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Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report… 

Seven of 10 patients in trial who underwent microvascular decompression surgery experience significant improvement in glucose control…. 

Doctors may have identified a new and simple way to predict risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. The result of a simple blood test may be the earliest alert to doctors and patients to implement lifestyle changes that may delay or prevent the onset of the disease….

Combined training does not provide additional benefits or show improvements in fitness in younger subjects compared with aerobic and resistance training alone. In older subjects, there was a trend to greater aerobic fitness gains with aerobic + resistance versus aerobic alone….

The use of calcium supplements without coadministered vitamin D is associated with an increased risk of MI. The finding, from a meta-analysis encompassing 15 randomized trials and up to 11,921 participants, warrants a reassessment of the role of calcium supplements in the management of osteoporosis, researchers report…

Aggressive glucose control does not improve survival in patients with diabetes and renal failure, according to a study. The results suggest that physicians should individualize hemoglobin (Hb) A1c targets for these patients and not rely on recommendations based on studies in the general population…

New research has found that 5-mm needles effectively deliver insulin into subcutaneous fat in both adults and children. Compared with intramuscular injections of insulin, injections into the subcutaneous fat are associated with less variability in glycemic control as well as a lower risk for hypoglycemia…   

Hospitals spent $83 billion in 2008 caring for people with diabetes with one out of every five hospitalizations being a person that has diabetes. This was according to a report prepared by the Healthcare Research and Quality Agency (AHRQ)…

Consumers’ growing demand for nutritional guidance spurred the creation of NuVal. NuVal’s labeling system evaluates foods based upon more than 30 nutritional attributes, including positive ones such as fiber and negative ones such as saturated fat. It uses a mathematical formula to assign products a score on a scale of …

by Isaak Smith, PharmD Candidate, University of Florida College of Pharmacy Contrave (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR) is an investigational product from Orexigen, a company that specializes in the treatment of obesity. Contrave has just completed phase-3 trials (COR-1, COR-2, COR-BMOD, and COR-diabetes) and Orexigen has submitted an NDA to the FDA …