A drug company can decide which countries it wants to introduce its drugs into first. Here in the United States, we assume drug companies will introduce them here first. Usually American drug companies introduce drugs in the United States. But drug companies in Europe often apply for approval there. The same holds true with Japan, Israel, and other counties where there are quite a few drug-producing companies.

A study out of the Netherlands, and published in the journal Diabetes Care, found that chromium yeast was not beneficial to people with type 2 diabetes. The study lasted six months and enrolled about 60 patients. Chromium yeast is also known as Baker's yeast.

ROCHESTER, Minn. &mdash Sometimes doctors have to surgically remove a portion, or a person's entire pancreas. Infections and inflammation can shut down the pancreas. The natural result when the pancreas fails is diabetes &mdash often called pancreatogenic diabetes. The Mayo Clinic has been experimenting with pancreatic islets in select patients undergoing partial pancreas removal. Its most recent report on the progress of the procedure has found that the procedure shows promise for reducing the effects of diabetes related to pancreatogenic diabetes.

Higher dietary intake of fiber from grains, cereals, and magnesium, may each be associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a report and analysis in the May 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

All right, it's all over the news today, so men all over the world are wondering if they should father children if they have diabetes. So, let's break this down and interpret it. Scientists have found that sperm from type 1 diabetic men have greater levels of DNA damage than sperm from men who do not have the disease. They warn that such DNA damage might affect a man's fertility.

A few years ago some researchers from Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark had an idea. They suspected that by encouraging the body to use less of the interleukin-1 protein, people with diabetes would improve. Interleukin-1 is a protein that works to increase pain, swelling and fever. They recruited 70 patients with type 2 diabetes to test their theory.

We don't mean to sound all pessimistic or discriminatory when we bring up the topic of belly fat and diabetes. We want to address this in a way that will help you to have a little more power over your health.

A number of American researchers went back through medical and dental journals to see if they could find and document how periodontal treatments helped or did not help people with diabetes. The analysis that they performed involved looking a a few different studies that involved over 450 patients. They found that patients that received periodontal treatments actually reduced their A1C scores by 0.38%.

Ty Arlint remembers how his mother constantly worked to live with her diabetes. He hoped to contribute to curing her diabetes some day. Recently he had a chance to provide her with something just as valuable in life.