at risk of kidney disease. According to a recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine, the drug reduces proteinuria, a key indicator of kidney disease, by 20 percent in patients with type 2 diabetes.

2 comments - Jun 26, 2008 -

Looking to Participate in a Clinical Trial? Here Are Some Good Sites to Explore

Clinical trials have been a staple of diabetes research ever since 1922, when doctors in a Toronto hospital injected a young boy dying from the disease with pancreatic extracts. (The extracts contained the recently discovered hormone, insulin. The boy survived and lived another 13 years.)

3 comments - Jun 19, 2008 -

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The Cure: The Slow Road to Hope

Talk of a cure has been around forever. Sometimes it seems as if the cure is a constantly receding dream, always ten years away or just around the next corner.

12 comments - Mar 9, 2008 - Not Yet Rated

Research, Rivalry, and Investing in the Cure

Since the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded almost all diabetes research worldwide. From its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH oversees a $28 billion annual medical research budget. More than $1 billion of those taxpayer dollars go specifically toward diabetes research. Still, a cure remains frustratingly elusive.

0 comments - Sep 13, 2007 -

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