Insulin-Like Protein Points to New Diabetes Drugs
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NEW YORK  - Japanese investigators have  isolated a new compound produced by fat tissue that shares  properties with insulin and may lead to the development of new  diabetes drugs. They call the protein visfatin.
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AtheroGenics announces the path forward for its lead drug.
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A protein which helps increase lifespan in worms offers hope for new Parkinson's and Alzheimer's treatments.
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MONDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- One of a new class of diabetes drugs delayed the progression of type 2 diabetes along with the need to add additional medications.
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NEW YORK  - An experimental drug has been  shown to combat the underlying cause of nerve damage that  occurs in people with diabetes.
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Here's what a newly approved drug looks like.
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NEW YORK  - There is some evidence that  various types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure could  hasten or impede the development of type 2 diabetes, but the  latest findings don't support that idea.
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Possible stem cells identified in the mouse pancreas could hold the key to new treatments for type 1 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada believe that the cells
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New research shows that insulin plays a key role in the brain  -  and in the onset of Alzheimer's disease, prompting some researchers to call it "type 3" diabetes
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People with diabetes may soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
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NEW YORK  - The first of a new class of oral antidiabetic drugs is able to lower blood sugar (glucose) in type 2 diabetes as well as Avandia (rosiglitazone) does, but without causing weight gain, according to a report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have induced human insulin-producing cells of the pancreas to revert to islet precursor cells.
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Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG said it has mapped the genome of a large group of type-2 diabetes patients, enabling scientists to better search for the genes causing the disease.
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Scientists say they have engineered a molecule which could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
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University of Toronto researchers have identified cells in an adult mouse pancreas capable of generating insulin-producing beta cells.
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NEW YORK  - In the lab, multiple myeloma  cells are killed by drugs similar to existing anti-diabetes  drugs like Avandia or Actos, according to researchers at the  University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New  York.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified a weakness in a protein in influenza viruses which could be targeted by new drugs to halt the spread of infection.