Diabetes :
Do Your Habits Invite Diabetes?
American adults say that getting a chronic disease would be worse than getting a divorce or losing a job, yet they knowingly engage in behavior...
FDA Panel Weighs New Diabetes Drugs
An FDA advisory panel is considering two new drugs to improve blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes. Those drugs, named Onglyza (saxagliptin) and liraglutide, treat high...
Stem Cells Promising for Type 1 Diabetes
More than half of the newly diagnosed patients with type 1 diabetes who got an experimental treatment for the disease did not need insulin...
Healthy Changes Can Prevent Diabetes
Nine out of 10 new type 2 diabetes cases in older adults could be prevented through healthy lifestyle changes, according to a new study. The results show a combination...
New Diabetes Drug Cycloset Approved
The FDA has approved a new drug, called Cycloset, to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes, in addition to diet and exercise. Cycloset takes a new approach to...
Costs Are High From Undiagnosed Diabetes
Millions of Americans who have diabetes don’t even know they have the disease, but they run up an estimated $18 billion bill in health care costs annually, a new study shows. Scientists used data from...
Drug Cuts Amputation Risk in Diabetes
Treating type 2 diabetes patients with a cholesterol-lowering drug called fenofibrate cuts the risk of a first diabetes-related limb amputation by 36%, according...
