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Novel Study Reports Marijuana Improves Diabetic Control
May 22, 2013 (Beth Israel Deaconnes Medical Center) — Marijuana use among diabetic patients who admitted using marijuana is associated with improved diabetic control, say investigators. They found that current marijuana users had significantly lower fasting insulin and insulin resistance even after excluding patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Their findings are reported in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine.
Marijuana (Cannabis sativa) has been u
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Email this Immune Protein Could Stop Diabetes in Its Tracks
May 23, 2013 (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) — Melbourne researchers have identified an immune protein that has the potential to stop or reverse the development of type 1 diabetes in its early stages, before insulin-producing cells have been destroyed.
The discovery has wider repercussions, as the protein is responsible for protecting the body against excessive immune responses, and could be used to treat, or even prevent, other immune d
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Email this Nanotechnology Could Help Fight Diabetes
May 23, 2013 (MIT) — Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin.
The nanoparticles were designed to sense glucose levels in the body and respond by secreting the appropriate amount of insulin, thereby replacing the function of pancreatic islet cells, which are destroyed in patients with Type 1 diabetes. Ultimately, thi
Email this Insight Into the Dazzling Impact of Insulin in Cells
May 21, 2013 (Garvan Institute) — Australian scientists have charted the path of insulin action in cells in precise detail like never before. This provides a comprehensive blueprint for understanding what goes wrong in diabetes.
The breakthrough study, conducted by Sean Humphrey and Professor David James from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, is now published in the early online edition of the pre
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Email this Vitamin D: More May Not Be Better
May 2, 2013 (Newswise) — In recent years, healthy people have been bombarded by stories in the media and on health websites warning about the dangers of too-low vitamin D levels, and urging high doses of supplements to protect against everything from hypertension to hardening of the arteries to diabetes.
But new research from Johns Hopkins finds tha
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