Topic: Diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kidney damage from diabetes has jumped 34 percent in the last two decades, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.That means nearly seven million Americans have diabetic kidney disease, despite increases ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock guitarist Leslie West, who rose to fame in the '70s power trio Mountain, has had his lower right leg amputated in a life-saving operation related to his diabetes, his wife said on Monday.West, 65, underwent the emergency ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court declined to prevent Eli Lilly & Co's diabetes sales force from marketing a potential rival to a drug it already sells with Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofi's candidate drug Lyxumia, or lixisenatide, added to basal insulin, significantly reduced blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients and also led to a loss in weight, data published on Tuesday showed.Lyxumia belongs to the GLP-1 class of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with diabetes may leave the workforce sooner than employees without diabetes -- suggesting, French researchers say, that the common disease could be taking a large economic toll.Among more than 3,000 employees of France's national gas and ...
An anti-depressant and a cholesterol lowering drug, taken together by as many as one million people in the United States, may cause a spike in blood sugar levels, researchers said Wednesday.Paxil and the anti-cholesterol drug Pravachol do not have this effect when ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Teenagers who have irregular periods are more likely to be overweight and obese and to have early warning signs of diabetes and heart disease than those with regular menstrual cycles, a study said.While the link between irregular ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers who have irregular periods are more likely to be overweight and obese and to have early warning signs of diabetes and heart disease than those with regular menstrual cycles, suggests a new study.While the link between ...
British pharmaceuticals group Shire on Wednesday said it had agreed to buy US company and tissue repair specialist Advanced BioHealing for $750 million (526 million euros) in cash.Under the deal, Shire will acquire the US group's skin substitute product Dermagraft, which is ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People with diabetes are at higher risk for certain cancers than those without the blood sugar disease, including colon and pancreatic cancer for men and breast cancer for women, according to a U.S. study.Based on a telephone ...
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