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Heading Off Diabetes' Disability

Posted: Tuesday, July 10, 2012

A study indicates that overweight people with diabetes can improve their ability simply to get around if they can control their weight and be more physically active.

A Common Exercise Lowers Risk for Diabetes by 29 Percent

Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012

This exercise, which just about everyone can do, can lower risk for diabetes and reduce weight gain and improve cardiovascular health....

A New Diabetes Drug Improves Blood Sugar

Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012

Gevokizumab, a new diabetes drug, may improve fluctuations in blood sugar and reduce inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes....

Hormone Discovered That Preserves Insulin Production and Beta Cell Function in Diabetes

Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012

Duke University Medical Center researchers have found protective, anti-diabetic functions for a hormone that, like insulin, is produced by the islet cells of the pancreas....

New Glucose Index Predicts Diabetes Remission after Gastric Bypass

Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2012

Predictive factors for type 2 diabetes remission following gastric bypass include insulin use and preoperative glucose disposition index....

Diabetes Patients' Use of Aspirin May Not Be Effective

Posted: Monday, July 02, 2012

Many patients with type 2 diabetes may be aspirin resistant and a standard aspirin dose may not protect them against blood clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes....

New Research Finds That Not All Calories Are the Same

Posted: Monday, July 02, 2012

The statement that "all foods can be part of a healthful diet as long as you watch calories … is really misleading"....

Sulfonylureas Increase Mortality by 50 Percent

Posted: Sunday, July 01, 2012

Data from a large retrospective cohort study suggested that, diabetic patients treated with three commonly prescribed sulfonylurea drugs had a 50% higher mortality risk compared with patients treated with metformin....

FDA Approves Lorcaserin (Belviq) for Treatment of Obesity

Posted: Sunday, July 01, 2012

First weight loss drug to be approved by the FDA in thirteen years....

Deficiency in Vitamin B12 with Metformin Linked to Neuropathy

Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2012

In patients with type 2 diabetes taking metformin, vitamin B12 deficiency is associated with higher levels of peripheral neuropathy....