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Diabetes > Autoimmune Disease
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Autoimmune Disease Defined
Disorder of the body's immune system in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys body tissue that it believes to be foreign. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease because the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells.
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Roche seeks autoimmune magic bullet in Bay Area
Published September 7, 2008, 9:52 pm, BizJournals
Pharmaceutical giant Roche has gotten the first green light needed to launch a new arthritis drug, a compound that targets a protein implicated in a wide range of autoimmune disorders.
Proteolix takes long view against autoimmune diseases
Published September 7, 2008, 9:50 pm, BizJournals
It’s ambitious enough to develop the next generation of cancer killers. But Proteolix Inc. is stretching to take long-term aim at autoimmune diseases as well.
For type 1 diabetics, ignorance is deadly
Published September 7, 2008, 4:15 am, Honolulu Advertiser
KAPOLEI — Leanna Chew, a math teacher at Island Pacific Academy, could not prick her finger hard enough to draw blood. So after three unsuccessful attempts, little 10-year-old Ella Axelrod finally stuck Chew the same way that Ella jabs herself 10 times a day to test her blood glucose levels.
Family File
Published September 7, 2008, 12:02 am, Poughkeepsie Journal
A new program for teens is being offered through Vassar Brothers Medical Center's Kids with Chronic Illnesses support program.
Riding to fight multiple sclerosis
Published September 6, 2008, 11:29 pm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In the sixth inning of a Milwaukee Brewers game, Daniel Waters' world changed forever. "The entire stadium began...
New local MS centre offers sense of hope
Published September 6, 2008, 8:57 am, The Sudbury Star
Members of the Sudbury chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society intend to use the new MS Centre of Hope as leverage to lobby for an MS clinic in Sudbury. Sudbury is a "hotspot" for the debilitating disease, says the society's Laurel Ireland, and there are no MS clinics [...]
FDA Approves First Hepatitis B Viral Load Test
Published September 6, 2008, 4:16 am, Medical News Today
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Roche COBAS(R) TaqMan(R) HBV Test, the first assay for quantitating Hepatitis B Virus DNA approved in the U.S. The test uses Roche's real-time PCR technology to quantify the amount of Hepatitis B virus DNA in a patient's blood.
North County FYI
Published September 6, 2008, 3:08 am, San Diego Union-Tribune
Active and retired military, fire and law enforcement are invited for free admission to The Wave Waterpark for Appreciation Days today and tomorrow. The park is at 101 Wave Drive, Vista. thewavewaterpark.com. or (760) 726-1340, ext. 1149.
Benefit barbecue for Fowler family
Published September 6, 2008, 2:39 am, The Hendersonville Times-News
Bat Cave Baptist Church and Fruitland Baptist Church will hold a barbecue fundraiser for Cheryl McMurray Fowler Saturday, Sept. 13, at Dollar General Store, U.S. 64E, Fruitland.
BioMS Medical's dirucotide receives fast track designation
Published September 6, 2008, 1:39 am, PharmaBiz
BioMS Medical Corp, a leading developer in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States has granted fast track designation for the company's lead drug, dirucotide (MBP8298), for the treatment of secondary progressive MS (SPMS). Dirucotide (MBP8298) is currently being evaluated in a US pivotal phase-III trial, named ...
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Fri Aug 15
- Kinds of Arthritis: The universal term “art hritisR 21; cites to a grouping of diseases that, in one fashion or additional, aggress the junctions of the torso. These assaults drive the joints to swell and collapse, resultant in pain, puffiness, rigour, tiredness, a...
Wed Aug 13
- Changing Diet Can Help Autoimmune Disease: Getting rid of bread, cutting down on fats and adding fish oil to your diet could help control diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or multiple sclerosis, where the body's immune system fights its own tissues, researchers suggest.
Tue Aug 12
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Natural Treatment: Almost two million people awake in the morning with blood-red, bloated, stiff joints. The pain endures on into the day bringing in it arduous if not inconceivable to take care of the actions of day by day being, or hobbies that build your life full-bod...
Sat Aug 9
Sat Aug 2
- Wired -- Internal Bacterial Imbalance Leads to Asthma: "Rising asthma rates may be partly explained by bacterial imbalances in our guts. Organisms we've had inside us for thousands, even millions of years are vanishing. H. pylori is the best example. And when you have an organism with us for a very long time that disappears, there will be consequences.& quot;
Wed Jul 30
- Pre-eclampsia Linked to Autoimmune Disorders: Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say they are the first to provide pre-clinical evidence that pregnancy-indu ced high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia may be an autoimmune disease.
- Hughes Syndrome Foundation: The good news is that, once diagnosed, Hughes Syndrome is potentially treatable; the bad news is that, as the condition is relatively new, it often goes undetected or misdiagnosed.
- The key to insuring maximum infusion of essential minerals is the process of providing them as "Ionic Minerals"
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