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In celebration of National Diabetes Awareness Month, the Institute for Women’s Health Research focused its November 2010 e-newsletter on this topic. It is available free at IWHRenewsNov10-1.
According to a study that was coordinated by investigators at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, two to three times more pregnant women may soon be diagnosed and treated for gestational diabetes, based on new measurements for determining risky blood sugar levels for the mother and her unborn baby. “As result of this study, more [...]
Earlier this week, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they had approved a new drug for type 2 diabetes (see the FDA’s press release here). Type 2 is the most common kind of diabetes and can develop at any age despite the old misnomer that it was an “adult-onset” disease. Essentially, your body does [...]
Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disease affecting approximately 7% of the US population. Diabetes is categorized into two classes: Type 1, or insulin dependent diabetes, and Type 2, or adult onset diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is a condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone necessary for the metabolism of glucose. [...]
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