Exenatide added to thiazolidinediones improved glycemic control and reduced body weight in some patients with type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Results from a Phase 2A study showed that the data lends support to the concept that abnormalities in cortisol activity may play an important role in the causation of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, a cluster of co-morbidities commonly associated with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance.

Results showed that Emisphere’s eligen(R) technology can orally deliver the incretin hormones GLP-1 and PYY. The oral administration of both peptides induced a rapid and dose-dependent, statistically significant increase in plasma drug concentrations at all doses tested versus placebo.

A Melbourne 11-year old schoolboy is the first person in the world to take a pioneering vaccine against diabetes.

Women who take low to moderate doses of aspirin have a reduced risk of death from any cause, and especially heart disease–related deaths, according to a new report.

Researchers have now carefully crafted a combination therapy that reverses recent-onset type 1 diabetes in 2 animal models of disease.

People with high cholesterol levels and taking statins reduced their frequency of major cardiac events by about 20 per cent when supplemented with the omega-3 of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), researchers have reported.

A peptide developed by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College may expand the availability and durability of islet cell transplant for patients with type-1 diabetes.

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