Think of it as product guarantees by the drug industry. This new contract promotes medication adherence to better control blood sugar levels for people with Type 2 diabetes…

Women who reported a lifetime history of more than a year of breast-feeding were 20 percent less likely to have diabetes, 12 percent less likely to have hypertension, 19 percent less likely to have high cholesterol and 9 percent less likely to have had a heart attack or a stroke…

A THIRD of all Type 1 diabetics were initially misdiagnosed as having the more common Type 2 or some other illness, a study shows, and it’s a mistake that can be deadly…

Fructose appears to pose more problems with insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and visceral adipose tissue in heavy patients than its companion sugar glucose…

Metformin decreases the rate of conversion from prediabetes to diabetes…

Subjects who preferred very well done steak were nearly 60 percent as likely to get pancreatic cancer as those who ate steak less well done or did not eat meat at all…

Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, adding to growing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids improve cardiac health…

With Lilly/Amylin’s submission of their once a week Byetta, another company, Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc., announces completion of enrollment of ITCA 650 phase 1b study for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes with their once a year dosing of Byetta…

Plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) values are associated with mortality risk in patients with Type 2 diabetes, but are no more useful than traditional risk factors for predicting 5-year mortality in this population…

The ability to identify major fetal anomalies by ultrasonography is reduced in pregnant women who are obese or diabetic, according to researchers…