Case Studies

A new study may help explain why diets high in the sugar fructose have been linked to insulin resistance, a precursor to Type 2 diabetes.

Researchers at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh claim to have discovered that a simple system of heart monitoring combined with preventative medicine could save thousands of lives.

Denmark’s Novo Nordisk, the world’s biggest maker of insulin, on Friday said it expected to start a Phase III trial for its drug candidate liraglutide in obesity before the end of this year.

Bristol-Myers Squib and AstraZeneca’s experimental diabetes drug Onglyza significantly improves blood sugar control when added to older medicines, researchers said at EASD.

An international study has established a link between type 2 diabetes and advanced breast cancer. It has been found that women who are resistant to insulin, or who are overweight, are 50 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with the cancer, and only when it is in its advanced …

Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first wide-scale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body’s blood-pumping organ.

The debate about ‘how low to go’ is not new and traditionally has been waged between the ‘true believers,’ those with a strong a priori conviction that more aggressive pharmacological treatment will reduce future events, and the ‘therapeutic nihilists,’ those who require unequivocal proof before acceptance. In recent years, the …

The annual number of Americans older than 65 newly diagnosed with diabetes increased by 23 percent between 1994 to 1995 and 2003 to 2004, according to a new report.

Uncontrolled diabetes wreaks havoc on the body, often leading to kidney failure, blindness and death. A new study shows that the nation’s unchecked diabetes epidemic exacts a heavy financial toll as well: $174 billion a year, a 32 percent increase from 2002.

A new Mayo Clinic study found that 40 percent of pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed with diabetes prior to their pancreatic cancer diagnosis.