The Sooner, the Better Results with Metformin: A recent study has revealed that beginning Metformin early in life could increase the success rate of the drug manifold in patients suffering from diabetes. Co-author Gregory A. Nichols believes that starting the drug early preserves the body’s own ability to control blood …

Definitive Link Found between Drinking Soda and Obesity, Diabetes: Many people know that drinking soda is bad for you. At the very least, the extra calories and sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS) don’t do great things for your waistline. Now, new research has shown that drinking soda …

Glycated Hemoglobin Tests See Increasing Use: Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) testing is one of the success stories of point-of-care diagnostics, and an area that will experience higher growth rates than other POC tests as a result of expert recommendations, new cases and booming mail-in test sales, according to the new report …

Beware of Daylight Saving Time: On average, people go to work or school on the first Monday of Daylight Saving Time after sleeping 40 fewer minutes than normal. And recent studies have found there’s a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries also on the first Monday …

Results from the first study that compares failure rates of Metformin in real-world setting are out.

A new drug, eprotirome, has been shown to significantly lower bad cholesterol, triglycerides and Lp(A), without the side effects that statins cause in many people.

Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young….

Hyperglycemia is a major risk factor for both the microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with Type 2 diabetes. This review summarizes the cardiovascular results of large outcomes trials in diabetes and presents new evidence on the role of hyperglycemia, with particular emphasis on postprandial hyperglycemia, in adverse cardiovascular outcomes …

The Senate delayed the effective date of a 21.2% Medicare pay cut for physicians until October 1, 2010.…

Measurements of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) more accurately identify persons at risk for clinical outcomes than the commonly used measurement of fasting glucose, according to a new published study.