News Related to Diabetes

1. CDC: 52% With Diabetes Have Arthritis
   

   May 8, 2008 -- More than half of people with diabetes also suffer arthritis, CDC researchers find. It's not just a problem for older people. Diabetes patients aged 18 to 44 have a 27.6% chance of having arthritis -- 2.5 times the 11% rate seen in the general population. In the 45-64 age group, arthr

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2. Insulin, Pain Pumps Risky for Teens?
   

   May 6, 2008 -- The use of insulin pumps and pain medication pumps "may pose special risks for the adolescent," FDA scientists write in the journal Pediatrics. Between 1996 and 2005, the FDA got 1,594 reports of adverse events involving insulin pumps and 53 reports of adverse events involving patient

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3. More Broken Bones With Actos, Avandia
   

   April 28, 2008 -- The "glitazone" diabetes drugs Actos and Avandia may double or triple the risk of broken bones after a year or two of use. The finding comes from Swiss researchers who analyzed 12 years of data on U.K. diabetes patients. They compared the 1,020 patients who suffered some kind of fr

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4. Gel Could Put Insulin Pill Within Reach
   

   April 23, 2008 -- The elusive insulin pill appears to have received a shot in the arm. Whispers of an insulin pill have been around for years, but efforts to develop one have been hampered by the body's own digestive process. The stomach acids needed to break down foods also destroy the hormone insu

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5. Diabetes Study Sparks Treatment Debate
   

   April 8, 2008 -- Diabetes patients who used medicine to lower their cholesterol and blood pressure to below target levels displayed improvements in several important markers of heart and vascular disease, a study shows. But the patients were just as likely as less aggressively treated patients to ha

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6. Diabetes Drug Actos Slows Artery Plaque
   

   March 31, 2008 (Chicago) -- The diabetes pill Actos beat out an older diabetes drug, Amaryl, at slowing the buildup of plaque in the heart arteries of people with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, researchers report. Atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup in the inner lining of the arteries, i

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7. New Gene Hot Spots for Type 2 Diabetes
   

   March 31, 2008 -- Researchers are six steps closer to finding a genetic fingerprint to identify people particularly susceptible to type 2 diabetes. To climb the six steps, an international consortium of researchers crunched data from three studies of some 2.2 million single DNA changes across the en

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8. Diabetes Increases Heart Attack Risk
   

   March 31, 2008 -- Adults being treated for diabetes are just as likely to have a heart attack or stroke or die from cardiovascular causes as people who have had a prior heart attack, new research shows. They are also twice as likely as non-diabetics to die following a heart attack, the study reveale

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9. FDA Studying Diabetes Gel Regranex
   

   March 28, 2008 -- The FDA is reviewing a possible increased risk of cancer death in diabetes patients who repeatedly use the prescription gel Regranex to treat ulcers on their feet and legs. The FDA's investigation is still under way, so the FDA hasn't yet concluded whether Regranex has any link to

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10. Vitamin D May Cut Child Diabetes Risk
    

    March 12, 2008 -- Infants who get vitamin D supplements have a lower risk of getting type 1 diabetes, a small study suggests. The study was not a clinical trial. Researchers Christos S. Zipitis, MBChB, of NHS Foundation Trust, and Anthony K. Akobeng, MBChB, combined data from five studies that looke

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