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STUDY: Antibiotics in First Year of Life May Up Risk for T1DM by Age 10
Posted by Physicians Weekly | Mar 19, 2020 THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Antibiotic prescriptions in the first year of life are associated with an increased risk for type 1 diabetes in childhood, according to a study published online March 4 in Diabetes Care. Mona-Lisa Wernroth, from Uppsala…
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New genetic discoveries help predict risk for type 1, type 2 diabetes
Researchers continue to discover more each year about the genetic risk factors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and how those risk factors interact with the environment. Scientists have linked several genetic mutations to diabetes risk, though not everyone with a genetic mutation will go on to develop the…
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Brain function irregular in children with Type 1 diabetes, study says
he default mode network, which controls the brain at rest, does not switch off in children with Type 1 diabetes when they focus on a task, a study led by Stanford scientists has shown. Dec 9 2019 Children with Type 1 diabetes show subtle but important differences in brain function…
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FDA Approves Insulin Glargine Injection for Pediatric Patients with Diabetes
2019-11-26 11:43:00 Jennifer Nessel, Assistant Editor Officials with the FDA have approved an expanded indication for insulin glargine injection (Toujeo, Sanofi) 300 Units/ml as a long-acting insulin to improve blood sugar control in adult and pediatric patients, age 6 years and older, with diabetes.1 The drug was previously approved by…
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Clinical trial seeks Type 1 diabetics
A clinical trial at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB is seeking patients aged 18-65 with Type 1 diabetes whose hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C), a measure of sugar in the blood, is between 7% and 10%. The 52-week study will determine whether patients with Type 1 diabetes…
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Type 1 diabetes: Baby given insulin powder in trial
A mum has volunteered her baby to take part in a medical trial she hopes will protect the youngster from diabetes. Chloe Phippard’s five-month-old daughter Ava will take a daily dose of insulin powder to see if it can prevent children developing the condition. The trial will explore if the…
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Abundance of Enteroviruses in the Gut Linked to Type 1 Diabetes Precursor
A new study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health investigators has added new findings on the link between the presence of enteroviruses in children’s intestinal tracts and the onset of islet autoimmunity, which leads to type 1 diabetes. Nonpolio enteroviruses made the news in 2018 after 1 enterovirus…
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‘Paradigm shift’ in type 1 diabetes shows new drugs which could delay disease’s emergence
Scientists may have been looking in the wrong place for a cure to type 1 diabetes after a new study claims to have found “a paradigm shift” in treatment. Researchers have found the disease could be kept at bay in animals by clearing out defective insulin-producing cells. Drug development has…
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Groundbreaking results in type 1 diabetes research
Story by Christiane Manow-Le Ruyet | Nov 29, 2018 | Tags: Helmholz Zentrum, muenchen, stemm cells MUNICH, 29th November 2018 – German scientists have taken a major step forward in research into type 1 diabetes. They have identified the signals responsible for the development of immature pancreatic cells. This could pave…
