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Warning: Diabetes Drug and Blood Thinner Mix Leads to Serious Interaction

University of Southern California study provides evidence of potent drug-to-drug interaction between a commonly used type of blood thinner and certain diabetes drugs.   A blood...

Doctors Overtreating Seniors for Diabetes and Blood Pressure, Says Study

New studies published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggest doctors and patients should work together to scale back certain treatments for diabetes and high blood...

For Type 2 Diabetics, Wine Improves Sugar Control, Cholesterol and Heart Health

Drinking a glass of red wine every day as part of a healthy diet can help patients with type 2 diabetes improve cardiac health...

Skipping Breakfast Can Provoke Hazardous Blood Sugar Spikes in Diabetics

Very little was known regarding the effect of skipping breakfast on the health of diabetics -- until now. Researchers found that people with type...

Diabetics with Poorly Controlled Blood Sugar Have Longer, More Costly Hospital Stays

As more patients are being admitted into U.S. hospitals with diabetes as an underlying condition, studies show that diabetics with poorly controlled blood sugar...

Drinking Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Every Day Linked to Fatty Liver Disease

A daily sugar-sweetened beverage habit may increase the risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Find out which drinks they tested and what they found...

Higher Cardiovascular Death Risk for People with Metabolic Syndrome

About 22.9 percent of adults in the United States have metabolic syndrome and a new study shows that they are more likely to die...

Eating More Protein at Breakfast Can Prevent Blood Sugar Spikes

Type 2 diabetics often assume that their glucose response at one meal will be identical to their responses at other meals, but that really...
protein that helps also hurts wound healing

Protein That Normally Aids Tissue Repair Inhibits Healing When Sugar Levels are High Instead

New study finds that a protein that normally fosters tissue repair instead acts to inhibit healing when sugar levels are high. The role reversal...
Red Wine and Lower Blood Sugar

Reservatrol Discovered to Lower Blood Sugar by Targeting the Gut

Researchers shows that two antidiabetic agents, Metformin and Reservatrol (found in red wine), target the intestine directly, a previously underappreciated organ in diabetes therapy,...

Alert for Lifescan Meter Users: Certain Blood Glucose Test Strips Reporting False Results

GenStrip Blood Glucose Test Strips, which are advertised for use with the LifeScan OneTouch family of glucose meters, may report false results. Find out...
Onion extract, diabetes and cholesterol

Onion Extract Lowers High Blood Glucose and Cholesterol Levels When Combined with Metformin

According to a new study, the extract of onion bulb strongly lowered high blood glucose and total cholesterol levels when given with the antidiabetic...

Diabetics with Cancer: Get Your Act Together or Sugar Levels Will Kill You Before...

Diabetics are at a higher risk of getting cancer and uncontrolled high blood sugar is more likely to kill them and impairs their immune...

Blood Sugar Level Tied to Dementia – Even with Non-Diabetics

A study has found that higher blood sugar levels are associated with higher dementia risk, even among people who do not have diabetes.

Near-Normal Blood Sugar Target Did Not Delay Risk of Organ Damage in People with...

In people with longstanding type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for heart attack and stroke, lowering blood sugar to near-normal levels did not delay the combined risk of diabetic damage to kidneys, eyes, or nerves, but did delay several other signs of diabetic damage.

Chinese Herbal Medicines for Preventing Diabetes in High Risk People

The researchers considered data from 16 clinical trials including 1,391 people who received 15 different herbal formulations. According to their findings, combining herbal medicines with lifestyle changes is twice as effective as lifestyle changes alone at normalising patients' blood sugar levels.