Health News - Diabetes

Amylin shares fall ahead of diabetes drug decision (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Shares of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. fell nearly 4 percent Thursday ahead of a potential Food and Drug Administration decision on the company's long-acting version of a diabetes drug.

The American Diabetes Association Encourages Community Organizations To Join The Movement To Stop Diabetes The American Diabetes Association announced today their efforts to further engage community organizations across the country in raising awareness about the seriousness of diabetes and its complications through the Association's Stop Diabetes movement...

Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: High Cholesterol, Diabetes Lead Drug Spending For The Elderly Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 - about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest AHRQ News and Numbers...

Diabetes and Exercise
Diabetes and Exercise There are two main types of diabetes, type I and type II. Type I diabetes is characterized by the pancreas making too little or no insulin.

Guide to Diabetes
It is estimated that more than 2000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed everyday in the United States alone. While symptoms of Type 1 diabetes are usually obvious, Type 2 often shows few or no symptoms. After a meal, food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells through out the body. Cells use the hormone insulin, made in the pancreas, to process blood glucose into energy.