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Updates on Diabetes related information.

• New therapeutic options for diabetes-related tissue injury (EurekAlert!)
  
  Toronto, ON, Canada – Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by altered glucose tolerance and impaired lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, and is associated with a number of complications directly resulting from hyperglycemiainduced inflammation.
  


• F.D.A. Votes: Tougher Safety Standards for Diabetes Drugs (KAUZ Wichita Falls)
  
  Diabetes drug makers will soon face tougher safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions.
  


• FDA Panel Calls for More Testing of Diabetes Drugs (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
  
  WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Drugs designed to control type 2 diabetes should be subjected to more thorough safety reviews to ensure they don't raise the risk of heart problems, U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers said Wednesday.
  


• Panel urges stricter diabetes drug testing (CNN.com)
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diabetes drugs would be subject to more stringent safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions of dollars, under recommendations made Wednesday by a government panel.
  


• Trying to Solve the Diabetes Mystery (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
  
  A staggering 24 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, nad another 57 million are at risk for developing the disease. But as FOX 5's Allison Seymour explains, there's one type of diabetes that's so difficult to diagnose, some doctors haven't even heard of it.
  


• Inland officials say diabetes rates up (The Press-Enterprise)
  
  Inland public health officials say diabetes continues to spread as the nation's leading public health organization announced last week that nearly 24 million people have the potentially deadly disease.
  


• Sector Snap: Diabetes drug developers (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
  
  Proposals for tougher heart-risk studies on new Type 2 diabetes drugs weighed heavy on shares of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Novo Nordisk AS Thursday, since stricter regulations could mean longer, more costly clinical trials.
  


• New Spanish Consumer Guide Compares Diabetes Meds (MedicineNet.com)
  
  Title: New Spanish Consumer Guide Compares Diabetes Meds Category: Health News Created: 7/3/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/3/2008
  


• FDA Panel Calls for More Testing of Diabetes Drugs (MedicineNet.com)
  
  Title: FDA Panel Calls for More Testing of Diabetes Drugs Category: Health News Created: 7/3/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/3/2008
  


• EUR HEALTH REPORT: Diabetes Striking More and More Americans, Especially Blacks (Eurweb)
  
  The percentage of Americans suffering from diabetes is on the rise and the Black and the poor are being especially had hit. That is a summary of a report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.