Type 2 Diabetes Treatments May Benefit People with Type 1 Diabetes
Recent breakthroughs in type 2 diabetes treatments promise new treatment options for type 1 diabetics. Navigating this world of new, and apparently improved drugs, however, is anything but simple or straightforward. Less than 20 years ago, the only thing type 1 and...
Stroke Study Shows Oranges Vitamin C May Reduce Risk of Strokes
This past Friday, a small team of French researchers declared to have found a link, within their study results, for reducing the risk of strokes and the consumption of vitamin C foods and supplements, including the citrus bite of an orange. The study still is...RESEARCH from Science Daily: Turning to parasites as potential disease fighters
September 9, 2013 Source: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Summary: Researchers have described exciting progress in harnessing the human immune system’s reaction to the presence of parasitic worms, as a way to lessen susceptibility to type 1 diabetes and...
More than just type 1 or type 2: Study points to different forms of diabetes
Date: September 12, 2013 Source: Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health The DiMelli study examines the different phenotypes of diabetes mellitus in relation to their immunological, metabolic and genetic profiles. Although the...
New avenue to treat diabetes-related vision problems
Eye on dopamine Dopamine-restoring drugs already used to treat Parkinson’s disease may also be beneficial for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness in adults, researchers have discovered. The results were published in the Jan. 15...
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