02/09/2010 | Diabetes will soon be diagnosed using HbA1c measured in mmol/mol despite some imperfections in the technique "so you’d better get used to it," Professor Peter Colman told a packed audience at the Australian Diabetes Society Annual Scientific Meeting yesterday.
02/09/2010 | Treating gestational diabetes mellitus needs to be more nuanced than simply making sure glucose tolerance falls below the maximum acceptable threshold, Professor Aiden McElduff told the ADS-ADEA Annual Scientific Meeting this week.
26/08/2010 | British diabetes experts have urged more research on bariatric surgery to establish its long-term safety and efficacy in treating diabetes, and to compare it more accurately with existing and emerging non-surgical alternatives.
26/08/2010 | The FDA must either remove rosiglitazone from the market or limit its prescription using a registry for compassionate use, says the chair of 2007 joint advisory committee to the FDA, and member of the 2010 advisory committee, Clifford Rosen.
26/08/2010 | Diabetes incidence rates are significantly higher in Aboriginal Australians but impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance can identify those at high-risk, a study finds.
26/08/2010 | A blood glucose monitoring system that identifies high and low glucose excursions is now available in Australia.
19/08/2010 | Bariatric surgery eliminates the need for medications in nearly 85% of patients with type 2 diabetes, with most patients gaining independence from diabetes medications within six months, a large American study finds.
12/08/2010 | Eliminating diabetes, treating depression, and increasing literacy via public health policies can lead to significant decreases in the incidence of dementia, a population study finds.
12/08/2010 | People over 70 years of age are "generally neglected" in clinical trials of aspirin as a prevention for cardiovascular disease, delegates at the CSANZ conference heard this week.
04/08/2010 | A study of more than 1,800 children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the US state of Washington has provided support for the 'hygiene hypothesis' as a causative factor and for the theory that early pancreatic overload is also implicated.