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Sunday, October, 25, 2009

Type I Diabetes

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How Often Do We Get 100% Effective Anything in Diabetes?

By AllieBeatty Health Expert

Doctors in Sydney. Austrailia believe they have discovered a novel treatment to prevent the development of Type I diabetes - or at least offset its onset by about 10 years.

 

Researchers are excited about this discovery because it is essentially a new treatment for a high risk patient. A high risk patient is someone who is genetically predisposed to developing Type I diabetes because a parent or sibling already has the disease. With this new treatment - the high risk patient would receive a ser...

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Expert & Community Posts

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Study Yourself!
By Tressa , Health Expert

...presentation on type II diabetes and I did a presentation on type I diabetes? That way we could... Read more »

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Are the drug companies hiding a cure?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...websites trying to find information on cures for Type 1 diabetes. Being a diabetic for 28 out of... Read more »

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The Seriousness of Type 1 Diabetes
By Kelsey Bonilla , Health Expert

...potential for one to forget what a serious disease type 1 diabetes is. Between preparing for... Read more »

Health Guide

Beyond 'I'm a Diabetic', Little Common Ground
...of Diabetes. In these patients the body does not respond to insulin correctly. For every one case of Type I Diabetes, there are 20 cases of Type II, yet the overall funding (both public and... Read more »
Diabetes in Children: Myths and Facts
...unwittingly begin to lose their sight or the circulation in their feet.Myth: The reason some children get Type I diabetes is that their diet was too high in sugar to start with.Fact: People on the... Read more »
Diabetes
...an active lifestyle may prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. Currently there is no way to prevent type 1 diabetes. References Standards of medical care in diabetes--2007. Diabetes Care.... Read more »
Meet Ginger Vieira
...every funny person I meet—everything. When I told people I would be writing blogs about living with Type 1 diabetes, most people replied with, “How long can you really write about that?... Read more »
Gangrene
Prevention Gangrene may be prevented if a harmful process is treated before the tissue damage is irreversible. Wounds should be treated properly and observed for signs of infection (such as... Read more »

Medications

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...medication should not be used to treat people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...medication should not be used to treat people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...medication should not be used to treat people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...This medication should not be used in patients with Type 1 diabetes or for the treatment of... Read more »

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Pioglitazone is an anti-diabetic drug (thiazolidinedione-type, also called "glitazones") used along... Read more »

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