http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Universitat de Girona have developed a new method for continuous glucose monitoring in patients with type 1 diabetes. It is based on a new calibration algorithm which is adapted to existing treatment devices and increases the accuracy in estimating blood glucose and helps regulate a controlled and automatic insulin release. The system has been patented by the two Spanish universities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-method-ability-glucose-diabetic-patients.html Diabetes Wed, 08 May 2013 08:22:22 EST news287220126 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new mouse model that answers the question of what actually happens in the body when type 2 diabetes develops and how the body responds to drug treatment. Long-term studies of the middle-aged mouse model will be better than previous studies at confirming how drugs for type 2 diabetes function in humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mouse-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 03 May 2013 07:50:01 EST news286784059 Type 2 diabetes has strong hereditary tendencies and the genes we are born with cannot be changed. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden shows that we can modify the function of the genes through the epigenetic changes that take place in the course of life. Epigenetic changes are usually described as a link between heredity and environment and come about as a result of factors such as ageing, chemicals, medication, diet, exercise and drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-clues-heredity-diabetes.html Genetics Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:58:16 EST news282905889 New Zealand research revealing a new mechanism for how glucose stimulates insulin secretion may provide a new explanation for how a gene that makes people more susceptible to diabetes – called TCF7L2 – actually contributes to the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mechanism-insulin-secretion-genetic-susceptibility.html Diabetes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:50:26 EST news279179354 Sugars are needed to provide us with energy and in moderate amounts contribute to our well-being. Sustained high levels of sugars, as is found in diabetics, damages our cells and now is shown that can also increase our chance to get cancer: The dose makes the poison as Paracelsus said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-scientists-link-excess-sugar-cancer.html Medical research Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:09:08 EST news278935252 Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to graft beta cells into the eyes of mice in order to study them in a living organism over a prolonged period of time. As a result, the group and a team of colleagues from the University of Miami have gained detailed knowledge of how the autonomic nervous system regulates beta-cell insulin secretion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-nerves-insulin-secretion.html Medical research Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:00:01 EST news274361411 Selective targeting of the neurotransmitter that differentially affects brain cells that control the two distinct functions of the pancreas may allow for new medication therapies for conditions like diabetes, dyspepsia and gastro-esophageal reflux, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-neurotransmitter-gastrointestinal-conditions.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:51:49 EST news273847898 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists can now turn on or off the enzymes responsible for processing starchy foods into sugars in the human digestive system, a finding they believe will allow them to better control those processes in people with type 2 diabetes and obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-sugars-diabetes-obesity.html Medical research Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:26:31 EST news267863091 Scientists from the United States and Sweden have discovered a new control point that could be important as a drug target for the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases. A-kinase anchoring proteins or AKAPs are known to influence the spatial distribution of kinases within the cell, crucial enzymes that control important molecular events related to the regulation of glucose levels in the blood. In a new study published in The EMBO Journal, the team of researchers led by Simon Hinke and John Scott reveal for the first time that AKAPs influence the levels of glucose in the body by coordinating the spatial positioning of phosphatases, naturally occurring enzymes that counteract the effects of kinase enzymes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-anchoring-proteins-glucose-metabolism-insulin.html Medical research Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:12:06 EST news265975917 Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) discovered that beta cells in the pancreas use taste receptors to sense fructose, a type of sugar. According to the study, the beta cells respond to fructose by secreting insulin, a hormone that regulates the body's response to dietary sugar. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fructose-pancreas.html Medical research Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:05 EST news247755259 A study published in Nature Genetics today has found new evidence for a link between the body clock hormone melatonin and type 2 diabetes. The study found that people who carry rare genetic mutations in the receptor for melatonin have a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-genetic-links-body-clock-receptor.html Diabetes Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:00:15 EST news247034442