Medical Home Products (Pink Sheets: MHPT), is a provider 1 borderline diabetes symptom   of medical self-test kits and diabetics supplies, a release said. The company is based in St. Petersburg and employs six. It was founded two years ago.

The company’s president Paul Mathis, declined to disclose financial details about the transaction or the revenues of Fort Lauderdale-based Strictly Diabetics.

That company was a desirable target because it has Medicaid licenses in 23 states and Medicare licenses around the nation, Mathis said.

“They also have a pretty good client base,” he said.

The deal is the company’s first step in a strategy to grow its 1 borderline diabetes symptom business through a combination of organic expansion and aggressive acquisitions along an established product line and customer base, the company said in a release.

The company’s fulfillment and call center operations, along with its combined purchasing power should provide a significant increase in revenues as well as enable it to achieve cost reductions while increasing margins, the release said.

The total cost of diabetes in the United States is $132 billion with direct medical cost representing $92 billion and indirect cost (disability, work loss, premature mortality) accounting for $40 billion, the company said citing 2002 research by the Lewin Group Inc. 1 borderline diabetes symptom

In a groundbreaking medical development, Japanese 1 borderline diabetes symptom scientists have reversed diabetes in a 27-year-old woman by injecting her with insulin-making cells from her 56-year-old mother.

The advance, which has sparked worldwide interest, was reported Monday in the Lancet, a British medical journal.

Though results have not yet been replicated, the case establishes proof in principle 1 borderline diabetes symptom that insulin-producing cells from living donors may one day become an important treatment for diabetes, a chronic disease that afflicts 18 million Americans.

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“It’s quite exciting,” said Dr. Bob Goldstein, chief scientific officer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

He added a note of caution, however, observing that “this is a case of one” and “we need much more experience before we can draw conclusions” about its significance.

Although many parents 1 borderline diabetes symptom of diabetic kids would want to donate part of their pancreas “tomorrow” if it would help, “this is not ready for use in children,” Goldstein advised.

The Japanese patient, who had diabetes for a dozen years, has been symptom-free for two months after receiving an injection of pancreatic islet cells from her mother Jan. 19 at Kyoto University Hospital, the report said.