Treatments for Diabetes
Follow the links below to find information about the different forms of treatment for diabetes. You may also wish to contact Diabetes Australia - Victoria, the Australian Diabetes Council or Diabetes Australia in your state or territory.
For information specifically about insulin, follow the link to the specific HealthInsite topic page below .
Reviewed January 2012
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Links to information on the benefits and role of insulin, especially the role of insulin in the treatment of diabetes.
59 Resources Found
| Title: | Information sheets about diabetes |
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| Publisher: | Australian Diabetes Council |
| Description: | Information sheets or fact sheets on up to forty aspects of diabetes management. |
| Title: | Diabetes and coeliac disease |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | Information about living with diabetes and coeliac disease. |
| Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Title: | Diabetes - issues for children and teenagers |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Children or teenagers who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes may have a range of concerns. These include dealing with their own emotional reactions and those of others, going back to school and negotiating sex, drinking alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Newly diagnosed |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | Information and links for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Pioglitazone and risk of bladder cancer |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Editorial Team |
| Description: | The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is advising health professionals and consumers that use of the diabetes medicine, pioglitazone, for more than a year may be associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Diabetes: tablets for type 2 diabetes - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Tablets used to treat Type 2 diabetes are known as oral hypoglycaemics or antihyperglycaemics. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Saxagliptin (Onglyza) for type 2 diabetes |
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| Publisher: | National Prescribing Service |
| Description: | Saxagliptin (Onglyza) is a medicine to help control blood glucose in type 2 diabetes. Find out who can take it, how it fits with other diabetes medicines and its side effects. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Computer-assisted versus oral-and-written dietary history taking for diabetes mellitus |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People with diabetes need to adjust their diet in order to control their blood sugar levels and avoid complications. Healthcare professionals often take dietary histories from patients to help them monitor their dietary intake and provide them with adv... |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | New drugs - Saxagliptin |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | Some of the views expressed in the following notes on newly approved products should be regarded as tentative, as there may have been limited published data and little experience in Australia of their safety or efficacy. |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Interventions for latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA) in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | LADA is a condition that at diagnosis looks like type 2 diabetes (non-insulin requiring diabetes mellitus) but actually is a type 1 diabetes, where the patient will become insulin requiring. In the UK approximately 3.6% of people who look like they have... |
| Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Title: | Exenatide (Byetta) for type 2 diabetes |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | National Prescribing Service |
| Description: | Information on exenatide (Byetta) for type 2 diabetes |
| Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Title: | Diabetes services |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute |
| Description: | The Baker IDI diabetes clinic provides the highest quality medical care and support services for the management of diabetes and its complications. We are committed to delivering excellence in patient care offering a highly integrated team of qualified and experienced health professionals with direct links to the latest diabetes clinical research. |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Diabetes - managing diabetes in childhood |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Managing diabetes is more than just keeping blood glucose levels right. The aim is to make sure that a child or young person can do the things that others of their age can do. |
| Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Title: | Rosiglitazone (Avandia/Avandamet) |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing |
| Description: | The TGA is aware of recent regulatory decisions by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the status of rosglitazone (Avandia and Avandamet) |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | When you are unwell |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | What to do when you are unwell and have type 2 diabetes. Preparing for sick days. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Medication and insulin |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | Understanding medication and insulin for type 2 diabetes. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Physical activity |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | The importance of staying physically active when you have type 2 diabetes. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Pregnancy |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | Pregnancy and pre-existing diabetes. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Balancing blood glucose |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | Information about balancing blood glucose to control diabetes. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Day surgery |
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| Publisher: | Diabetes Australia - Vic (DA - Vic) |
| Description: | Issues relating to day surgery and diabetes. Planning for day surgery. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
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