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Youth: The Pleasant Potential Side Effect of Diabetes Drug
If you take a widely prescribed type 2 diabetes drug to defend your wellbeing against the disease, you may also be doing something to help your anti-ageing wellness. This is according to a study published in the journal Cell, which found…
Online Diabetes Community Launches Self-Management Guidebook
When your wellness is affected by diabetes, you need to take several daily decisions to manage your blood glucose levels the best you can. However, as you can’t have a doctor watching out for your wellbeing every day, you need to learn…
Small Ways of Sustaining Diabetes – And Your Wallet
As you grow older, the likelihood of developing Type-Two Diabetes is a discomforting prospect. Often, it is a genetic issue, by which there is very little that can be done to prevent it, but that does not mean that you have to be stuck on…
Can Mango Help You to Prevent or Manage Your Diabetes?
If mango is not on your shopping list, your wellbeing may be suffering as a result. This is according to a number of new and previous studies which suggest that including mango in your diet or in supplement form can have a significant…
Could There be a Hidden Explanation Behind Diabetes?
The University of Copenhagen has drawn a little closer towards understanding what causes diabetes and hormone deficiencies. The group of researchers from the university have been working on the discovery, which centres around the way that…
Diabetes Could Keep Child Off School
One very worried mother is facing the anxious and problematic prospect of keeping her four-year-old out of school. This is unless the youngster receives the level of care that would be able to treat her potentially-fatal diabetes.!-->-->!-->-->…
Why are Asian Americans at High Risk of Type 2 Diabetes?
There’s no denying that Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic – the condition was found to affect the wellbeing of 370 million people across the globe last year – but 50% of these cases came from Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. According…
Diabetes And Heart Disease – Are They Linked?
High levels of cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, have been linked to cardiovascular disease in some previous studies, but not all of them. This is thought to be connected to the fact that the measurements of cortisol in the blood…
AMA to Support Diabetic Treatment Improvements
In a bid to improve the treatment of heart conditions and diabetes, the (AMA) has joined hands with clinical programs and community groups. The aim is to improve methods over the short course of four years in an ambitious and new push.…
Diabetes: Why watchdog is on the case
The medicinal team for Watchdog has warned patients dealing with diabetes to check their glucose monitors following a report that a manufacturer recalled numerous faulty devices which were giving dangerously false readings. The manufacturer…
Is Government to Blame for Nation’s Poor Diabetes Control?
Diabetic wellness is at a major risk unless the government makes improving healthcare for people whose wellbeing is affected with the disease a priority. This is according to Diabetes UK, whose latest figures show that only one in five…
What Does Your Diabetic Child Need from You?
As a parent of children with diabetes, there’s a lot you need to learn and deal with in order to take care of their wellbeing. Start by educating yourself, as you will feel more comfortable and confident with handling the disease if you…
Traditional Chinese Medicine Proven to Treat Diabetes
A new study confirms what the Chinese have known for centuries – their traditional herbal remedies are an effective way to treat diabetes. The Australian study has revealed that combining Chinese medication with conventional drugs made the…
Essential Healthcare Checklist Every Diabetic Should Know
Ensuring you get the right care when you are diabetic is essential. The blood disorder is incurable and has to be managed through diet and medication. Now a new campaign has been launched in the UK to ensure diabetics across the country are…
Could a Common Pregnancy Condition Cause Diabetes?
If your wellness is affected by one of two common conditions in pregnancy, your future wellbeing may be at risk to diabetes. This is according to a Canadian study of over one million women, published in PLOS Medicine, which found that…
Type 1 Diabetes – Treatable with Gene Therapy?
A step forward in gene therapy may mark further benefits for those suffering from Type 1 Diabetes.
By applying gene therapy to dogs for up to four years, minus the effects of hypoglycaemia, the advance could prove advantageous for…
Sugar and Spice: Lower Your Blood Sugar with Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a spice typically used in cooking. Throughout the centuries, this tasty and aromatic spice has been used as a form of traditional medicine to promote good health and well-being. Research has shown the amazing benefits of the…
Low Levels of Sleep Hormone Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
The sleep hormone melatonin has been linked to a higher risk of diabetes in a US study. It found that women with low levels of melatonin are more than twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as women with high levels.
The study…
Add Walnuts to your Diet to Reduce the Risk of Diabetes
Adding walnuts to diet could reduce an older woman’s risk of developing diabetes, according to US research.
The study, by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, built on previous research which had revealed a potential…
How Can Television Help You to Manage Your Diabetes?
The TV you have now is barely recognisable from the one your grandparents, or even your parents had. Over the past 50 years, televisions have become thinner, taller and wider, whilst making leaps and bounds in colour, sound and clarity.…
How a Trip to the Dentist Could Reveal Type 2 Diabetes
Few of us look forward to a visit to the dentist but getting your teeth examined could provide an unexpected health check-up. A handful of dentists in the UK are now offering to screen at-risk patients for early signs of diabetes.
The…
Diabetes campaign proves to be successful
In an exciting new campaign for diabetes research, Dundee University has successfully raised over £3.5 million, as well as a further £1.1 million in follow-on funding. The target was originally £3 million, but this was beaten and has…
Disease Prevention Left Behind by Most Diabetes Research
Diabetes is one of the major health crises facing the world today with around 370 million people suffering from the blood disorder. The disease is the focus of an enormous amount of medical research but a new study has revealed that the…
Protein Discovery Could Lead to New Diabetic Treatments
Researchers have uncovered a possible new way of exercising glycaemic control in treating type 2 diabetes. The biological mechanism found to regulate the pancreatic islet beta cells that produce and release insulin had been previously…
Breakthrough Methods to Help You Deal With Diabetes
Having diabetes is not a competition – but curing it could be, with a new competition offering a top prize of $100,000. The Data Design Diabetes Challenge is an innovative new way of incentivising companies to think about using technology…
How a Change of Lifestyle Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
The rising epidemic of diabetes worldwide is of major concern to health professionals. Type 2 diabetes, once referred to as late onset diabetes, is a form of the blood disorder where the body fails to produce any or enough insulin to…
The Diet that Claims to Reverse the Effects of Diabetes?
A new ebook is offering diabetics a way to reverse their condition solely through diet. The blood disorder is currently incurable and is normally managed through a combination of medication and diet.
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Diabetes can be controlled easily – here’s how!
Diabetes is a lifestyle condition which is swiftly becoming an epidemic in countries such as America - millions of people deal with this condition every day, with many more with prediabetes. Those with prediabetes often don't have symptoms…
How Can Herbal Remedies Help You to Control Your Diabetes?
Diabetics often go on medications to help to manage their condition, but these drugs can often harm their wellbeing with side effects ranging from loss of appetite, indigestion, nausea and diarrhea to itchy skin, swollen hands and feet, a…
Wellness Expert Praises Hi-Tec Diabetes Control Programme
Type 2 Diabetes doesn’t only take its toll on your blood sugar, but your mental wellbeing can also be affected by the disease. A global health expert has hailed a new computerised self-care system for its significant benefits to type 2…