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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May 16, 2013 (Newswise) —  A clinical trial at the University of Chicago Medicine aims to find new ways of preventing type 2 diabetes or slow its progression by treating participants with medications normally used for people who have had full-blown diabetes for at least one year. The trial will enroll individuals who are pr

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April 30, 2013 (Newswise) — Gastric bypass surgery alters the hormones and amino acids produced during digestion, hinting at the mechanisms through which the surgery eliminates symptoms of type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (J

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April 11, 2013 (Johns Hopkins) — A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has found that a protein long believed to have a minor role in type 2 diabetes is, in fact, a central player in the development of the condition that affects nearly 26 million people in the United States alone and counts as one of the leading causes of heart disease, stroke and kidney, eye and nerve damage.

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April 3, 2013 (AMA) — With previous evidence suggesting that melatonin may have a role in glucose metabolism, researchers have found an independent association between decreased secretion of melatonin and an increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the April 3 issue of JAMA.

"Melatonin receptors have been found throughout the body in many tissues including pancreatic islet cells, reflecting the

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