Diabetes

But childhood obesity epidemic could undo gains, heart associationsaysU.S. Deaths Down From Heart Disease, Stroke

Patients taking two widely used diabetes drugs have reported blurry vision and swelling of the legs and feet, the Food and Drug Administration and manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline said …Diabetes patients report drug side effects - Diabetes- msnbc.com

But childhood obesity epidemic could undo gains, heart associationsaysU.S. Deaths Down From Heart Disease, Stroke

First the painkiller Vioxx; now the diabetes drug Avandia. Another big drug safety issue has consumer groups, doctors and congressmen calling for an overhaul of the U.S. Food and …

VitalCare Diabetes Treatment Centers Opens New Clinic In Costa Mesa!

22nd July 2008

Author: Robert Palmer

Costa Mesa, CA ? VitalCare Diabetes Treatment Centers is excited to announce the opening of their new Costa Mesa Clinic.

?This isn?t just treatment,? says President and Co-Founder Dr. Marc Rose. ?The root cause of diabetes isn?t the pancreas, it isn?t insulin. Diabetes is caused by a malfunctioning metabolism and what we have here is the only procedure FDA approved to fix the metabolism.?

Dr. Rose says VitalCare?s iCat Therapy can stop, stabilize and even repair damage from Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, such as bleeding into the eyes, kidney damage and extremity damage leading to amputation. After more than 20 years of research no negative side effects have been reported.

Essentially, VitalCare treatment centers use iCat Therapy to micro-dose pulsate insulin and mimic the normal function of the pancreas to trigger a more normal liver function.

With the addition of this Costa Mesa clinic the FDA approved once a week treatment is now available at 3 clinics, with more opening soon. VitalCare has recently became a publicly traded company (VDTI).

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says 20.8 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes and another one third is un-diagnosed.

?We have developed a way to keep diabetics from having to face the otherwise inevitable breakdown of their bodies,? says Dr. Rose. ?What a true gift that we are now able to share that advancement with diabetes sufferers around the world.?
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Located at 3420 Bristol Street, Suite 700, Costa Mesa, California 92626, this 10-thousand square foot office is expected to treat up to 100 diabetes patients a week. www.vitalcaretechnology.com

The authors of the new breakthrough book “The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle” will conduct free diabetes screenings and educational workshops at the Washington DC Housing Authority on Tuesday, March 4th. 1 out of 12 people in the Washington DC metropolitan area are already diagnosed with Diabetes and many more are walking around undiagnosed. The authors of the 30-Day Diabetes Miracle are coming to the …Residents of Washington DC Housing Authority Receive Free Diabetes Screenings & Healthy Living Workshop (Centre Daily Times)

Akron General Medical Center has rescheduled its ”Dining With Diabetes” class for tonight. The three-class series, scheduled to begin tonight, has been rescheduled for March 4, 11 and 18.Akron General reschedules ‘Dining With Diabetes’ class (Akron Beacon Journal)

Diabetes During Pregnancy

19th April 2008

Author: aaron nimocks

Diabetes is an age old disease, which is recorded as early as Greek civilization. This disease is characterized by excretion of large amount of very dilute urine. Diabetes can also be explained as a syndrome characterized by disordered metabolism and inappropriate blood sugar level.

On the basis of symptoms diabetes can be classified into two types - a) diabetes mellitus b) diabetes insipidus.

While diabetes mellitus is characterized by high blood sugar level, resulting from low insulin (hormone which controls the sugar level in blood) level, the characteristic symptoms are excessive urine production (polyuria), excessive thirst, and increased fluid intake (polydipsia) and blurred vision.

On the other hand, diabetes insipidus is characterized by excretion of large amount of severely diluted urine, which can not be reduced when fluid intake is reduced, leading to severe inability of kidney to concentrate urine.

World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes three main forms of diabetes mellitus; one of them is termed as gestational diabetes which occurs during pregnancy. Early diagnosis can cure the disease.

The basic cause of diabetes during pregnancy is that, mother’s body is the sole supplier of glucose (sugar that results from the digestion of food) to the baby. This glucose is delivered to the baby through placenta. in return placenta produces certain hormones which helps the baby to develop, but on other hand these hormones prevents mothers body to use insulin and at later stage placenta increases these anti-insulin hormones which blocks the movement of glucose from the blood stream to the cell of the mother’s body. This condition is termed as insulin resistance which leads to gestational diabetes.

There are several factors which increases the chance of developing diabetes during pregnancy, which includes the parents may have a family history of diabetes, obesity, the mother being over age 25 and the mother have a previous record of giving birth to a stillborn child or to a baby weighing nine pounds.

Though there are no obvious symptoms of gestational diabetes, but American diabetes association recommends all women to be screened for gestational diabetes between 24th and 28th week of pregnancy.

The following are the names of such screenings a) blood glucose test b) glucose tolerance test.

There can be many cases that the woman may have pre existing diabetes. In that case the mother must be warned against the complicacies that may arise during pregnancy. Careful planning and preconception care can allow the diabetic woman to have a problem free pregnancy.

Aaron Nimocks is a frequent blogger at Pregnancy Hut and has written a guide on 11 weeks pregnant and 12 weeks pregnant.

Living Cell Technologies Limited today announced that the Company has signed a term sheet with the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes to establish a diabetes clinical trial program in Denver, Colorado.

Diabetes mellitus ( IPA : /dabitiz/ or /dabits/ , /mlats/ or /mlts/ ), often simply diabetes ( Greek : ), is a syndrome …Diabetes mellitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia