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Motor Vehicle Accidents in Patients with Diabetes and Tight Glycemic Control: Uncontrolled diabetes can impair the ability to drive, and lead to serious complications. Careful diabetic control is a standard of good practice, but in this study, patients with the tightest control of glucose levels as measured with HbA1c levels …

The Sooner, the Better Results with Metformin: A recent study has revealed that beginning Metformin early in life could increase the success rate of the drug manifold in patients suffering from diabetes. Co-author Gregory A. Nichols believes that starting the drug early preserves the body’s own ability to control blood …

Definitive Link Found between Drinking Soda and Obesity, Diabetes: Many people know that drinking soda is bad for you. At the very least, the extra calories and sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS) don’t do great things for your waistline. Now, new research has shown that drinking soda …

Your Metformin May Smell Fishy: If your metformin smells like the inside of an inner tube or week old fish, you’re not the only one. If you regularly take metformin, one of the oldest and most respected tools in doctors’ anti-diabetes kits, chances are that you don’t detect the unpleasant …

Of all Americans aged 65 and older, 3 out of 4 have diabetes or pre-diabetes, according to the CDC. Since the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Medicare covers free screening tests for diabetes and pre-diabetes for at-risk seniors. However, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data …

Obesity and Diabetes Rates Raise Concerns: A quarter of all deaths in England over the past three decades had obesity as an underlying cause, according to a new study. Figures published in the European Journal of Public Health indicate that between 1995 and 2006, obesity-related death rates rose by an …

Walnuts Improve Cardiovascular Health for Those with Type 2 Diabetes: According to a new Diabetes Care study, eating 2 ounces of walnuts per day as part of a normal diet may improve cardiovascular health in people with Type 2 diabetes. Previous studies demonstrated the potential benefit of walnuts in promoting …

Blood Glucose Levels Edge Up in Latest Teen Data: Although most U.S. teens have normal blood glucose levels, more than 30% are above normal weight, which has public health officials worried about the future burden of hyperglycemic illness. Among nondiabetic teens who underwent fasting glucose testing, 17% were overweight and …

Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Finds: A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely (before age 55) of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes …

Eye Damage from Diabetes Remains the Leading Cause of Blindness in Adults: Nearly 60% of all diabetes patients can expect to develop diabetic retinopathy within ten years of their diagnosis. Despite major progress in diagnosis and treatment, diabetic retinopathy remains the major cause of blindness in adults under 60 in …