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Posts Tagged diabetes

Do you have diabetes? Are you sure?

February 4, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
8 Million Americans Don’t Know They Have Diabetes A quarter of those in United States living with diabetes do not know they have it. This fun fact courtesy of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Yup, an estimated 29.1 million people (almost 10% of the population) in the US have diabetes, but […]

Could this be the Diabetes fix we need?

November 24, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
There is a bright glimmer of hope in the awful world of diabetes. Funding has been secured for a clinical trial of a drug that not only prevents mice from getting type I diabetes, but actually reverses the condition if it has already taken hold. The drug in question, Verapamil, is already used to treat […]