News tagged with diabetic conditions

New device holds promise of making blood glucose testing easier for patients with diabetes

People with diabetes could be helped by a new type of self-monitoring blood glucose sensor being developed by Arizona State University engineers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Adverse neighborhood conditions greatly aggravate mobility problems from diabetes

A study published earlier this year in the peer reviewed online journal BMC Public Health has found that residing in a neighborhood with adverse living conditions such as low air quality, loud traffic or industrial noise, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking cessation results mixed among Ohio's Appalachian women

In the Appalachian region of the country — where smoking rates are high, tobacco is often a cash crop and income and education levels are low — a smoking cessation effort led by non-medical professionals was successful in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Potential preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes

Scientists believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body's killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nutritious new low-sugar juice targeted for diabetics, individuals with high blood sugar

Scientists in China are reporting development of a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice custom-designed for millions of individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions that involve abnormally high ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Barriers to diabetes care include restaurants and high-risk lifestyles, says international review

Eating out, lack of social support and high-risk lifestyles are just some of the barriers that stop patients with type 2 diabetes from controlling their condition, according to a research review that covered 8,900 patients ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0