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Smartphone cameras can now detect diabetes with 80 percent accuracy
A team from UC San Francisco has demonstrated the potential in using a smartphone camera to diagnose type 2 diabetes. The technique needs no additional hardware other than a smartphone camera, and is over 80 percent accurate in detecting diabetes.
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Trump asks whether he should take insulin despite not being diabetic
President Donald Trump pondered on Tuesday whether he should be taking insulin, a hormone typically prescribed to diabetics, during an announcement for a plan which would aim to drastically reduce the price of insulin for people on Medicare. "I don't use insulin," Trump said. "Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable."
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Type 2 Diabetes Is About More Than Just Insulin
Insulin imbalance may not be the only cause of the onset of diabetes. Researchers at the University of Geneva have highlighted another mechanism: the liver appears to have the ability to produce a significant amount of glucose outside of any hormonal signal.
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Low Carb Diet in 2019 American Diabetes Association Standards of Care
After years of ignoring it,the ADS has finally endorsed HFLC as a viable option for diabetics.
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Cholesterol medication could invite diabetes, study suggests
A study of thousands of patients’ health records found that those who were prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins had at least double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Low-carb diet may reduce diabetes risk independent of weight loss
A low-carb diet may have benefits for people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes even if they don’t lose any weight, a new study suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University wanted to know what happens to obese people with metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes, when they eat a diet low in carbohydrates but don’t shed any pounds. They found that more than half of study participants no longer met the criteria for metabolic syndrome immediately following a four-week low-carb diet.
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Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
Diabetics in Colorado who use insulin to control their blood sugar levels won’t pay more than $100 per month for the drug starting in January thanks to a bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday. “Today, we will declare that the days of insulin price gouging are over in Colorado,” Polis said in his office as he signed the bill, according to CBS Denver.
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Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
Diabetics in Colorado who use insulin to control their blood sugar levels won’t pay more than $100 per month for the drug starting in January thanks to a bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday. “Today, we will declare that the days of insulin price gouging are over in Colorado,” Polis said in his…
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People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps
One day last June, Doug Boss pulled into a police-station parking lot to meet a stranger from Craigslist. His purpose: to buy used insulin pumps. Boss has type 1 diabetes, and he relies on a small pump attached to his body to deliver continuous doses of insulin that keep him alive. To be clear, he didn’t need to buy used medical equipment on Craigslist. Boss, who is 55 and works in IT in Texas, has health insurance. He even has a new, in-warranty pump sitting at home.
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Study finds diabetes drug may prevent, slow kidney disease
A new study shows that a drug used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes also can prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive. Doctors say it's hard to overstate the importance of this study, and what it means for curbing this problem, which is growing because of the obesity epidemic.
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Oral Health Effects Of Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease characterized by hyperglycaemia. People with this condition are 2-5 times more likely to develop gum diseases than someone without diabetes.
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Diabetes | Type 1 Diabetes | Type 2 Diabetes | Lifestyle changes | Medeaz
Diabetes is a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels. This condition can be prevented by regular physical activity, proper diet and weight management.
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Drinking two or more diet beverages a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks
More bad news for diet soda lovers: Drinking two or more of any kind of artificially sweetened drinks a day is linked to an increased risk of clot-based strokes, heart attacks and early death in women over 50, according to a new study by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. The risks were highest for women with no history of heart disease or diabetes and women who were obese or African-American.
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Human cells can change job to fight diabetes
Traditional cell biology textbooks say that most cells can only differentiate to the same cell type, with the same function. It seems that some of these textbooks need to be rewritten, thanks to the new results by researchers at the University of Bergen and their international partners at Université de Genève (UNIGE), Harvard Medical School, Universiteit Leiden and the Oregon Stem Cell Center (OHSU).
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Insulin produced by cone snails could help design better diabetes treatments.
Insulin is a hormone critical for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels in humans. When the insulin system becomes faulty, blood sugar levels become too high, which can lead to diabetes. At the moment, the only effective treatment for one of the major types of diabetes are daily insulin injections. However, designing fast-acting insulin drugs has remained a challenge. Insulin molecules form clusters (so-called hexamers) that first have to dissolve in the body to activate the insulin receptor, which plays a key role in regulating the blood sugar levels throughout the body. This can take time and can therefore delay the blood-sugar control.
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New pill can deliver insulin
Capsule that releases insulin in the stomach could replace injections for patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Stem cell breakthrough could help cure type 1 diabetes
Scientists have edged one step closer to a major treatment for (and possibly cure for) type 1 diabetes. A UCSF team has claimed it's the first to turn human stem cells into the mature, insulin-producing cells that type 1 patients don't have. The key was to acknowledge a reality in the development of islets, or clusters of healthy beta cells (which generate insulin) in the pancreas. They separated partly differentiated pancreatic stem cells into islets, jumpstarting their development and leading to responses to blood sugar that more closely represented mature cells. Even alpha and delta cells grew more effectively, UCSF said.
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Unnecessary Testing Proves Costly for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Patients with Type 2 diabetes might be testing their blood sugar too often, potentially costing the healthcare system millions, according to a new study. Of the more than 370,000 patients, 23.4 percent filled three or more claims for test strips over the year, and more than half of those individuals were deemed to be using the supplies inappropriately, researchers found. A median of two strips were used a day, making the average claims cost for test strips $325.54 per person per year.
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Diabetes can be diagnosed by simply shining a light on your skin
Shining a light onto the skin could become a new test to see if people are in the earliest stages of diabetes and heart disease. The approach may offer a way of screening people for these health conditions that’s quicker and easier than current methods that include blood tests, and assessing risk factors such as people’s weight and family history.
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Parents Deliver Ashes of Diabetic Children to Price-Gouging Insulin Manufacturer
When people die from lack of access to medicine, health care profiteers should expect resistance. By Mike Ludwig.
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