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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention has produced an animated video series to encourage Native American children to be active and eat right to reduce their risk of developing diabetes.
 
The series of four videos are based on the four Eagle Books written by Georgia Peres of Nambe Pueblo and illustrated by Partick [...]

Animas Corporation has issued an urgent recall of battery caps used with the following insulin pump products:

All Animas® 2020 Insulin Pumps shipped between June 16, 2008 through July 19, 2008 
All Animas® IR 1200 and IR 1250 Insulin Pumps shipped between June 16, 2008 through August 1, 2008 
All OneTouch® PingTM Glucose Management Systems shipped prior to August [...]

The maker of ReliOn insulin syringes is recalling one lot of its sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed needles due to possible mislabeling that may lead to patients receiving an overdose of as much as 2.5 times the intended dose, the U.S. Food and Drug Agency reports.
Here is the FDA alert:
FDA Reports Nationwide [...]

A conference held this July in Seattle on the ethics of genetic testing of newborns and children is now available online at UWTV’s website.
The 2008 Pediatric Bioethics Conference brought together some of the nation’s top ethicists to talk about the controversies involved in testing newborns and children for genetic conditions even when there might be [...]

In patients with type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile-onset diabetes, tight control of blood sugars with insulin has been shown in clinical trials to reduce the risk of blindness, vascular disease and kidney problems that commonly develop with diabetes.
These findings have led scientists to think that tight control of blood sugars would also reduce the [...]

More U.S. children are taking prescription drugs for the treatment of asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and other chronic diseases, according to a new study.
The study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, looked at data from Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits management company that supplies prescription drugs to more [...]

Hoping to encourage patients to participate in clinical trials, the American Diabetes Association, the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association and the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research are holding a conference about research being conducted in the Seattle area.
The conference will include talks by local scientists as well as patients who have volunteered for research studies.
The [...]

A panel of experts convened by the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes  has “unanimously advised against using” the diabetes drug Avandia.
The recommendation appears in updated guidelines which have been published online and will be appear in print in the journal Diabetes Care in its January 2009 issue.
Avandia, whose [...]