Sentences with phrase «[against diabetes»

He cited a recent potential cure for Type 1 diabetes developed by studying pancreases from body donors.

With its established diabetes treatments in the firing line especially due to U.S. price pressures, Novo Nordisk needs to find new revenue lines that will be less sensitive to political pressures.

The first is Project ScanaFlo, an early diagnostic tool that uses the smartphone as a urine - analysis reader to check for pregnancy complications, gestational diabetes, and kidney failure.

Having worked closely on major diabetes treatment medications like metformin and Sanofi's flagship insulin Lantus, Chew was taken with the idea that such treatments, however innovative, don't have to be necessary by default.

This way, patients with chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes (and their physicians) can figure out the most effective dosing regimens.

FDA APPROVES FIRST AI - POWERED RETINOPATHY APP: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greenlit the marketing of IDx - DR, the first medical device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect diabetic retinopathy — a leading cause of blindness among people with diabetes.

That means peace of mind for diabetes patients, who no longer have to constantly prick their fingers to measure blood sugar and manually adjust insulin doses, and hope for recovering opioid addicts, who might face a relapse if they don't adhere to a strict treatment protocol.

Research shows an alkaline diet can help reduce the risk of hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, and low bone density, among other things.)

Consider: CVS is also one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the country through its Caremark arm, so insurance coverage, filling prescriptions, and treating chronic health conditions like diabetes could all be housed under one company.

Omada's digital therapeutics platform attempts to address disparate health care needs that can be particularly cumbersome for people at risk for chronic diseases like diabetes through a combination of data analytics, user engagement, and the broad goal of preventing these kinds of conditions from developing in the first place.

Innovent and Ascentage will be following Shanghai Henlius Biotech, backed by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, diabetes - focused drug developer Hua Medicine and U.S. - based cancer detection start - up Grail, among others, in eyeing Hong Kong listings.

The collaboration will involve creating machine learning methods which can analyze mountains of existing type 1 diabetes research in order to figure out risk factors and, hopefully, effective prevention measures.

They include: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide.

Omada Health has accomplished a rare feat in the crowded world of digital health hopefuls: it's backed up lofty claims with actual results, helping the company score federal government reimbursements for its high - tech diabetes prevention program.

This type of automated, long - term delivery system could make it easier to treat everything from brain diseases to diabetes.

Danish pharma company Novo Nordisk (nvo), best known for its insulin - based treatments for diabetes, said Tuesday it's going to shift its focus slightly to fighting obesity, one of the primary causes of that disease.

IBM to team up with JDRF on type 1 diabetes.

IBM and JDRF, an outfit focused on funding type 1 diabetes research, are teaming up to analyze the factors that may lead to that form of diabetes.

The Boston company is seeking FDA approval for an under - the - skin pump system that it says can dispense a steady stream of diabetes drugs for a period of six months or longer.

Newfoundland and Labrador also has some of the highest per capita rates of a number of diseases, including colon cancer, diabetes, and psoriasis.

One Austrian research group, for instance, found highly significant associations between diabetes and 123 separate diseases.

Diabetes drug specialist Novo Nordisk and Glooko have joined forces on a smartphone diabetes maintenance platform.

Other early seeds include the hot diabetes - drug company Intarcia Therapeutics (which I wrote about in November) and the Jonathan Bush - helmed athenahealth (now worth nearly $ 5 billion), which has become a prominent force in the age of the cloud - based doctor's office and hospital.

According to a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, artificial sweeteners have been linked to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.

«The [death] rate increased 0.9 % for heart disease, 2.7 % for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 6.7 % for unintentional injuries, 3.0 % for stroke, 15.7 % for Alzheimer's disease, 1.9 % for diabetes, 1.5 % for kidney disease, and 2.3 % for suicide.

Some 29 million Americans have some form of diabetes — and an additional 86 million of us (over the age of 20) have prediabetes, meaning that we have higher - than - normal levels of blood sugar.

As instances of obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic illnesses are on the rise, a subculture where eating less is prized can seem farfetched and against the grain.

Other than accidents and suicides, the top 10 leading causes of death encompass stroke, Alzheimer's, diabetes, the flu and pneumonia, and kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

A drug that was being designed to fight cancer and diabetes melts away arterial plaque.

The consumption of added sugar in foods and beverages has been linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

But researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that a treatment originally designed for fighting cancer and diabetes could melt away fatty arterial plaque with a single dosing and reverse the effects of atherosclerosis, which can lead to multiple heart problems.

They're really heavily intertwined with our metabolism and have an enormous impact on our processing of food and on our health and disease and they've been linked to many different diseases to obesity, to diabetes, to heart disease, and even to cancer and Urological disease.

I've written before that I don't think of diet, exercise, and behavior as preventing cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

We'll figure he means type 2 diabetes, in which the body makes too little insulin or can't use it effectively.

This means that people with diabetes can continuously monitor their blood levels without having to repeatedly use painful finger sticks to check the reading.

Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

The inclusion of a glucose sensor for diabetes patients.

Fitbit recently acquired Twine Health, which offers services like health coaching in the workplace to help manage chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.

Part of these linkages may be due to diabetes» myriad effects on (and damage to) the body as it progresses.

Salt Lake City residents have easy access to financial services, cultural and recreational amenities, and low rates of diabetes and obesity.

A growing collection of research suggests that excess added sugar in the diet has strong links to cancer, and is already strongly tied with obesity, diabetes, and heart and other deadly cardiovascular diseases.

Fitbit shares spike on diabetes monitoring deal.

Novo Nordisk gets into the digital diabetes arena.

Many health fraud scams include bogus dietary supplements, arthritis remedies (magnets, copper bracelets and special diets), anti-aging and weight loss products and unapproved treatments for cancer, diabetes and HIV / AIDS, which may be conducted in foreign «clinics.»

In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

Over time, eating too much food can lead to weight gain and put you at risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

GLP - 1 drugs are used to better control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, and are better known by the brand names: Victoza, Byetta, and Bydureon.

• Zealand Pharma, a Denmark - based biotech focused on peptide - based medicines for type 2 diabetes, has filed for an IPO of American Depository Shares.

While some evidence has suggested a link between diabetes and Alzheimer's in recent years, there's still a lot we don't know about what causes Alzheimer's, let alone how the two conditions are connected.

But costs mount fast for patients who also suffer from diabetes, cancer, or heart disease, or who are recovering from surgery.