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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.

A new pizza dough mixture which incorporates cholesterol-lowering plant sterols is set to further expand the market for functional snack foods.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers finds no evidence to support the widely held view that the “thrifty genotype” theory explains racial differences in the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Poor mood may lead to less exercise and worsening diet and depression appears to raise the odds for diabetes in older people, researchers report.

A high titer of autoantibodies to GAD identifies a specific phenotype of adult-onset autoimmune diabetes.

Resistance training may not only help to build muscle in older people, it may also be warding off type 2 diabetes, a new study demonstrates.

Fully half of U.S. patients hospitalized for coronary artery disease now have an LDL cholesterol level of 100 mg/dL or less on admission.

The safety of inhaled insulin is holding up at 2 years in an ongoing study, with adverse pulmonary effects being small, occurring early, and proving reversible on cessation of the drug