Diabetes news 2006-05-31

The partnership is the latest in JDRFs innovative Industry Discovery and Development Partnership Program, in which the worlds leading charitable funder of research for type 1 diabetes teams with biotechnology companies to develop drugs, therapies, and treatments for diabetes. The program supports companies -- often in collaboration with academic researchers -- to develop or test, in preclinical models or early-stage clinical trials, novel therapeutic approaches for diagnosis, prevention or treatment of type 1 diabetes or its complications.

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Novocell, JDRF Announce Partnership to Clinically Test Encapsulated Human Islets. - NEW YORK /PRNewswire/ -- The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announced today that it has established a partnership with Novocell, Inc. an Irvine, California-based, biotechnology company, to support an on-going proof of principle phase I/II human clinical trial for Novocells polyethylene glycol

Markets the Vertical Auto Profile, or VAP, Test, which is designed to provide information on cholesterol subclasses. The company says this information enables a more accurate determination of risks associated with cardiovascular disease. Atherotech officials claim the simple blood test - the cost of which is reimbursed by most insurance companies and Medicare - identifies up to 90 percent of people at risk for heart disease, compared with 40 percent when standard cholesterol tests are used.

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This study follows a report published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which had said that middle-aged Britons were healthier than middle-aged Americans. That report had found rates of diabetes, heart disease and obesity to be much higher in Americans aged 40 to 70 as compared to Britons in the same age bracket.

( ) - Canadians are healthier than Americans and have lesser unmet health needs than their American counterparts, according to a new study by Harvard Medical School researchers. Americans are also 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes and 32 percent more likely to have high blood pressure.

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Alayna Treadwell, 6, of Orrington goes to kindergarten at Center Drive School in Orrington. She is just like any other child in her class when it comes to having fun, but she also has to deal with being diabetic. Alayna was diagnosed with Type I diabetes when she was 4 years old. BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY GABOR DEGRE

Schools all over Maine educate students with diabetes, both Type I and Type II. The state Department of Education does not keep figures on diabetic children. Following is a list of Bangor-area school systems that have students monitored by their school systems because of diabetes.

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WHEN: 100 Mile - Century Ride - Check-in /Start 63 Mile - Fitness Challenge - Check-in /Start 32 Mile - Fitness Test - Check-in /Start 12 Mile - Family Fun Ride - Check-in /Start WHERE: Reston Town Center, Reston, VA WHO: Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, along with 800 area riders ROUTES: The routes are different for each distance. * Century (100 miles) riders will travel from Reston Town Center, through Ashburn, Hamilton, Waterford and Lovettsville before returning on the same route. * The Fitness Challenge (63 miles) riders will ride to Ashburn and back. * The Fitness Test (32 miles)

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Tour de France Winner Greg LeMond to Join 800 Cyclists in Reston. - RESTON, Va /PRNewswire/ -- The roads and trails of northern Virginia will be blazing on as cyclists of every age and fitness level will be participating in the American Diabetes Associations Tour de Cure.

The new study found that 6. 7 per cent of Americans and 4. 7 per cent of Canadians reported having diabetes; 18. 3 per cent and 13. 9 per cent, respectively, reported having high blood pressure; and 17. 9 per cent and 16. 0 per cent said they had arthritis. The Americans also reported more heart disease and major depression, but those difference were too small to be statistically significant.

Americans are 42 per cent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, 32 per cent more likely to have high blood pressure, and 12 per cent more likely to have arthritis, Harvard Medical School researchers found. That is according to a survey in which American and Canadian adults were asked over the telephone about their health.

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Two separate approaches will be used to develop diagnostic tests, one based on nanobead technology and the other on a multiplexing platform allowing combination of several measurables into a single test. Both technologies will utilize antibody capture methods and newly developed antibody libraries. This will translate into early identification of patients at high risk of rapid loss of kidney function. The validation of the diagnostic tests emerges form the use of the largest European urine, serum and DNA databases of diabetic nephropathy with the meticulously collected follow-up samples.

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More than 70 pct. of Chronic kidney disease patients die before achieving the specific Chronic kidney disease treatments including dialysis and transplantation. - Innovations Needed To Monitor Kidney Health Disease

She pointed out that at the time of diagnosis, the doctor should of course attempt to determine which type of diabetes is present. However if the type cannot be determined initially, the young person should be started on insulin therapy while waiting for test results that hopefully will clarify the situation.

Quot;Double diabetes suggests that elements of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes co-exist in the same person. Blurring the issue further is the fact that people with type 1 have family members with type 2 and vice versa. This means that a considerable number of people may be at genetic risk for both kinds of diabetes", Professor Kaufman said.

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ICT is going to make dramatic changes to how we manage health as individuals. Take, for example, a pilot study in north-east England on diabetes management. These diabetic patients are all on a database and are texted with a message saying: "What is your blood sugar today?" The patient texts the answer back into the database. If it is within the required limits they get a: "Well done". If it is outside the limits, the nurses computer alerts him or her to call this patient and gives them the telephone number. It is very successful. With the latest technology, the test strip for blood sugar can be read straight into the mobile phone so that the patient does not even have to be asked what it is. In the future, patients could pay to interact with their digital television and say: "I have got these symptoms. What shall I do?" After all,

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A womans quest for sight and seeing machine

About 10 years ago, when she was nearly blind in both eyes, her doctor recommended a test to find out whether she had any healthy retina left at all. The test involved a large usd. 100,000 machine called a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, which would let the doctor examine her retinas and project images directly onto them. If there were any live spots, the device might let her see.

Elizabeth Goldrings eyesight has come and gone over the years. Mostly, it has gone. Now 61, she has had juvenile diabetes, or Type I diabetes, since college, and the disease has pecked away at her vision, causing hemorrhages in her retinas, the fragile layer of light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye.

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A poet and artist has enlisted the help of scientists and engineering students to create a "seeing machine" that may eventually help people like her, with severely impaired vision, to read, look at pictures and explore landscapes and buildings. - Iht healthscience By Denise Grady