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...
Doctors prescribe diabetes treatment medications 15 times more than obesity drugs: Study supriya kashyap kashyap1 Sept 2016 3:43 PM ISTObesity is a well-established major risk factor for developing diabetes, with almost 90% of people living with type 2 diabetes having obesity or...
Artificial beta cells engineered from human kidney cells may prove to be better diabetes treatment supriya kashyap kashyap16 Dec 2016 9:33 AM ISTResearchers have used the simplest approach yet to produce artificial beta cells from human kidney cells. Like their natural model, the artificial...
Time to dial back on diabetes treatment in older patients? Study finds 11 percent are overtreated supriya kashyap kashyap1 Oct 2017 10:00 AM ISTAnyone with diabetes who takes blood sugar medication knows their doctor prescribed it to help them. After all, the long-term effects of elevated...
ACP's New HbA1c Targets for Glycemic Control in T2DM Medha Baranwal Baranwal1 May 2018 7:02 PM ISTThe American College of Physicians (ACP) has released a guidance statement for providing guidance to clinicians in selecting targets for pharmacologic...
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...
Pill that offers same benefits as bariatric surgery in diabetes Medha Baranwal Baranwal12 Jun 2018 8:20 PM ISTThe scientists have developed an orally administered gut-coating formulation that provides a transient coating of the intestine to prevent nutrient...
BCG vaccine- a safe future treatment for even advanced Type 1 diabetes Medha Baranwal Baranwal25 Jun 2018 8:20 PM ISTA new study published in the journal npj Vaccines describes the long-term outcomes of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) administration to patients with...
Human insulin as effective as costlier insulin analogs in diabetes Medha Baranwal Baranwal1 July 2018 8:20 PM ISTTreatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients with the newer generation insulin analog as compared with less costly human neutral protamine Hagedorn...
Special MRI to track oxygen for proper functioning of bioartificial pancreas Hina Zahid27 Feb 2019 7:15 PM ISTSpecial MRI shall be able to track oxygen for the proper functioning of transplanted pancreatic islet cells,i.e bioartificial pancreas. Daily insulin...
Sustained weight loss may help in sustained diabetes remission: Lancet Medha Baranwal Baranwal10 March 2019 8:28 PM ISTWeight loss may help in Diabetes remission and sustained remission was linked to the extent of sustained weight loss.Restricting to a primary care-led...
