Archive for March, 2011

Latest Advances In Diabetes Research To Be Presented In San Diego, California At World’s Largest Diabetes Conference, June 24-28, 2011

What American Diabetes Association's 71st Scientific Sessions When Friday - Tuesday, June 24-28, 2011 Where San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA Why More than 13,000 top scientists, physicians and other health care professionals from around the world will share cutting-edge research, treatment recommendations and advances toward a cure for...
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American Diabetes Association Announces New Research Grant Program In Clinical Care Delivery

A major new research initiative was announced today by the American Diabetes Association. The awards are part of a $1.5 million initiative being funded by sanofi-aventis U.S., a leading company in the management of diabetes. The American Diabetes Association - sanofi-aventis...
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54 Beneficial Compounds Discovered In Pure Maple Syrup

University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram has discovered 34 new beneficial compounds in pure maple syrup and confirmed that 20 compounds discovered last year in preliminary research play a key role in human health. At the 241st American Chemical Society's National Meeting in Anaheim,...
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Next Set Of NICE Quality Standards Launched On Depression, Diabetes And Glaucoma

NICE has today (31 March) launched new quality standards on depression in adults, diabetes in adults and glaucoma 1, adding to the library of standards already published2. NICE quality standards are markers of excellence in patient...
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PREVAIL Initiative Established To Improve Care And Reduce Incidence Of Type 2 Diabetes

Tethys Bioscience, Inc. and Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) have established the PREVAIL patient registry, a multi-center, national initiative that will analyze primary care ambulatory practices for risk factor management of patients at high risk of conversion to type 2 diabetes in the...
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Why Do Some Diabetes 1 Patients Never Have Complications, Researchers Explain

Some people with diabetes type 1 spend fifty or more years with the condition and have no complications at all, while others develop proliferative diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy (kidney damage), neuropathy (nerve damage) or cardiovascular...
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Satellite Celebrates 10th Year of Grant Program

SAN JOSE, Calif.— Satellite Healthcare is celebrating the 10th year of the Norman S. Coplon Extramural Grant Program, which targets researchers conducting innovative and important kidney disease research in the United States. ...
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Kidney Patients Want to Know Options

WASHINGTON—Many patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) would like to receive more comprehensive information about the various treatment alternatives available, according to an article appearing in the March issue of the Clinical Journal of the ...
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Bariatric Surgery Reduces Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk In Diabetes Patients

In the longest study of its kind, bariatric surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with diabetes. These results and other groundbreaking research were presented at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical...
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AHRQ News And Numbers- Diabetes Testing Among Poor, Minority And Inner-city Adults Plummets

The proportion of poor adults age 40 and over with diabetes who had their blood sugar, eyes and feet examined at least once a year dropped from 39 percent to 23 percent between 2002 and 2007, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and...
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