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The controversy about Lantus and cancer continues to heat up. Leading experts are coming forward to share their opinions on the meta-analysis. It is too bad that the lay press will never get these expert opinions to our patients. Last...

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Obesity Accounts for Greatest Jump in Healthcare Costs: 

Diabetes Causes Skin Problems

Anyone who defends the pharmaceutical industry has to be ready to hear, over and over and over, about how much it spends on sales and marketing versus R&D. This is thought to be a telling point about where the priorities really are. I've...

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Diabetics are more prone to oral fungus disease. 

New Link between Elevated Insulin and Breast Cancer Risk: 

Whatever we have been doing to help patients control their blood sugars over the last 100 years has not worked, most patients are still out of control......

Major depression doubles the risk of incident diabetic foot ulcers, according to the results of a large, prospective, population-based cohort study...... 

Elevated insulin levels in the blood appear to raise the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to researchers......

New research has identified a genomic fragment, called a transposon, or "jumping gene," that diminishes the activity of the diabetes risk gene in both mice and humans......

Amylin Pharmaceuticals announced positive results, showing an average 22 pound weight loss from a 28-week study of pramlintide/leptin......

Just 0.1% of people request nutritional information. So having the information listed......

Obese adolescents lost significantly more weight on a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet than on a ......

Lower is not always better for blood pressure targets, according to a Cochrane review that revealed no reduction in morbidity and mortality below ......

A new treatment for Type 2 diabetes may soon be a reality in the U.S. ......