Topic: Type 2 Diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults may be able to reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes as they age simply by setting diet and exercise goals and sticking to those goals, study findings hint. Older men and women who self-monitored ...
Medical researchers on Sunday said they had used over-the-counter allergy drugs to ease Type 2 diabetes in obese mice, in a study that strengthens theories that inflammation plays a role in this disorder. Harvard Medical School biochemists Guo-Ping Shi and Jian Liu ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Over-the-counter allergy and asthma drugs helped obese, diabetic mice lose weight and control their blood sugar, researchers reported on Monday. Three other studies strongly linked obesity and type-2 diabetes to a dysfunctional immune system, and researchers said these ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday. Obesity rates did not decrease in ...
Diabetes mellitus is a manifestation of a dysfunctional metabolism and is commonly attributed to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels. This disease often leads to several complications when diagnosis come after its onset. A ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes are more likely to have structural and functional cardiac abnormalities than are their healthy peers or even girls with type 1 diabetes, according to a study in of Diabetes Care. ...
Old Parkinson's drug tweaked into a diabetes treatment to try to reset metabolismPeople with Type 2 diabetes may soon get a very different treatment approach: A drug that helps control blood sugar via the brain — an idea sparked, surprisingly, by the ...
Typical monthly costs for medicines and testing supplies to control diabetes, for two common categories of patients who don't have other health problems. Prices are the full cost, and would be lower for someone with insurance. At bottom are initial costs for ...
The Average Family in the US - Childhood Obesity a Growing Issue By Fiona Applebee What is a traditional average American family? It used to be described as a "married couple with 2.4 kids and a dog living in a house with ...
HEALTHBEAT: Scientists try to unravel why diabetes increases risk of Alzheimer's diseaseYou've heard that diabetes hurts your heart, your eyes, your kidneys. New research indicates a more ominous link: That diabetes increases the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease and may speed dementia ...
