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The finding comes from a systematic review of 13 observational studies looking at the link between diabetes and TB over the past four decades.

Community-based health programs aimed at diet, exercise, smoking prevention and other known risk factors for chronic diseases could cut health-care costs in the United States by $16 billion a year, at a cost of 10 dollars per patient/year, a new report says.

Biodel announced that its two pivotal Phase III VIAject(TM) clinical trials are now complete. The full trial results will be released either at Biodel’s poster presentation at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, or at a later appropriate scientific forum.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered diabetes could be a hidden condition for some patients with coronary heart disease.

Losing weight through diet and exercise lowers diabetes risk in men and women, but men may have to work harder for the same benefit, new research suggests.

Results of a meta-analysis indicate that the antiepileptic agent pregabalin is safe and effective for relieving pain in diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).

Compared with open gastric bypass surgery, performing the procedure laparoscopically reduces postoperative complications as well as the need for reoperation and is associated with a shorter hospital stay, new research shows. Nevertheless, laparoscopic gastric bypass does incur higher total costs.

The consumption of a diet containing vegetable oils rich in alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) is associated with significant reductions in the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), a new study has shown.

This week we want to know if you think this will make it easier for patients to get care?

Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, continues to get our patients fit by giving them Lower-body resistance training exercises: Seated leg extensions and standing leg curls.