It’s not unusual when research proves the benefits of what parents have been telling kids for generations: “Go outside and play!” Mom was right: sedentary kids have a higher risk for getting diabetes in adulthood, according to a new study. According to the Endocrine Society’s 2016 Endocrine Facts and Figures Report, the prevalence of diabetes...

VM BioPharma, the United States division of ViroMed Co., Ltd. in Seoul, Korea, yesterday announced the first patient was dosed in the recently initiated Phase 3 clinical study evaluating VM202, a proprietary DNA based biopharmaceutical, in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). This is the first pivotal gene therapy trial specifically targeting the most common cause...

Last week, the Diabetes Patient Advocacy Coalition (DPAC), an alliance dedicated to promoting and supporting public policy initiatives that improve safety, quality and access for people with diabetes, joined the Congressional Diabetes Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus for a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss how Medicare’s bidding program for diabetes testing supplies has failed...

Last week, Cities Changing Diabetes – Houston unveiled new research, showing three kinds of vulnerability to diabetes across communities and specified 14 social and cultural factors that reinforce them. The research, conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health and sponsored by Novo Nordisk, indicated that across vulnerable populations,...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has officially adopted a policy to encourage private and public health plans to include access to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) evidenced-based National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) as a covered benefit for their beneficiaries. “More than 86 million Americans are currently living with prediabetes and nearly 90%...

According to new data from a study presented at the 76th American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, how healthcare professionals and people with diabetes communicate – as well as the perceived quality of the personal relationship between the parties – directly impacts knowledge of the disease by patients, distress related to living with...

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are conducting a double-blind human clinical trial in the hopes of finding a cure for diabetes. The focus of the trial is on the high blood pressure medication Verapamil, which was found to reverse diabetes in mice. The UAB trial aims to see if the same...