Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged from a 20 percent to a 200 percent increase in risk, said the scientists with [...]
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Clinical study in the search for diabetes treatment shows that liraglutide provides statistically significantly better blood glucose control than exenatide.
Novo Nordisk today announced headline clinical results from a phase 3 clinical study (LEAD(TM) 6) comparing the effects of liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 analogue, with exenatide, a twice-daily GLP-1 analogue. The 26-week study, which is [...]
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Ethicon added cancer related warning to Regranex adding an Important Safety Information do its diabetes foot ulcer treatment gel.
%26quot;REGRANEX Gel should not be used in patients with cancers at the site of application. In a safety study, patients treated with 3 or more tubes of REGRANEX Gel had an increased risk of death from [...]
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Microspheres carrying targeted nucleic acid molecules fabricated in the laboratory have been shown to prevent and even reverse new-onset cases of type 1 diabetes in animal models. The results of these studies were reported by diabetes researchers at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and Baxter Healthcare [...]
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KineMed and Daiichi Sankyo announced that researchers have discovered a key difference in bile acid metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes which may suggest a newly identified underlying disorder.
It has long been known that bile acids help the body absorb fat and cholesterol. In the last decade, we learned that bile acids are important [...]
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