Patients are looking for doctors who will check up on them and offer guidance between office visits according to a new report, “A Fragile Nation in Poor Health,” a look at why patients don’t follow their doctors’ treatment plans and what solutions are available to the healthcare community. Eighty-three percent …

Diabetes drugs with rosiglitazone are now available only through certified mail-order pharmacies. Doctors wishing to prescribe the drugs and patients planning to continue taking them should enroll in GlaxoSmithKline’s Avandia Rosiglitazone Medicines Access Program. As of November 18, Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate), Avandamet (rosiglitazone maleate and metformin hydrochloride), and Avandaryl (rosiglitazone …

Intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus lowers the long-term risk for impaired glomerular filtration rate (GFR).…

Takeda announced that the FDA has assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of January 25, 2012 for the review of its investigational type 2 diabetes therapy alogliptin, and the fixed-dose combination therapy alogliptin/pioglitazone.…

Poor glycemic control, whether too high or too low, is associated with decreased survival in diabetic patients on hemodialysis….

Women who regularly drink sugary beverages may be increasing their cardiovascular risk….

Resveratrol, an ingredient found in red wine, may improve the health of obese men….

A pig’s pancreatic islets were transplanted into a diabetic monkey which was then administered a newly developed immune-regulating antibody. As a result, the monkey’s blood-sugar level was automatically controlled without any rejection, and has been healthy for the last six months….

Commercial disease management models did not reduce hospital admissions or emergency room visits, or result in cost savings in a study of nearly 250,000 Medicare patients.…

An FDA advisory committee has recommended unanimously that the ezetimibe-simvastatin combination pill (Vytorin) be approved for prevention of cardiovascular disease in CKD patients who are not on dialysis.…