Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company announced today that the FDA has approved more convenient patient storage instructions for BYETTA(R) (exenatide) injection. BYETTA Pens can now be kept at a room temperature not to exceed 77...

Test Your Knowledge Issue 352

Laura Plunkett., BA Psychology recounts her strategies for raising a healthy child and addresses many of the fears and concerns parents often have in her book, The Challenge of Childhood Diabetes. This week she discusses Eating Healthier as a Family:...

Proliferative retinopathy in male and female patients with type 2 diabetes may predict coronary heart disease (CHD), but in women, background retinopathy predicted all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and CHD mortality, according to the results of a study.

The second of a new class of oral antidiabetic drugs is able to lower blood sugar (glucose) in type 2 diabetes as well as Avandia (rosiglitazone) does, but without causing weight gain.

Boric acid vaginal suppositories appear to be more effective than oral fluconazole in the treatment of diabetics with non-albicans Candida glabrata vulvovaginal candidiasis.

Both paclitaxel- and sirolimus-eluting stents show "a trend toward more favorable outcome" in diabetics with occluded coronary arteries compared with bare-metal stents, Dutch investigators reported.

The European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) have together issued new guidelines on the management of diabetes, prediabetes, and cardiovascular disease. All patients with coronary artery disease...

Ninety-nine percent of doctors believe that part of their job is to encourage their patients to live a healthier lifestyle, but only 20% actually do it. Research at the University of Haifa addresses the question: why not?

People looking to lose those extra pounds have been told for decades that dieting together with exercise will bring about the best results. Not so, says new research.

Johns Hopkins brain scientists have hit on how and why some powerful drugs used for treating mental illnesses cause patients to gain so much weight that they often develop life-threatening complications such as diabetes and heart disease.

Putting a nurse in charge of care for people with diabetes sharply reduces their need for urgent and emergency care, and reduces costs, a new study shows.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has designed a classification system for foot infections in patients with diabetes to provide better outcomes for these patients.

Preliminary results from a phase III withdrawal-design trial with lacosamide in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy show that lacosamide was statistically significant over placebo in reducing pain scores. SCHWARZ PHARMA plans for regulatory...

In adults with type 2 diabetes, retinopathy is associated with an increased risk of dying within a given period of time, independent of glucose control, a study shows.

HDL-C and body weight increased and remained elevated for the duration of the study.

Periodontitis -- an infection of the gums that destroys the tissue and bone supporting the teeth -- is associated with the development of kidney disease and end-state renal disease (ESRD) in patients with type 2 diabetes, doctors report.

Merck & Co. announced last week that the FDA has accepted for review the use of Januvia as an adjunct to diet and exercise, in combo with metformin as initial therapy and also an add on to sulfonylureas with and without metformin in combination.