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A natural compound found in the body, called nicotinamide mononucleotide, or NMN, is found to help restore normal blood sugar metabolism.…

We need to do a better job. Research by the New England Healthcare Institute shows that patients who don’t take their medications as prescribed, cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $290 billion in avoidable medical spending each year.…

Optimizing weight "should be a priority" in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes….

Physical activity only has a modest effect in lowering chronic disease risk factors.…

Asians may need lower body mass index (BMI) cutpoints for overweight and obesity.…

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath     Mr. XYZ was referred by his GP.

This week we continue our six part series on Incretins with Homerun Slides focused on Sitagliptin….

By Tricia Greaves, President of The Nelson Center Stopping a deadly addiction can give an addict a new lease on life unless he or she neglects to heal the underlying cause of the addiction and instead replaces it with another. The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California reports that …

Heart Rate Monitor Plus App This new iPhone App turns your smart phone, and eventually tablet devices, into a sophisticated medical monitor able to capture and transmit vital physiological data. Worcester Polytechnic Institute reports it has developed the app that can measure not only heart rate, but also heart rhythm, respiration …

A new Swedish study has shown that elderly men in the highest quartile of serum testosterone levels have around a 30 percent lower risk of cardiovascular events over five years compared with men in the lower three quartiles….