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Korlym Mifepristone (Korlym™, Corcept Therapeutics Inc.), was approved to manage hyperglycemia in patients with endogenous Cushing’s syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance who are not candidates for surgery or in whom surgical treatment has failed. This cortisol receptor blocker has potent antiprogestational properties and should never be …

With nearly a third of its population considered obese, Memphis is America’s fattest city, says Newsweek. It’s the city that turned barbecue into an art form and bought a special ambulance this March to transport super-sized patients. Memphis’s 29.7% obesity rate barely edged out No. 2, Richmond, Va. (29.4%); San …

Pregabalin (Lyrica) was not effective in reducing neuropathic pain associated with HIV infection or diabetes in two separate trials, the drug’s manufacturer said. Pfizer has announced that the phase III HIV neuropathy study was stopped early, after an interim analysis found no benefit for the drug. The other phase III …

Researchers studied mice with type 2 diabetes to show how diabetes can have an impact on the hippocampus area causing memory loss, and why the consumption of caffeine can stop this loss. The scientists showed that the long-term consumption of caffeine reduced weight gain and high blood sugar levels, as …

In laboratory rat and cell-culture experiments, the scientists found that metformin substantially reduced the effects of …. 

The best diabetes combination to treat kids with diabetes is…. 

Diabetes and a transition from impaired fasting glucose to diabetes were associated with decreased…. 

An experimental therapy that reprograms the immune system then spurs the growth of healthy insulin-producing cells reversed late-stage diabetes in mice…. 

A new treatment for diabetes may have just been identified from the most unlikely source — the basic ingredient of a candy — and because of its beneficial effects it has been dubbed the “Medicinal plant 2012”….