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When given in combination with an energy-restricted diet and exercise prescription, sibutramine does not lead to an additional decrease in body mass index in obese adolescents.

Experts believe that treating wounds with honey has tremendous potential for the approximately 200 million people in the world with diabetes, 15 percent of whom will develop an ulcer, usually because of impaired sensation in their feet.

The risk of heart disease increases in the presence of a common genetic variation carried by a large percentage of Caucasians, according to two reports.

Ronald Evans MD, a researcher at the Salk Institute in California has come up with a new drug that can trick your body into thinking you are exercising, could it be the magic pill we are looking for or another reason to not exercise?

Researchers have identified 10 genetic variants that may make type 2 diabetes more likely and may lead to new treatments for type 2 diabetes.

New research suggests a "missing link" between the pre-diabetes state and the clinical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus and can be explained by the decrease in glucose clearance

Improvements in depressive symptoms don’t lead to better control of glucose levels, according to a new report.

How your food is cooked may be as important to your health as the food itself. Researchers now know more about a new class of toxins that might soon become as important a risk factor for heart disease and metabolic disorders as trans fats.

The medical world is waking up from the “DREAM”? When a major international study – called the DREAM trial – reported last fall that the drug rosiglitazone appeared to prevent diabetes in 60 per cent of a group of people at high risk of developing the disease, it was hailed as …

AII receptor antagonists or ACE inhibitors are least associated with incident diabetes and the risk was highest with diuretics and beta-blockers.