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DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets at 6 p.m. Monday in POB Building 300, Gadsden Regional Medical Center campus.

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has initiated a Phase 1 clinical study for ISIS-PTP1BRx, an antisense drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes targeting protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B, PTP-1B. Â ISIS-PTP1BRx is designed to increase the body's sensitivity to the natural hormone insulin, resulting in better glucose control for patients with type 2 diabetes. Â Because of its ...

DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets at 6 p.m. Monday in POB Building 300, Gadsden Regional Medical Center campus.

A growing number of top nutritional scientists are pointing to excessive carbohydrates, rather than fat, as the source of America's dietary woes. As reported in the Los Angeles Times on December 20, some researchers are saying that cutting carbohydrates is the key to reversing obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

A team of Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) physicians led by neurosurgical pioneer Peter Jannetta, MD, has made an important new discovery linking the central nervous system to the onset and progression of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Reporting in the journal Surgical Neurology International, Dr...