Stem-cell treatment for T1DM brings ‘real hope’ as patients achieve insulin independence
Ten people with type 1 diabetes have been “cured” in a phase II trial of a stem-cell treatment. A year after a one-time infusion to…
Tag: Endocrinology – Diabetes
New gestational diabetes guidelines set higher glucose thresholds for diagnosis
The first update to gestational diabetes guidelines in a decade has raised the glucose thresholds for diagnosis, aiming to reduce over-medicalisation for women with low-risk…
Daily pill looming for GLP-1 receptor agonists? Eli Lilly drafting TGA application
Eli Lilly is preparing a TGA application for an oral GLP-1 receptor agonist to treat early diabetes following publication of phase III trial results. The…
A rapid deterioration follows DKA discharge
Nikki, a slightly built 30-year-old woman with a 10-year history of type 1 diabetes, is brought to ED by ambulance with an altered level of…
What is the new ‘type 5 diabetes’ and did a British doctor in Jamaica predict it in 1955?
How many types of diabetes do you know? The International Diabetes Federation has just recognised type 5 diabetes: a form of severe insulin-deficient diabetes where long-term nutrient deficiencies…
‘Shrunken pore syndrome’ flags mortality risk in T2DM: Aussie study
A low ratio of cystatin C–based eGFR to creatinine-based eGFR in people with type 2 diabetes is linked to mortality regardless of conventional markers of…
Hundreds of doctors sent warnings for prescribing semaglutide on PBS to patients without diabetes
Health officials have started a mass letter mail-out to doctors they suspect are using the PBS to prescribe subsidised semaglutide to patients without diabetes. Without…
Certain diabetes drugs cut risk of COPD exacerbations: study
Patients with type 2 diabetes and COPD are up to 20% less likely to experience respiratory exacerbations when treated with SGLT-2 inhibitors or GLP-1 receptor…
GLP-1 RAs linked to eye complications in JAMA case series
A case series has rekindled concerns about potential eye-related complications associated with semaglutide and tirzepatide. Published in JAMA Ophthalmology, it documents instances of serious ophthalmic…
‘Medicine is witchcraft’: Parents who believed God would cure daughter’s diabetes found guilty of manslaughter
All 14 members of a fringe religious group have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old who died after her insulin was withheld.…
