Word: insulin
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...understand the latest insights into the disease, it helps to know a little more about two key molecules--glucose and insulin--and the roles they play in the conditions doctors call Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. We'll start with glucose, the sugar molecule that is a major source of fuel for the body. You can get your glucose levels tested at a doctor's office or at home with a device called a glucometer. What you're looking for is a reading measured in milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood (or, on some glucometers, in millimoles...
...Insulin is a hormone made by specialized cells in the pancreas, whose job is to push glucose out of the blood into various cells in the body. Whenever the amount of glucose in the blood starts to rise, which happens just about whenever you eat, the pancreas pumps out more insulin to keep sugar levels stable...
...home he faced rising costs for his diabetic son's insulin. At work he was forced to lay off teachers, policemen and fire fighters in part because of skyrocketing drug prices. So Michael Albano, the colorful mayor of Springfield, Mass., looked north for a solution. Starting in July, Springfield became the first city in the nation to officially encourage its employees to buy prescription drugs from Canada. City workers fax or mail their prescriptions to a company in Canada; the prescriptions are filled there, and the drugs are mailed to the patients' homes. The workers get a reduced copay...
...President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was resolved. Kumaratunga has accused Wickremesinghe of conceding too much in the negotiations with the separatist Tamil Tigers. Sri Lanka: Peace in The Balance Diabetes Hope U.S. Massachusetts General Hospital scientists announced a breakthrough that may lead to a cure for insulin-dependent diabetes. The researchers were able to not only halt, but even reverse, the progress of the disease in diabetic mice by injecting them with spleen cells from healthy mice...
...daily regimen of Sam’s blood checks and insulin injections (up to five a day) are coupled with our need to balancing his diet and exercise: a serious challenge in dealing with a seven-year-old soccer player,” he said...