A New Aspirin Formulation Easier on Stomach: The main contraindication for aspirin that prevents people from using it are ulcers and GI irritation. A recent clinical trial involving a new drug formulation incorporating aspirin with soy-derived phosphatidylcholine found that the drug combination significantly reduced irritation to the stomach and upper …

Analysis Cautions against Wider Use of Statins: There is not enough evidence to recommend the widespread use of statins in people with no previous history of heart disease, scientists said last week. In a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library journal, researchers said the cholesterol-lowering drugs should be prescribed …

Having both diseases greatly increases the chances of dying….

Portable meters used to gauge blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes gave readings that differed from lab tests by up to 16%….

Consider a GLP-1 plus a long-acting insulin….

One more reason to normalize blood sugars is that diabetes and hyperglycemia are associated with increases in bleeding during hemorrhagic stroke and worse clinical outcomes….

Nearly five million Americans live with heart failure, with as many as 700,000 new cases diagnosed each year. In addition to lifestyle factors, scientists have shown that heart failure has a strong heritable component, but identifying the responsible genes has been a major challenge….

Much research has been carried out on why diabetes patients develop complications. Now researchers are asking the question the other way around. They want to know why some diabetic patients do not develop complications. What is it that protects them?

This review examines current knowledge linking oxidation, inflammatory signaling pathways, and vitamin supplementation or intake to the risk of T2DM….

New study shows a 1 point drop in A1c, and the drug is now available as a generic from Mylan….