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Valsartan treatment increased glucose-stimulated insulin release and insulin sensitivity in normotensive subjects with IGM….

The effectiveness of KI as a specific blocker of thyroid radioiodine uptake is well established. When administered in the recommended dose, KI is effective in reducing the risk of thyroid cancer in individuals or populations at risk for inhalation or ingestion of radio iodines. KI floods the thyroid with non-radioactive iodine …

Patients headed toward blindness because of diabetic macular edema showed substantial gains in visual acuity after two years of treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor drug ranibizumab (Lucentis), its manufacturer said….

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive results from a mid-stage study of a once-monthly subcutaneous injection of exenatide for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes….

Which test is the most accurate?…

Excess mortality seen with ultra-tight glucose control in high-risk patients with established Type 2 diabetes persisted despite termination of that arm of the study, researchers warned in mid-term reporting from the ACCORD study….

Lower potassium levels in the blood may help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes as whites….

Diabetes not only doubles vascular death risk but also substantially raises risk of death from nonvascular causes, including cancer and infectious disease, researchers found….

“Those who had endurance exercise training three times a week looked as young as healthy mice while their sedentary siblings were balding, graying, physically inactive, socially isolated, and less fertile….”

UK physicians have been told to review all of their patients with diabetes to identify the one in 20 patients that research suggests may have been misdiagnosed or incorrectly classified with the disease….