According to a new study, teammates in a team-based weight loss competition significantly influenced each other’s weight loss, suggesting that shedding pounds can have a ripple effect. Team members not only achieved similar weight loss outcomes, but participants who said their teammates played a large role in their weight loss …

The cost of statins in the US is radically higher than the costs paid for the same brands in the UK. Statin costs were as much as 400% higher in the US than in the UK. Statins are prescribed in far greater numbers in the US. Thirty-three percent of Americans …

Autoantigen treatment of new-onset type 1 diabetes was unsuccessful in preserving pancreatic beta-cell function overall, but the treatment did appear to help in certain prespecified patient subgroups.…

Consumption of a Mediterranean-style diet is associated with a reduced burden of white matter hyperintesity volume, a marker of small vessel damage in the brain.…

A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with type 2 diabetes….

A protein kinase known as ROCK1 can exacerbate an important process called fission in the mitochondria, the power plants of cells, leading to diabetic kidney disease.…

Maintaining or improving current fitness levels, as well as not packing on the fat pounds, are both independently associated with a lower risk of developing hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and hypercholesterolemia in healthy adults.…

Fat people have less than thin people. Older people have less than younger people. Men have less than younger women.…

Only one in three people in the US say their doctor advised them to start exercising or continue doing so during an office visit over the course of a year.…

In Los Angeles and Chicago, programs designed to improve the management of diabetes in underserved populations appear to be working.…