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A new study reveals low-calorie foods and drinks made to taste like high-calorie foods and drinks may actually lead to overeating and obesity. If you hope to curb the obesity epidemic in your children, don’t feed them diet foods or drinks.

A type 2 diabetes drug taken orally and in widespread use for more than a decade has been found to have distinct advantages over nine other, mostly newer medications used to control the chronic disease, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins.

Which drugs are the ones to sustain good control, the longest?

Where most other diabetes medications cause weight gain, metformin can cause weight reduction.

Takeda Responds to the FDA Advisory Committee Recommendation: With all the publicity about TZD’s and the cardiovascular ischemic/thrombotic risks the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committees to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made some blanket statements about all drugs in the class. Takeda makers of Actos, responded …

I recently received a book for review. Living With Diabetes: A Guide For Patients and Parents by James W Reed, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.A.C.E.; and Agiua Heath, M.D.. I had my Dr. of Pharmacy candidate James Wengard review the book. James can offer great feedback as he just spent the last …

FDA panel says Avandia offers benefits to people with type 2 disease, but…..

Statins used in patients with extremely low LDL cholesterol levels are safe and may lead to improved survival, according to the results of a new study. This survival benefit of a reduced mortality of 42% was observed across multiple subgroups, including patients with LDL cholesterol levels

Dr. Stephen Covey, author of the bestselling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, and an internationally respected leadership authority, has teamed up with The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and Bayer Diabetes Care to introduce a unique patient education tool, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®. …

Obesity is more than twice as likely to be treated seriously if physicians jot the formal diagnosis down in medical records — a relatively uncommon act by clinicians.