Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations on the Rise: Nearly one in five hospitalizations in 2008 were related to diabetes, according to a recent report by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. That means a total of more than 7.7 million hospital stays and $83 million in hospital costs, of which Medicare …

Unpleasant People May Be More Prone to Stroke: People with antagonistic or disagreeable personalities have vascular abnormalities that may make them more prone to strokes and perhaps other cardiovascular events, researchers said. Carotid artery intima-media thickness, which is linked to stroke risk, was significantly greater in individuals who rated low …

Using a sophisticated nanotechnology-based “vaccine,” researchers were able to successfully cure mice with Type 1 diabetes and slow the onset of the disease in mice at risk for the disease…  

HDL-cholesterol concentrations are inversely associated with occurrence of cardiovascular events…

A British meta-analysis found that increasing the daily intake of green leafy vegetables can reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes… 

A Brazilian surgeon has developed a new procedure usinging surgical intervention through “Ileal Transposition” (or small intestinal switch) that can effectively control Type 2 diabetes…

Two strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular events in high-risk patients — use of an angiotensin receptor blocker or a short-acting insulin secretagogue for five years — failed to reduce myocardial infarction or stroke, researchers here reported…  

Gene variants associated with an increased risk for Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis may confer previously unknown benefits to their human carriers. As a result, the human race may have been evolving in the recent past to be more susceptible, rather than less, to some complex diseases…

In Type 1 diabetes, the body relentlessly attacks and destroys its own insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. But a study by Joslin Diabetes Center scientists now has firmly established that beta-cells endure for many decades in a small group of people with the disease — offering clues to potential treatments for …

Generic thiazide-type diuretics are just as good as newer, more expensive antihypertensives, researchers again emphasized with long-term ALLHAT trial results…