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Due to an unintended 2½ hour delay between having my insulin & eating food yesterday, I experienced the following: I was with my wife in a Lidl store and started to get some advanced warning of a Hypo. I first experienced problems with my vision but was not very concerned as typically that...

People with diabetes are being urged to check their blood glucose meters after a potentially dangerous fault was identified in two models. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said around 22,000 people use the One Touch Verio Pro and One Touch Verio IQ meters. Both...

Two years ago, I was put on Metformin (slow release) tablets for a short period of time; these were suspected of causing Gastric & Duodenal inflammation & very severe Gastric & Duodenal bleeding, following a Gastroscopy during which eight biopsies were taken. I lost so much blood that I was...

Novo Nordisk and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK are warning the public and healthcare professionals about the discovery of a small number of counterfeit NovoFine® needles on the UK market. The needles are not made by Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of...

A common virus may be the trigger for the development of many cases of diabetes, particularly in children, UK researchers have reported. Signs of enteroviruses were found in pancreatic tissue from 60% of children with type 1 diabetes, but in hardly any children without the disease. They also...

Spikes in blood sugar can take a toll on memory by affecting the dentate gyrus, an area of the brain within the hippocampus that helps form memories, a new study reports. Researchers said the effects can be seen even when levels of blood sugar, or glucose, are only moderately elevated, a...

Doses of vitamin B1 (thiamine) can reverse early kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes, research shows. The team from Warwick University tested the effect of vitamin B1, which is found in meat, yeast and grain, on 40 patients from Pakistan. The treatment stopped the loss of a key...

CHICAGO -- Here's a health tip in a nutshell: Eating a handful of nuts a day for a year - along with a Mediterranean diet rich in fruit, vegetables and fish - may help undo a collection of risk factors for heart disease. Spanish researchers found that adding nuts worked better than boosting the...

A ground-breaking system which could halve the number of people dying from a diabetes-related condition has been developed in the Lothians. New research shows patients suffering from a diabetic foot ulcer could win their battle if their heart health was also treated at the same time. Royal...

In the November issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, British researchers analyzed the records of more than 22,300 middle-aged and older English men and women who were part of a large European cancer study. They wanted to examine the effect of eating fish on kidney disease. The...

Scientists have developed purple tomatoes which they hope may be able to keep cancer at bay. The fruit are rich in an antioxidant pigment called anthocyanin which is thought to have anti-cancer properties. A team from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, created the tomatoes by incorporating genes...

I am Type 2 Diabetic and, since being diagnosed 3 years ago, my Blood Glucose readings have climbed inexorably, never going below 15.1 mmols/litre and more usually about 17.5mmols/litre before meals. I have been on Metformin, then Gliclazide; since yesterday, I am on Novomix 30 Insulin twice...

Aspirin should not routinely be used to prevent heart attacks in people with diabetes, Scottish research suggests. The British Medical Journal reported that in 1,300 adults with no symptoms of heart disease the drug, which can cause stomach bleeds, had no benefit. The findings contradict many...

I today found the following article in the "Health" section of Mail Online: A fat found in olive oil, nuts and avocados could help naturally curb weight gain. 8) Scientists found the 'anti-snacking' fat known as oleic acid triggers a reaction in the body that staves off hunger pangs. It...

DAILY TELEGRAPH ARTICLE: (bold highlights added by me) Scientists think they have found a "switch" in the brain that is linked to weight gain. If it is faulty then rather than recognising that the body is full, the brain sends out signals to eat more and to store more sugars as fat. The...

Liraglutide Improves Glucose Control And Increases Weight Loss In Type 2 Diabetes Patients. Liraglutide, a new treatment for type 2 diabetes, improves blood glucose control compared with a conventional oral treatment glimepiride. Patients given liraglutide injections also recorded increases in...

Bacteria in the gut can help protect against insulin-dependent type I diabetes, scientists believe. The bugs appeared to stop the rogue immune response that triggers the disease, tests on mice :roll: showed. Diabetic mice were genetically engineered so that their immune systems lacked a key...

Woman at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes can increase their chances of staying healthy through exercise, according to a new study. Researchers from Glasgow University found that insulin resistance in "high risk" women dropped by 22% after seven weeks of an exercise programme. SEE...

Drinking chamomile tea daily may help prevent the complications of type 2 diabetes, such as loss of vision and nerve and kidney damage, a study says. UK and Japanese researchers fed a chamomile extract to diabetic rats. :shock: The extract appeared to cut blood sugar levels and block...

New figures by the Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory reveal that more than one in ten (11.6 per cent) deaths among 20 to 79-year-olds in England can be attributed to diabetes :cry: . Click on the links below to read more. Diabetes UK report: http://tinyurl.com/6g2e53 Sky News...