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Australian discovery boosts hopes of preventing Type 1 diabetes

Drug Discovery World

Australian researchers based may be a step closer to preventing Type 1 diabetes after identifying a crucial protein that could prevent the autoimmune disease from taking hold. Type 1 diabetes is a potentially life-threatening chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.

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Can Fruit Lower the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes?

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Therefore, eating an apple a day may in fact keep the doctor away. Researchers at the Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) Institute for Nutrition Research in Perth, Australia found that consuming at least two servings of fruit a day was linked to 36 percent lower odds of developing type 2 diabetes. Keep it Fresh.

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Treatment Reverses Young Man’s Type 1 Diabetes. Will It Last?

The Pharma Data

7, 2020 — After starting a drug that’s officially approved to treat a type of blood cancer, a young man with type 1 diabetes was able to stop using insulin. He’s been off insulin since August 2018 — more than two years. Dr. Lisa Forbes — his doctor and co-author of a letter describing his case in the Oct.

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The US biosimilar market: Predictions for 2021

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As we’ve seen over those five years, biosimilars are critical in continuing to provide doctors and patients choice in their care plans as well as continuing to decrease overall healthcare costs. One of these markets is the insulin market. Americans pay ten times as much for insulin as Canadian patients do. million patients.

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Diabetes Boosts Odds for Heart Trouble 10-fold in Younger Women

The Pharma Data

21, 2021 – – With rising obesity rates, more young women American women are developing type 2 diabetes , putting them at hugely increased risk for heart disease, new research shows. Insulin resistance occurs when cells in muscles, fat and the liver don’t respond well to insulin and can’t use glucose.

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FDA approves Lyumjev® (insulin lispro-aabc injection) 100 units/mL for use in insulin pumps

The Pharma Data

approval of pump use for Lilly’s novel insulin is latest development designed to help people with diabetes manage blood sugar levels. Lyumjev, a novel formulation of insulin lispro developed to speed the absorption of insulin into the bloodstream and reduce A1C levels, was approved by the FDA in June 2020.

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Type 2 Diabetes Drug Metformin Could Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers

The Pharma Data

1, 2021 — Women with type 2 diabetes may be more likely to develop breast cancer, but taking the diabetes drug metformin appears to reduce their risk for the most common type, new research finds. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C. MONDAY, Feb. The findings were published Jan.

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