Topic: Australia

A drug known as sulodexide has failed to show any benefit toward halting kidney failure in people with diabetes and an international trial has been stopped early, a US medical journal said Thursday.The drug, once seen as a potentially promising treatment to ...

diabetes type 2 - self control

""Oh no" I seemed to scream , but it was only in my head, did the doctor just say that I had Diabetes.I had just lost my sister who had suffered terribly from Diabetes Mellitus disease and I definitely was not prepared ...

Fast Food Blamed for Diabetes Spike in Asia

Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are blaming the adoption of a Westernized diet and the influx of fast-food restaurants for an increase in type 2 diabetes in Southeast Asia.. The findings, published in the journal Diabetologia, reveal 11 percent ...
Young people with type 1 diabetes report levels of psychosocial well-being at diagnosis similar to those of their peers without diabetes, but over time they are more likely to experience higher rates of psychiatric morbidity and lower rates of school completion, and ...
Australia Diabetes Care Devices Market Outlook GlobalData's medical equipment offering, "Australia Diabetes Care Devices Market Outlook to 2016" provides key market data on the Australia diabetes care devices market. The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data ...

Giving Doctors an Incentive

While partisan rancor over health care continues in the U.S., Australia is forging its own health care path. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd outlined the strain that diabetics place on Australia's health care system: "In 2007-08, around 237,000 hospital admissions were related to ...
African-Americans with type 1 diabetes are at higher risk of developing diabetic retinopathy if they have a high caloric intake, according to a study in the January issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology. In a related study in the same issue, signs ...
Results to provide fresh insights into cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes and confirm benefit of intensive glucose-lowering treatment. Preterax and Diamicron MR Controlled Evaluation), the largest clinical trial ever performed in patients with type 2 diabetes worldwide, will be presented ...
Doctors who gave diabetics a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 percent, a new analysis of research says.Researchers in Australia, Finland and New Zealand studied almost 10,000 patients aged 50 ...
Diabetes drug that lowers cholesterol may also reduce patients' amputation riskDoctors who gave diabetics a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 percent, a new analysis of research says. Researchers in ...
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