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...Laboratory measurements show that eating more fruits, vegetables and fiber changes the blood's sensitivity to insulin within two weeks, helping decrease the risk of diabetes almost immediately...
DIABETES DO'S Diabetics have a lot to be mindful of. They need to watch their weight, monitor blood-glucose levels and in some cases inject themselves daily with insulin. Most should also be popping a low-dose aspirin every day or so to ward off heart disease, but they aren't. Only one-quarter of diabetics who should be taking aspirin do so, a study finds...
Kamen is the founder of DEKA Research of Manchester, N.H. and has won numerous prizes and awards for his mechanical contributions to medical science. He invented the portable insulin pump and a wheelchair that can negotiate stairs, sand and gravel...
...Battelle laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, researchers are working on those problems. They are devising painless alternatives to the hypodermic needle, fear of which causes many diabetics, for example, to delay necessary injections of insulin. One such device is the Mosquito, a small disk equipped with a tiny needle that penetrates only seven micrometers into the skin--not deep enough to impinge on nerve endings and cause pain. Attached to a patient's side, the disk allows mobility while it delivers the prescribed dose of drug evenly over a 24-hour period...
...regions of the lungs. Battelle and other companies are designing inhalers that use compressed air and drug powders to push much more of the medication deep enough into the lungs to be effectively absorbed. Among the drugs that researchers hope will be administered with the new inhalers are antibiotics, insulin and interferon. Other new systems enable doctors to apply drugs through the eyes or through the mucous linings of the nose, mouth and vagina...