diabetes

The Saudi royal family has started a not-for-profit organization called the Hevolution Foundation that plans to spend up to $1 billion a year of its oil wealth supporting basic research on the biology of aging and finding ways to extend the number of years people live in good health, a concept known as “health span.” The sum, if the Saudis can spend it, could make the Gulf state the largest single sponsor of researchers attempting to understand the underlying causes of aging—and how it might be slowed down with drugs.…

A recently approved diabetes drug being clinically investigated for its effects on body weight in obese and overweight people has delivered "substantial and sustained reductions in body weight" in a phase 3 clinical trial, according to results now published in The New England Journal of Medicine.  Tirzepatide, developed by American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), is a once-weekly injection under the skin, originally developed for type 2 diabetes treatment.While not yet indicated for this use, it…

Around 95,600 children are suffering from type-1 diabetes below the age of 14 years in India with nearly 16,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the age- group, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Monday as it released treatment guidelines for the disease. Prof (Dr) Balram Bhargava, director general of ICMR released guidelines for management of type 1 diabetes providing advice on care of diabetes in children, adolescents and adults.…

Andrea Park / Fierce Biotech: France-based Diabeloop, whose AI-based diabetes management tech automatically adjusts insulin as needed, raises a €70M Series C led by LBO France — After decades of having to juggle multiple devices and fingerprick systems to take their own blood sugar readings and use … Andrea Park / Fierce Biotech: France-based Diabeloop, whose AI-based diabetes management tech automatically adjusts insulin as needed, raises a €70M Series C led by LBO France …

According to a new study, drinking a small amount of whey protein before meals can help control blood sugar in individuals with type 2 diabetes.Drinking a small serving of whey protein before meals has been shown to help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugars.According to new research, which holds the potential for dietary management of type 2 diabetes, participants with the condition drank a pre-made shot before meals which contained a low dose of whey protein. They were monitored for a week as they went…

Comparing those with type 2 diabetes and those without, a new study published in the journal eLife has found the disease significantly accelerates brain aging. While the pattern of neurodegeneration is similar to normal brain aging, it was found to progress around 26 percent faster in those with the largely preventable disease.For the first-of-its-kind study, the researchers drew on a dataset from the UK Biobank, specifically brain structure and function data for 20,000 people aged 50 to 80 years old. Using this data and…

Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes today means a lifetime of insulin injections – as of yet, we don't have a simple one-time fix on hand.To date, each breakthrough promising a diabetes cure has encountered significant hurdles, making it not viable for the vast majority of people. Now, researchers in the US have improved upon one type of transplant-based treatment, potentially giving hope to the 9 million people around the world with this condition.  "The immune system is a tightly controlled defense mechanism that…

Two common herpesviruses may contribute to impaired glucose metabolism and increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) among infected individuals, according to new research.A new research study published on May 11, 2022, in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ) finds that two common herpesviruses may contribute to impaired glucose metabolism and an increase in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) among infected individuals. The research was conducted by Dr. Tim…

One of the ways scientists hope to lighten the burden of living with type 1 diabetes is through transplantations of cells that produce insulin, shoring up supplies of the vital hormone and safely regulating blood-sugar levels into the future. Rejection of these cells by the host's immune system is a serious stumbling block for this still-experimental therapy, but new bead-like materials offer new hope by neutralizing these attacks and negating the need for long-term immunosuppressant drugs that have severe side…

Two common herpesviruses have been associated with the onset of prediabetes in a new study led by researchers in Germany. The findings build on a growing body of evidence connecting viral infections to the development of chronic disease.Over recent years scientists have found a number of compelling associations between diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer’s and infectious pathogens. In some cases these relationships are explicitly causal. For example, we know infections with human papilloma virus (HPV)…