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Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes successfully managed online

28 Sep 2017

People with type 2 diabetes could improve their health by using a new web-based self-management tool, according to new research.

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Lose weight now

Opinion: Maintaining the same weight as you age may prevent diabetes – even if you’re overweight to begin with

19 May 2017

Dr Adina Feldman, writing for The Conversation, looks at how diabetes can be prevented even in people who are moderately overweight.

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Day 99: 31-28-31

Extending weight loss programme helps overweight people keep more weight off and is cost-effective

04 May 2017

Extending NHS weight loss programmes from one session per week for 12-weeks to one session per week for a year helped people who are overweight to...

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The researchers found that a high fat and high sugar diet exaggerates metabolic changes in the mother which occur naturally during pregnancy, potentially rendering her more susceptible to health complications.

High fat, high sugar diet during pregnancy 'programs' for health complications in mother and child

06 Apr 2017

Eating a high fat and high sugar diet when pregnant leads to metabolic impairments in both the mother and her unborn child, which may 'program' them...

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Diabetes (rotated)

New approach to treating type 1 diabetes aims to limit damage caused by our own immune system

11 Oct 2016

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have taken the first step towards developing a new form of treatment for type 1 diabetes which, if...

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Molecule display

Missing link in epigenetics could explain conundrum of disease inheritance

07 Jul 2016

The process by which a mother’s diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring’s attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced...

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Diabetes sniffer dogs? ‘Scent’ of hypos could aid development of new tests

27 Jun 2016

A chemical found in our breath could provide a flag to warn of dangerously-low blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to new...

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Diabetes

Genetic approach could help identify side-effects at early stages of drug development

01 Jun 2016

An approach that could reduce the chances of drugs failing during the later stages of clinical trials has been demonstrated by a collaboration...

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Maternal obesity and diabetes in pregnancy result in early overgrowth of the baby in the womb

08 Apr 2016

The babies of obese women who develop gestational diabetes are five times as likely to be excessively large by six months of pregnancy, according to...

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Diabetes 2/4

Surprise finding suggests diabetes drug could release rather than prevent blood sugar

21 Sep 2015

Graham Ladds, lecturer in pharmacology, discusses the controversy around a group of drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes.

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GLP-1 Agonists are injectable drugs that regulate blood sugar levels and have also been shown to promote weight loss, making them an attractive form of treatment for Type 2 diabetes, which is often linked to obesity.

Study highlights possible knowledge gap over effects of some diabetes drugs

18 Sep 2015

Scientists have found that some drugs from a group of anti-diabetic treatments may, in certain circumstances, act on glucagon receptors in the body...

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Study participant Daniel Walls, 12

New study shows artificial pancreas works for length of entire school term

17 Sep 2015

Technology assisting people with type 1 diabetes edges closer to perfection.

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