Yearly Archives: 2004

An antidepressant drug and two medications for weight loss can help patients with diabetes achieve statistically significant weight loss over 26 to 52 weeks.

Type 2 diabetics who take two drugs in combination with insulin can effectively regulate their blood-sugar levels without the common side effect of weight gain.

Men with type 2 diabetes who have difficulty achieving an erection could have heart disease and not realize it.

The highly anticipated cookbook from Diabetic Gourmet Magazine, titled "The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 200 Healthy Recipes from Homestyle Favorites to Restaurant Classics," is now available in bookstores throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and England.

Nationwide recall of Quick-set Plus infusion sets because of problems that can interrupt insulin flow to diabetics who use them.

Diabetes mellitus was linked to a 65 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), appearing to affect some aspects of cognitive function differently than others in a new study.

Researchers have identified what they believe is a built-in biological mechanism that prevents kidney damage in the early stages of diabetes.

For those with type 2 diabetes, the most prevalent kind, a person's eating habits, their basic eating practices matter as much or more as medicine for maintaining blood sugar control

Adults and older kids with diabetes who use a pump to deliver insulin have better control of their diabetes and more flexibility during mealtimes than when they relied on daily insulin shots.

ACP: All people with type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease, and all people with diabetes and any other risk for cardiovascular disease, should be taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.

Researchers have established in an animal model that a hormone secreted by fat tissue acts in the brain to reduce body weight.

Pre-diabetes - a condition that raises a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - is far more common in America than previously believed.

When kids with diabetes approach the teenage years, their diabetes management tends to become more challenging. It's even more difficult for economically disadvantaged kids.

A breakfast of Egg McMuffin and hash browns may taste good, but its high-fat, high-carbohydrate content wreaks havoc in the body's blood vessels.

Cinnamon may be more than a spice, it may have a medical application in preventing and combating diabetes.

Patients with diabetes whose glucose is continually monitored after coronary bypass artery graft surgery do not incur higher medical costs despite the additional testing.