Steve Freed: Let’s start out with a little background about Qsymia and Belviq. What is the FDA allowing you to treat with the drugs? Dr. Timothy Garvey: In 2012, the FDA approved two new weight loss medications. In 2014, another medication was approved. That is three new medications. We hope …

I was at a recent CE program about healthcare costs and when it came to diabetes the speaker stated that it cost U.S. employers over 100 billion dollars a year and at least 20% of that amount was spent on non-medical costs with a lot going to lost productivity. We …

A 55-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes who was being treated with glimiperide had had a difficult time finding a job. She was finally hired into a law firm as a legal secretary. She would be frequently called into meetings at the last minute, often late mornings and afternoons, right …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Pregestational diabetes is the most common medical problem that complicates pregnancy, affecting 1 in 264 births (0.38%) in the UK in 2002–3, with over 25% occurring in women with type 2 diabetes. The Kaiser Permanente database recorded an average rate of 1.3% …

Despite major advances in the treatment of type 1 diabetes over the past 30 years, type 1 men are living approximately 11 fewer years than their non-diabetic peers. For women, the years lost is even higher at 13…. Scottish researchers examined data from a prospective cohort of patients in Scotland …

An examination of 27 years of follow-up data from the EDIC study reveals that intensive glycemic therapy was associated with a modestly lower all-cause mortality rate…. After the DCCT (1983-1993) ended, participants were followed up in a multisite (27 US and Canadian academic clinical centers) observational study (Epidemiology of Diabetes …

Healthy behaviors including weight control, moderate physical activity, and minimizing TV watching can avert up to 73% of CHD cases among women over 20 years… Overall mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States have declined in recent decades, but the rate has plateaued among younger women. …

Using a computer model to analyze data from the 2003-2010 NHANE survey, researchers found that significant cost savings could be made if prediabetes patients made lifestyle changes… The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends combined diet and physical activity promotion programs for people at increased risk of type 2 diabetes, …

The Nordic diet included whole grain products, root vegetables, berries, low-fat dairy products, and three servings of fish per week….

Amending the label for metformin could open up the drug to a million more patients… Researchers from Penn Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College report this week in a published research letter that, many patients with type 2 diabetes in the United States may be discouraged from taking metformin — …