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Pilot study supports adolescent diabetes patients through personalized text messages…. 

Aggressive blood sugar control does not improve survival in diabetic patients with kidney failure, according to a study… 

MannKind Corporation announced that it has submitted, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted, MannKind’s resubmission of its New Drug Application (NDA) for AFREZZA™ (insulin human [rDNA origin]) and classified it as a Class 2 resubmission. With the Class 2 designation, the FDA set an action date …

The results support a strategy for CPR performed by laypersons that emphasizes chest compression and minimizes the role of rescue breathing…  

In this study, the research team inhibited atherosclerosis by interfering with production of a substance called fatty acid synthase…

According to published research, genes are interacting with diet, rather than diet alone and are the main causes of variation in metabolic traits, such as body weight….

By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Let’s start this week’s article off with a little quiz. Please answer the following questions honestly:

The human skeleton plays an important role in regulating blood sugar and researchers, led by Columbia University Medical Center, have further illuminated how bone controls this process…. 

Middle-aged adults born at the height of China’s famine in the 1950’s and 1960’s may have a greater risk of high blood sugar than those born just a few years earlier or later…. 

Approximately half of young adults have at least one cardiovascular disease risk factor, such as a family history of disease, smoking, hypertension, or obesity, according to the results of a new study….