November 2006 - A study published in the journal "Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases" refutes the frequently repeated claims that a comprehensive salt reduction would not produce any overall health benefits, or would even increase diseases and...

November 2006 - Fifty-four million Americans, that's one in six of us, have pre-diabetes and most don't even realize it. Mark Schutta, MD, medical director of the Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center, is urging at-risk patients to be proactive and ask your...

Test Your Knowledge Issue 339

Six per cent of patients with a BMI of more than 30 died in the first year after transplant, compared with three per cent of patients with a BMI of less than 30.

Repeated panic attacks in people with diabetes can lead to poorer control of the illness, more severe health complications, and a reduced quality of life.

A drug commonly used to increase the body's sensitivity to insulin may slow the progression of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

Once daily, oral investigational therapy reduced sustained Moderate vision loss by 40% over three-year period for patients with moderate to severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

While exercise and weight loss are equally effective ways to lose weight, exercising helps to maintain muscles, research finds.

Studies of a rare genetic condition that increases cancer risk have unveiled a potential treatment for metabolic syndrome, and diabetes disorders that afflicts as many as one in every four American adults and puts them at sharply increased risk...

New study shows that you can eat bread and lose weight?? Bread enriched with lupin kernel flour at the expense of wheat flour reduced energy intake and increased the feeling of fullness, which may have important implications for weight management.

Acording to a report in the November issue of Diabetes Care, Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) given orally improves symptoms in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy

This is the first study ever to evaluate WelChol in combination with insulin, and it demonstrated A1C reductions of 0.5%.

A U.S. decision on approving Novartis AG's key diabetes drug Galvus has been delayed by three months after the firm asked the Food and Drug Administration to consider new clinical trials data.

Fasting glucose (FG) levels increase in older adults with hypertension regardless of whether they are treated with chlorthalidone, amlodipine, or lisinopril.

With one in two having diabetes, it could wipe out Maori and Polynesian Islanders by the end of the century, according to an international expert in the disease.

Accomplia is now approved in Europe and Mexico, US next?

Weight loss from exercise or calorie restriction improved glucose tolerance in nonobese, healthy men and women, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, even after three plus years.