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http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=252230 More "nice work if you can get it" science... scoffing sarnies for research... :crazy: "Just one day of eating a fat-laden breakfast sandwich - processed cheese and meat on a bun - and "your blood vessels become unhappy," says Heart and...

Interesting and entirely different postings... just goes to show that we iz all individuals and a one-size-fits-all approach is not the solution. Studies must use a good size sample to be valid which obviously increases the cost and time. But within the usual bell-curve spread there will cases...

http://www.novonordisk.com/press/sea/sea.asp?sNewsTypeGUID=&lMonth=&lYear=&sLanguageCode=&sSearchText=&fb=1218&cat=pr&sShowNewsItemGUID=3eeb78dc-6fc4-4fb6-aa0a-01c71dda7096&sShowLanguageCode=en-GB News from Novo - some serious actual science for a change maybe? NN is really pushing the boat out...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030062007.htm Further confirmation of the obvious? A single junk food meal -- composed mainly of saturated fat -- is detrimental to the health of the arteries, while no damage occurs after consuming a Mediterranean meal rich in good fats such as...

http://seekingalpha.com/article/940521-medtronic-s-revolutionary-device-to-control-high-blood-pressure Symplicity works through a minimally invasive procedure. The doctor inserts a steerable catheter into the renal artery, and Symplicity's radio frequency energy electrode tip performs a series...

http://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/br.2012.18 Another abstract from a paper "Metformin in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta‑analysis" Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) related to insulin resistance (IR) is a growing global health concern. Recent...

This week I was alerted to an interesting development with potentially great import for diabetics and uses a so-called "slow release" starch (SRS) to help treat hypoglycaemia. This is being developed by a company in Scotland based on university research programs. The company is called...

:lol: Some on the forum would agree with that! A nurse, not a DN, told me she had seen non-DM patients prescribed met to help lose weight. I think the appetite supression may not affect everyone and you cannot always disentangle the med-related effects from the psychological. After all...

Welcome to the ranks! Metformin was prescribed to me as a standard tablet with meals a few times a day, it is no big deal but it can upset your stomach for a bit. The slow release is a bit better but the other one is cheaper I suspect... It is only subjective perhaps but I reckon taking it...

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-snake-venom-heart-disease-drugs.html Something a bit way off but nonetheless interesting this morning... 8) "research, published in the prestigious Nature journal Scientific Reports, was led by Professor K. Ravi Acharya in collaboration with the Universities of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-planes Seems Bell got the less well-known X14 precursor in the series but did not take part in the X15. This was designed and built by that amazing company North American... whose first big success was of course the P51 (well, once they had the brilliant...

Good posts... and here IS the place to get it off your chest... will read some more later but for now... "BellX15"? What kind of name is that? Combines the first supersonic platform the Bell X1 with the first hypersonic machine, the North American X-15! Cute! I love planes of course... 8)...

http://pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=71701&sid=2 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Roche's ACCU-CHEK Inform II system, a next-generation blood glucose monitor for hospital point-of-care testing, it offers the first truly wireless hospital blood glucose device and...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121016092154.htm As if you needed another reason to think very hard about your diet it may turn out that what you eat will also dictate what your retirement's quality of mental health will be. "People 70 and older who eat food high in carbohydrates...

Ooh err... It has crossed my mind many times too. I suppose that in extremis we might conclude that some kind of conspiracy is afoot. If I had the nerve I might experiment and just eat what I like and do little exercise up to the point where I have my next HbA1c.... two met a day with meals and...

Decision Resources finds that the type 2 diabetes drug market will nearly double over the next decade, increasing from $26 billion in 2011 to nearly $50 billion in 2021 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. The main factors fueling this growth are an...

A coming soon, watch this space item.... Sensors for Medicine and Science, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of the first fully implantable, long-term continuous glucose monitoring announced its new company name, Senseonics...

http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=251427 There are 92 million with type 2 diabetes in China. In the urban population, levels of diabetes increased by more than 50% over a 5-year period, from 6% in 2002 to nearly 10% in 2007. Hospital admission rates for acute complications of...

Argh that is too long.... I have only so much willpower.... there are non-DM habits I would like to break so maybe I shall experiment to see if the craving for those things goes off. Shall for example leave off posting on the forum for three weeks... hah hah 8) I doubt some people could last...

http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=251484 Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and the Medical University of Vienna together with an international research team have jointly resolved a new molecular circuit controlling cellular...