Hemoglobin A1c levels improved in both the diet and control groups

New targets set for diabetes treatment in Britain’s National Health Service may be too strict to be practical, an article in Friday’s British Medical Journal warns.

Obese diabetic mice treated with an extract of Panax ginseng berries shed weight and demonstrate significant improvement in glucose homeostasis, investigators from the University of Chicago report in the June issue of the journal Diabetes.

Increasing daily aspirin use to 90% of those with Type 2 diabetes could prevent an additional 11,000 MIs and potentially save >8,000 lives.

There are distinct barriers and facilitators in managing patients with type 2 DM.

ABC’s of controlling hypertension in people with diabetes.

Neotame is made by Monsanto, which also makes NutraSweet’s sweetener Equal.

In studies they have found a special type of dendritic cell that kills the T cells and appears to prevent diabetes in mice.

Very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet are popular yet little is known regarding the effects on serum biomarkers for cardiovascular disease (CVD).

But lifestyle modification still needs to be the cornerstone of therapy.