Topic: Type 1 Diabetes

Many kids with diabetes have other immune diseases

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A third of children with type 1 diabetes have signs of other immune system disorders when they get diagnosed with diabetes, according to a new study.The findings, researchers say, underscore the importance of keeping an eye out ...

Counting carbs may help with type 1 diabetes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Tallying the number of carbohydrates in the diet may be helpful to people using an insulin pump to treat type 1 diabetes, a small study suggests.The study, of 61 adults on insulin pump therapy, found that those ...

Study challenges "carb counting" in diabetes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How many carbs you eat might be less important for your blood sugar than your food's glycemic load, a measure that also takes into account how quickly you absorb those carbs.That's the conclusion of a new study ...

"Artificial pancreas" shows promise in pregnancy

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have shown how an "artificial pancreas" can help pregnant women with type 1 diabetes and say their finding could significantly reduce cases of stillbirth and death among diabetic expectant mothers.British researchers used a so-called "closed-loop insulin delivery system" ...
Since management of type 1 diabetes improved markedly in the 1980s, survival rates in those with the disease have improved as well, but mortality is still much higher than that in the general population, according to research published in the December issue ...
FRIDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) Death rates have dropped significantly in people with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study. As a result, people with type 1 diabetes make little or no insulin, and must rely on lifelong insulin replacement either ...
FRIDAY, Nov. 26 Death rates have dropped significantly in people with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.. As a result, people with type 1 diabetes make little or no insulin, and must rely on lifelong insulin replacement either through injections ...
Studies have suggested that the life expectancy in insulin dependent diabetes may depend on the age of the patient at the onset of diabetes and various complications that may arise with people who are diagnosed with insulin dependent diabetes, also known as ...
An antibody therapy that's approved to treat certain cancers and arthritis has helped prevent--and even beat back--type 1 diabetes in mice. The absence of mouse studies was "a concern in our scientific community," says immunologist Li Wen of Yale University. Wen's animals ...
HLA instigates the body's immune response by presenting fragments from pathogens to the immune cells, which in turn fight the pathogens off. To test the idea, Mignot teamed with Stanford geneticist Joachim Hallmayer and a network of colleagues spanning three continents. They ...