Diabetes Challenges: Dealing With Diabetes On Valentine's Day at Daily Diabetic

Living with diabetes presents all sorts of challenges, but never more than on holidays. This is an especially big problem in America, where every major holiday is centered around food, usually of the unhealthy variety. Bigger than even Halloween with the huge amounts of sugary confections it offers, Valentine's Day is especially challenging. It can be so frustrating when good-intentioned, but unaware, friends give you candy, when you don't want to [...] Read More


Star-studded Diabetes Fundraiser at Daily Diabetic

What: 2008 Carousel of Hope When: October 25, 2008 Where: Beverly Hilton This year's Carousel of Hope - a diabetes fund raiser - will be a star-studded one in order to raise money for the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Denver and the Los Angeles chapters of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Diabetes Association. This year, Jay Leno will be hosting and big performers such as Josh Groban and [...] Read More


ADA Diabetes Cookbook is Best in the World at Daily Diabetic

The American Diabetes Association (ADA)'s The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook: The Whole Food approach to Great Taste and Healthy Eating authored by Jackie Newgent won the 2007 Gourmand Best Health and Nutrition Book in the World Award in London, England. Created to increase knowledge of and respect for food and wine culture, the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards reward those who "cook with words" and help readers find the best out of the [...] Read More


November is Diabetes Awareness Month at Straightfromthedoc

November is American Diabetes Month or National Diabetes Awareness Month. There are "many faces of diabetes." Nearly 21 million children and adults in the United States are living with diabetes, and another 54 million people are at-risk. But those aren't the only faces affected by diabetes. If you are a parent or loved one caring for someone with diabetes, your face is in the picture too. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) will [...] Read More


Merck KGaA Licenses Glenmark Pharmaceuticals' DPPIV Inhibitor for Type 2 Diabetes at The Biotech Weblog

Merck KGaA and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A (Switzerland), a wholly owned subsidiary of India-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals hve entered into a collaborative agreement to develop Glenmark's DPPIV inhibitor GRC 8200, a treatment for type 2 diabetes, currently under Phase II clinical development. DPPIV inhibitors are a class of drugs that work by inhibiting the activity of the DPP-IV enzyme, thereby stimulating the secretion of higher levels of insulin. The value of all [...] Read More