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Friday, October, 23, 2009

Is There A Way To Cure Diabetes

'Double diabetes' is growing more common

October 02, 2008
Patients who have Type 1 diabetes and are overweight are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes as well. This problem--called 'double diabetes'--is becoming more common. Doctors say it is difficult to treat both types of the disease at once, since drugs that treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes work differently. Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Beta Cell Regeneration: The Latest Update from the University of Pittsburgh
By Dr. Fran Cogen , Health Expert

...offered my vision for a potential treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus. I proposed that a... Read more »

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Looking Back and Forth at Our Story
By David Mendosa , Health Expert

When we focus only on our longing for a diabetes cure, we get understandably impatient and... Read more »

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I is for Insulin
By David Mendosa , Health Expert

...yet, in 1995.The current (June-July 2007) issue of Diabetes Health covers the question in Linda... Read more »

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Mice cured of diabetes?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...proportion. First some background: there’s a type of diabetes in mice that’s called NOD... Read more »

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Types of Diabetes: are there more than two?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...recently received an e-mail inquiring about "type 3 diabetes." The writer stated "It's very... Read more »

Health Guide

What do I need to know about diabetes?"
Diabetes is called a disorder of metabolism. More simply put, diabetes keeps your body from properly utilizing the sugar obtained from food. Your body changes most of the food you eat into a form of... Read more »
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
What is gestational diabetes mellitus?Pregnancy has typically been viewed as a statement of health, as it should be. In the midst of morning sickness, heartburn, exhaustion, and the excitement of... Read more »
Pre-Diabetes Risks, Symptoms & Prevention
Pre-diabetes is a health condition that carries no symptoms. Commonly referred to as "impaired glucose tolerance," approximately 54 million people in the United States twenty years and... Read more »
Just Diagnosed? Our expert patients give their advice
...disorder that you can live with (but which if ignored, you could die from).  Although there's no cure for diabetes, there's lots of hope for even better ways to treat it than ever before. ... Read more »
Stanford University Seeks Help in Patient Study
Self-Management@Stanford Healthier Living with Diabetes is a workshop and study given on the Internet. Researchers at Stanford University are currently recruiting participants with type 2 diabetes... Read more »

Medications

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...high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...(ex-EN-a-tide) Uses Exenatide is used along with other oral diabetes medications (e.g.,... Read more »

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...to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It... Read more »

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...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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