Lilly and Amylin Agree to End Partnership See this week’s Item #3, Lilly and Amylin Agree to End Diabetes Alliance.

TextID Medical Jewelry Hope Paige Medical has introduced a new line of short message, service-enabled medical jewelry that is designed to quickly provide patients’ medical information via text message. TextID uses SMS technology to relay life-saving information about a patient. Emergency medical personnel will be able to access a patient’s …

In the study, led by Serena Tonstad, African-American participants who followed a vegetarian diet and exercised at least three times a week significantly reduced the risk of diabetes. Vegan African-Americans had a 70% reduced risk of diabetes, while lacto-ovo African-American vegetarians, had a 53% reduced risk of diabetes. In addition, …

Obesity is not just a U.S. issue although Americans are still the fattest, a Gallup poll indicates. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which tracks obesity in America, Britain and Germany monthly, found Americans are in far worse shape than are Britons and Germans. Twenty-five percent of Americans are obese, compared with …

A red wine ingredient may protect people at risk of heart disease and diabetes by changing their metabolism, according to research. In the first study of its kind, scientists analyzed the biological effects of resveratrol supplements in 11 obese men. They found that after just 30 days the men experienced …

Intensive blood glucose control won’t reduce the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes — and tight control using a thiazolidinedione may actually increase the risk….

Insulin delivery with a closed-loop system was at least as effective as continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion in a UK study of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes.…

They announced an agreement to terminate their alliance for exenatide and resolve the outstanding litigation between the companies….

Adipotide basically reduces the blood supply specifically to fat cells, causing them to simply wither away.…

The FDA has ordered that the label for fenofibric acid (Trilipix) be changed to indicate that the lipid-lowering drug has not been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke.…