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Neurological evaluation of diabetics indicates that there is relationship between diminished vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression and neuropathy.

Preliminary research indicates that obese patients with type 2 diabetes who had gastric banding surgery lost more weight and had a higher likelihood of diabetes remission compared to patients who used conventional methods for weight loss and diabetes control, according to a new study. 

FDA has received about 30 reports of sudden hearing loss in patients taking a class of erectile dysfunction drugs called PDE5 inhibitors

A Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults has been developed to serve older adults, who have unique dietary needs and less familiarity with computer use vs younger persons.

Smoked cannabis eased pain induced in healthy volunteers, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR.) However, the researchers found that less may be more.

A new study confirms that chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases the already-high risk of serious cardiovascular events in diabetic patients with damage to the large blood vessels and suggests that treatment with the anti-diabetic drug pioglitazone may help to lower this risk.

Older patients treated with the diabetes medications known as thiazolidinediones (which include rosiglitazone) had a significantly increased risk of heart attack, congestive heart failure and death, compared with the use of other hypoglycemic drugs, according to a study.

A meta-analysis of 4 randomized controlled trials of the weight-loss drug rimonabant concurs with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) findings of an increased risk for serious adverse psychiatric effects — depressed mood disorders and anxiety — although depressed mood was an exclusion criteria.

Patients with diabetes and low levels of HDL cholesterol, and high levels of homocysteine who have had a mild to moderate ischemic stroke were twice as likely as their counterparts without these conditions to have poorer cognitive function and greater disability after a stroke.

Hemoglobin variability over time in dialysis patients proved a strong predictor of death from any cause, according to a new study.