Category: Endocrine
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps achieve better blood-sugar levels than do adolescents who use other methods, according to a new study. Those using insulin pumps also required fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, the study found. But even with the pump many children and teens still fail to achieve good blood-sugar [...]
Today, more than one in ten Hispanics age 20 years and older has diabetes. The reasons for this are unknown. Diabetes can run in families, so heredity might play a role. Some researchers believe that certain ethnic groups carry a “thrifty gene”. People with this gene would be better at storing up food as fat [...]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention has produced an animated video series to encourage Native American children to be active and eat right to reduce their risk of developing diabetes. The series of four videos are based on the four Eagle Books written by Georgia Peres of Nambe Pueblo and illustrated [...]
Animas Corporation has issued an urgent recall of battery caps used with the following insulin pump products:
WHAT: This free support group is open to all patients who have had gastric bypass surgery at Virginia Mason. We will cover information on healthy eating and exercise and special topics. Patients interested in gastric bypass that have not yet had surgery are welcome, but be reminded that this group is meant to primarily support [...]
The maker of ReliOn insulin syringes is recalling one lot of its sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed needles due to possible mislabeling that may lead to patients receiving an overdose of as much as 2.5 times the intended dose, the U.S. Food and Drug Agency reports.
A conference held this July in Seattle on the ethics of genetic testing of newborns and children is now available online at UWTV’s website. The 2008 Pediatric Bioethics Conference brought together some of the nation’s top ethicists to talk about the controversies involved in testing newborns and children for genetic conditions even when there might [...]
In patients with type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile-onset diabetes, tight control of blood sugars with insulin has been shown in clinical trials to reduce the risk of blindness, vascular disease and kidney problems that commonly develop with diabetes. These findings have led scientists to think that tight control of blood sugars would also reduce [...]
More U.S. children are taking prescription drugs for the treatment of asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other chronic diseases, according to a new study.
Hoping to encourage patients to participate in clinical trials, the American Diabetes Association, the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association and the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research are holding a conference about research being conducted in the Seattle area.
A panel of experts convened by the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes has “unanimously advised against using” the diabetes drug Avandia.
Researchers from Seattle and Sweden met in Seattle last weekend to discuss the latest diabetes research The annual Seattle-Sweden conferences are designed to highlight a number of collaborative projects between diabetes researchers working here and in Sweden.
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