Excess intake of sugar in the diet significantly raises the risk of cardiovascular mortality, independently of other risk factors, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition...
Neither intensive blood pressure control nor intensive lipid management slowed cognitive decline in adults with long-standing type 2 diabetes.
Additionally, after 40 months, patients in the ACCORD...
The Food and Drug Administration is reassessing the cardiovascular safety of approved testosterone treatments and urged physicians and patients to report side effects.
Two recent observational...
The Food and Drug Administration is reassessing the cardiovascular safety of approved testosterone treatments and urged physicians and patients to report side effects.
Two recent observational...
SNOWMASS, COLO. – A recent randomized trial provides physicians with important new guidance on how to manage antithrombotic therapy in patients requiring oral anticoagulation who develop an acute...
When the Food and Drug Administration in January granted marketing approval to a second transcatheter aortic valve replacement system for inoperable patients with aortic stenosis, the CoreValve...
The controversial hypertension-management guidelines released by the former JNC 8 panel in December was not the group’s last word. There was a minority report, too, published almost a month later in...
Total United States health care costs could be lowered by billions of dollars per year if evidence-based guidelines for follow-up patient visits are established, according to the authors of a <link...
An incentivized, system-based approach to improve care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases appeared to pay off after just 3 years by significantly cutting the incidence of adverse...
Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, has been approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a requirement that the manufacturer conduct postmarketing studies that address...