Ruboxistaurin (RBX) May Reduce Risk of Vision Loss in Diabetics

April 13th, 2005 OPTOMETRY researchers at Aston University’s new £10 million Academy of Life Sciences are currently undertaking ground-breaking research into the vision problems caused by diabetics – one of the leading causes of blindness and vision loss in the UK. So far, the study has been very successful with a large number of diabetic volunteers stepping forward to take part in the study, but the researchers still require some more Type 1 diabetics (insulin dependent patients usually diagnosed under the age of 30) in order to obtain reliable results.

September 27th, 2005 Pfizer Inc. said U.S. regulators (FDA) have approved its cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor. Lipitor is used to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack in diabetic patients.

June 19th, 2007 Diabulimia is a new term used to describe an eating disorder that’s beginning to victimize type I diabetics. As with any other eating disorder teens are the most likely to develop it.

April 20th, 2005 Report from the 4th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, organised by the World Health Organization and others.

June 19th, 2007 Most of us, myself excluded, aspires to be thin especially so much so that they often adopt unhealthy practices which lead to bulimia or diabulimia. Here are some safe tips from FDA which doesn't involve consulting a doctor and can be done by you without external help.

July 17th, 2005 "Keeping glucose levels from jumping too high or dipping too low may help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, which has been connected to erratic glucose levels in those with diabetes," said Robert Gabbay, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre, and co-director, Penn State Diabetes Centre.

April 13th, 2005 According to a study by Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in cooperation with Wayne State University - People of Arab descent are at significantly greater risk of diabetes than the general population and use tobacco at high rates, especially among younger people, in part because of the smoking of "argila," a traditional communal pipe. Nationally, 18.3 percent of Arabs are diabetics, compared to about 13 percent of African-Americans, 12 percent of Latinos and 4 percent of Caucasians.

April 14th, 2006 The FDA and the CDC have issued an alert to health care professionals and patients about Renu lens solution that can cause a rare eye infection caused by a fungus, Fusarium Keratities. The infection is rare, but serious - and can cause permanent loss of vision.

August 11th, 2005 International Stroke Survey An international online stroke survey has been launched to gauge the awareness of signs and symptoms of stroke, as well as differences in treatment options available in Europe, Canada and the United States. The results will be used to help improve care for stroke survivors around the world and to raise awareness of this serious, yet treatable condition.

July 17th, 2005 The RSPCA is urging pet owners to be aware of diseases that pets can have that are normally not associated with animals like diabetes. Amid National Diabetes Week, the RSPCA says even though it is a rare disease in animals, it can still happen.

March 21st, 2005 Researchers from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Manhasset, N.Y. have identified a gene which expresses as a protein called macrophage migration inhibitory factor, or MIF.

April 22nd, 2005 The same gene that accounts for part of a genetic risk for developing alcoholism in a U.S. population is found in a Russian population, according to a published study by a Yale School of Medicine researcher.

April 5th, 2005 According to University of Washington about 10 million US citizens have diabetes without being aware of it. Diabetes is the most insidious disease.

April 2nd, 2005 According to the team, as waist circumference increased, so did the risk of developing diabetes, with the risk in men with the highest waist circumference (up to 158 centimeters) increasing by 12-fold, they report. "Our findings support the contention that the measurement of waist circumference should be used in clinical practice instead of waist-to-hip ratio," the investigators write.

May 18th, 2005 Valsartan, commercially known as Diovan, a drug that controls blood pressure and reduces heart risk, also appears to protect against diabetes, especially in high-risk people, according to new research presented at the American Society of Hypertension's Twentieth Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2005) by a University of Michigan physician who helped lead the study. The randomized trial involved 15,313 patients at 942 sites in 31 countries, of whom 9,995 did not have diabetes at the start of the study.