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Poor drug adherence in patients with diabetes continues to plague clinicians, but new tools have been created to solve this problem by improving decision making. Physicians must change the nature of their conversations to ensure that the medication choices are consistent with the evidence as well as the values and …

Boston University report results from a study demonstrating that omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids are precursors to a powerful new genus of anti-inflammatory and pro-resolution mediators, coined ‘resolvins’ and ‘protectins’.

AHA statement urges clinicians to think beyond clinical treatment and prevention and to emphasize nutrition and physical activity, life-style modification.

According to new findings recently published, among older men and women, those with type 2 diabetes have lower baseline general cognition scores and experience a steeper cognitive decline subsequently.

Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells.

Diabetes sufferers may soon draw breath to take new treatment and one day be inhaling an insulin solution to manage the condition.

Neonatal diabetes is an extremely rare condition, and infants who suffer from it typically require insulin injections to survive. Treating these infants with an oral medication — which dramatically improves their quality of life — has been successful in only a handful of children worldwide.

Saturday can be the worst enemy for our waistlines, according to researchers at the School of Medicine. They found that study subjects on strict diet and exercise programs tend to lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends than during the week.

A compound in red wine being developed by Sirtris a GlaxoSmithKline company, may ward off many of the signs of ageing, including cardiovascular disease, cataracts and decreased bone density, but does not seem to extend the lifespan, according to a new study.

According to a report by Korean researchers that will appear in the September issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, in healthy men of normal weight, relatively small weight gain can adversely affect glomerular filtration rate, an indicator of chronic kidney disease (CKD).