Blocking a hormone may help treat type 1 diabetes: Study supriya kashyap kashyap20 April 2016 3:07 PM ISTGeneva : Blocking the hormone that raises sugar levels in the blood could increase insulin levels while keeping blood sugar levels down, which may...
Age-Dependent Changes in Pancreatic Function Related to Diabetes Identified supriya kashyap kashyap29 April 2016 9:31 AM ISTAge-related changes in the human pancreas govern how our bodies respond to rising and falling blood sugar levels throughout our lifetimes, and could...
Do Germs Cause Type 1 Diabetes? supriya kashyap kashyap17 May 2016 10:16 PM ISTGerms could play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes by triggering the body’s immune system to destroy the cells that produce insulin, new...
Artificial pancreas likely to be available by 2018 supriya kashyap kashyap1 July 2016 2:07 PM ISTThe artificial pancreas a device which monitors blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes and then automatically adjusts levels of insulin...
New insulin producing beta-cell may improve diabetes treatment supriya kashyap kashyap13 July 2016 2:18 PM ISTNew York : Researchers have identified four separate sub types of human insulin producing beta cells that may be important in the understanding and...
Failure of specialised beta cells may cause diabetes: Study supriya kashyap kashyap23 July 2016 11:39 AM ISTLondon : The failure of a handful of beta cell "hubs" in the pancreas are the likely reason for developing diabetes, rather than the behaviour of all...
The role of vitamin A in diabetes Anjali Nimesh Nimesh16 Jun 2017 9:49 AM ISTThere has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A -- until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing...
Using PET Scan to detect insulin-making cells could gauge diabetes progression, treatment Anjali Nimesh Nimesh12 Aug 2017 10:15 AM ISTResearchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new measurement for the volume and activity of beta cells, the source of the...
Vegan diet improves beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity in overweight adults Anjali Nimesh Nimesh13 Feb 2018 7:31 PM ISTAccording to findings of researchers from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,A vegan diet improves diabetes markers in overweight...
Vitamin D has no positive impact on Diabetes outcomes : Study Medha Baranwal Baranwal15 May 2018 7:30 PM ISTVitamin D3 at 4000 IU/d has no impact on insulin secretion rate (ISR) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes on...
Sulphonylureas safe, effective alternative to insulin in Neonatal diabetes Medha Baranwal Baranwal6 Jun 2018 8:20 PM ISTNeonatal diabetes can now be treated successfully over a long-term with sulphonylurea tablets as a replacement for insulin injections, according to a...
New paradigm for treatment of type 1 diabetes Medha Baranwal Baranwal11 Jun 2018 8:20 PM ISTIn a breakthrough study of type 1 diabetes published in the journal Diabetes Care, the scientists have found that the rapid decline in insulin...
