Obese patients with or without diabetes who took a minimum dosage of the appetite-suppressing glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone for at least 20 weeks lost more weight than people in control groups from a review of 25 studies in the British Medical Journal. Researchers also noted improvements in blood pressure and total …

The New York City health department launched a subway advertising campaign to warn people about the health risks of eating supersize portions. The restaurant industry said it is being unfairly attacked, but the department’s Gretchen Van Wye said at-home portions and even plates are larger than they were in decades …

The U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program conducted a clinical trial in 2002 showing that modest weight loss through caloric restriction and increased physical activity reduced the incidence of diabetes in high-risk patients by 58%….

An immune regulator from healthy cord blood stem cells (CB-SCs) can “educate” the T cells of a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D), enabling the pancreas to produce insulin….

Diabetes patients are more susceptible to the development of atherosclerosis than non-diabetics and insulin therapy might help repair atherosclerotic lesions in diabetic patients….

Statin use in postmenopausal women is associated with a significantly increased risk of diabetes mellitus.

According to Dimitrios Pournaras, MD as reported in the BMJ, “Bariatric surgery (gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric banding) leads to complete remission in only about one third of patients with type 2 diabetes, and should be viewed as a means for improving glycemic control, not as a cure.”…

Richard Kahn, PhD, who was the chief scientific and medical officer of the ADA for nearly 25 years stated at a conference that, “Community-based weight-loss programs have not been shown to be effective at reducing the incidence of diabetes, so implementing a national program would likely be money down the …

Tackling depression and diabetes together in primary care is more likely to get both under control than approaching them separately….

Exercise counters adverse CV effects of insulin in overweight/obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Supervised mixed (aerobic and resistance) exercise is effective in improving A1c and cardiovascular disease risk related to insulin treatment in overweight and obese patients with type 2 diabetes….