Once-daily liraglutide slightly outperformed once-weekly albiglutide in a head-to-head trial in adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, researchers reported in the April issue of the Lancet...
In patents with type 2 diabetes, weekly injections with exenatide controlled hemoglobin A1c levels more effectively than did daily glargine over a 3-year period, investigators reported...
HYATTSVILLE, MD. – Inhaled insulin will probably become available as a treatment option again, with a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel’s recommendation to approve an orally administered...
WASHINGTON – Bariatric surgery combined with intensive medical therapy had a significantly greater impact on glycemic control, compared with medical therapy alone, in a <link...
WASHINGTON – Bariatric surgery has the greatest amount of data demonstrating its efficacy in reducing the comorbidities of obesity, as well as providing a long-term solution to the disease itself,...
WASHINGTON – It’s not people who’ve changed over the last 3 decades, but the environment around them that has brought on the obesity crisis, according to the deputy commissioner of the New York City...
WASHINGTON – Young children who are overweight are four times more likely to become obese as they age. Is this a sign that we are fated from youth to be a burden on the health care system, or are...
Adding hemoglobin A1c level to traditional cardiovascular risk factors doesn’t improve the prediction of incident cardiovascular disease among middle-age and older adults who don’t have...
Frequent consumption of fried foods may exacerbate a genetic predisposition to obesity, according to results from a large cohort study that found a significant interaction between fried food...
DENVER – Move over, gauze, bandages, and moist wound-healing techniques. Nanomaterials are making significant inroads in wound regeneration.
Dr. Adam Friedman, director of dermatologic research at...