Powerful antibody-based strategy suggests a new therapeutic approach to diabetes and obesity
The work of a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Nicholas Tonks FRS, suggests a way to overcome one of the major technical obstacles preventing a leading therapeutic target for diabetes ...
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Sep 29, 2011 |
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Discovery of insulin switches in pancreas could lead to new diabetes drugs
Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin.
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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Study suggests possible link between two Type 2 diabetes drugs and pancreatic cancer
Two newer drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes could be linked to a significantly increased risk of developing pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, and one could also be linked to an increased risk of thyroid cancer, according ...
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Sep 16, 2011 |
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Advances in type 2 diabetes drugs
Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Fla., report they have created prototype drugs having powerful anti-diabetic effects, yet apparently ...
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Sep 05, 2011 |
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Scientists use diabetes drug in double hit to starve cancer cells
(Medical Xpress) -- UK scientists have discovered how blocking a key controller of energy production in cancer cells and treating them with a diabetes drug, metformin, effectively starves cancer cells. The research1 is published ...
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Aug 29, 2011 |
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Six new genetic variants linked to type 2 diabetes discovered in South Asians
An international team of researchers led by Imperial College London has identified six new genetic variants associated with type-2 diabetes in South Asians. The findings, published in Nature Genetics, give scientists new le ...
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Aug 28, 2011 |
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Metformin and exercise combination less effective for glucose control
University of Alberta researchers looking at the effects of metformin and exercise in Type 2 diabetes patients found that a combination of these modalities didn't lower glucose control as much as hoped. Surprisingly, study ...
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Aug 19, 2011 |
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No proof fibrate drugs reduce heart risk in diabetes patients on statins
Type 2 diabetes patients, who face higher risk of cardiovascular disease, often take a combination of medications designed to lower their LDL or "bad" cholesterol and triglyceride levels while raising their HDL or "good" ...
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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Trastuzumab raises risk of heart problems in the elderly with history of heart disease or diabetes
(Medical Xpress) -- The first study to investigate the effect of the breast cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) on heart and vascular function in elderly patients has found that it increases the risk of heart problems, particularly ...
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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New link found between obesity and insulin resistance
Obesity is the main culprit in the worldwide avalanche of type 2 diabetes. But how excess weight drives insulin resistance, the condition that may lead to the disease, is only partly understood. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes ...
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Aug 02, 2011 |
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FDA questions safety of experimental diabetes drug
(AP) -- Federal health regulators have concerns about bladder and breast cancer seen in patients taking an experimental diabetes pill from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca.
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Jul 15, 2011 |
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A 'nutty' solution to type 2 diabetes management
Eating nuts every day could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent its complications, according to new research from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.
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Jul 12, 2011 |
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Gene therapy stimulates protein that blocks immune attack and prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice
Increasing a specific protein in areas of the pancreas that produce insulin blocks the immune attack that causes type 1 diabetes, researchers reported in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, published early ...
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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New research redraws pancreas anatomy
(Medical Xpress) -- Research from Karolinska Institutet shows that insulin secretion in the pancreas is not under direct neural control, as has previously been thought. The few nerves that are present are connected to blood ...
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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Researchers invent new drug delivery device to treat diabetes-related vision loss
A team of engineers and scientists at the University of British Columbia has developed a device that can be implanted behind the eye for controlled and on-demand release of drugs to treat retinal damage caused ...
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Jun 30, 2011 |
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