Topic: Europe
Lindsey KonkelNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who live in areas with high levels of traffic-related air pollution may face a slightly increased risk of developing diabetes, Danish researchers conclude in a new study.They found that people living in urban areas with ...
Hundreds and thousands of peoples with diabetes, including young people, could face severe complications and "substantial" hospital care in the future, an NHS report said on Wednesday.Around 800,000 people have dangerously high blood sugar levels which could lead to serious problems, including ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with diabetes are urged to always wash their hands before testing their blood sugar. But if soap and water are nowhere to be found, using the "second drop" of blood may be OK, a new study ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors know that diabetics have a higher than normal risk of dying of heart attacks or strokes, but new research on Wednesday showed that having diabetes also ups the risk of dying from many cancers and other diseases.The findings ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Representatives of French diabetes sufferers and consumers demanded a government crackdown on the pharmaceuticals industry on Thursday as anger snowballed over a weight-control pill suspected of killing more than 500 people.The French Diabetics Association teamed up with the national ...
Although Roche did not mention other reasons, the drugmaker has experienced several setbacks, including a decline in demand for Tamiflu; the unexpected FDA rejection of its T-DM1 biologic for advanced breast cancer; an FDA panel that voted to rescind a breast cancer ...
France's government Tuesday warned patients to see their doctor if they took a diabetes drug that is believed to have killed 500 people over three decades before it was banned a year ago.The alert targets Mediator, a drug for overweight people with ...
French health officials said Tuesday the now-banned diabetes and weight loss drug Mediator may have been linked to the deaths of about 500 people in the 33 years it was on the market.France's health products safety agency has advised those who used ...
Known by the more common name " A native plant to eastern Europe and some parts of Asia, fenugreek is now cultivated in areas all over the world for its leaves and seeds -- with the seeds more commonly used for a ...