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Now Available: New Drug for Diabetes
When patients have more treatments to choose from, they have a better chance of finding one that works best for them. Now, diabetes patients and their doctors have a new drug to consider.
Stopping a Second Stroke
Diabetes patients are at risk for all sorts of heart problems, including stroke. If a diabetic has had a stroke in the past, the chance of another stroke is even higher.
Secret Diabetes
Diabetes should be nothing to be ashamed of. If you have the disease, taking care of yourself is more important than other people knowing that you are sick.
A Simple Spray May Stop Diabetes
Thousands of children and adults are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every year. What if there was a way to stop this terrible disease? Well, scientists may be closer to a answer.
Sales of Diabetes Drugs Stopped Due to Bladder Cancer Risks
Actos and Competact, two top-selling type 2 diabetes drugs, have been pulled off the markets in France and Germany following studies linking the medications to bladder cancer.
Diabetic Teens Have Heart Problems Too
It is already known that type 2 diabetes can affect adults' hearts. Now, research shows that the disease can also cause heart problems in teenagers.
Treating Cancer Could Lead to Diabetes
Certain hormones can make prostate cancer worse. One treatment for this type of cancer is to stop these hormones from being made. However, that treatment can put men at risk for diabetes.
Save Those Feet!
People with diabetes have to keep track of many aspects of their health, including foot infections caused by damaged nerves and not enough blood flow. Often, diabetics have to get an infected foot or leg amputated.
Blood Pressure at Bedtime
Doctors often tell patients to take their medications at the same time each day. But what time of day is best? When it comes to blood pressure drugs, that time may be right before bed.
A Man-Made Organ
What if doctors could make a new organ to replace a broken one? Well, it seems they can. Scientists have built a pancreas that will help people with type 1 diabetes.