Topic: Type 2 Diabetes
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Strict lowering of blood sugar in older diabetics preserved some of their brain volume, but it did nothing to slow memory loss, researchers said on Tuesday.The findings are the latest from the large U.S.-backed study to show that aggressively ...
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers rejected a new type of diabetes pill from AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb over concerns about liver and cancer risks.A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 9-6 on Tuesday against recommending approval of the drug, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with higher levels of pesticides and other pollutants in their blood may be more likely to get type 2 diabetes, suggests a new study of elderly Swedes.The findings add to a growing body of evidence that ...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Obesity and longevity have helped make diabetes an epidemic in much of the world, and drugmakers are jockeying to make sure their medicines are used early and often.Companies including Sanofi and Eli Lilly aim to introduce new classes ...
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 ...
A review of published studies in the past 40 years has shown a higher risk of diabetes, heart problems and early death among people who watch lots of television, US researchers said Tuesday.The results of the meta-analysis performed by scientists at the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Type 2 diabetes is eight and a half times more common among children in the Unites States treated with growth hormone than among kids who are not on the hormone treatment, a new study shows.The researchers, based ...
On Tonga's supermarket shelves, huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts long ago -- contributing to an obesity epidemic that sees the Pacific region ranked as the fattest in the world.Meat ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A diabetes expert group backed the use of weight-loss surgery on Monday for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in severely obese patients.According to a statement from the International Diabetes Federation, there is increasing evidence that the health of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testosterone treatment appears to improve the underlying problem in some men with type 2 diabetes, according to a study funded by UK drugmaker ProStrakan.The problem -- called "insulin resistance" -- is that the body doesn't know how ...
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