Pharmacy-led programme improves surgery outcomes for patients with diabetes Glycaemic control programme improves post-surgery outcomes for diabetic patients.…
England and Wales lag behind other countries for paediatric insulin pump use International study shows insulin pump use in England and Wales was 30% of that in other countries.…
Type 2 diabetes found to have three different subtypes By analysing a large database of patient records, it was found that type 2 diabetics clustered into three groups who tended to experience different complications of the disease.…
Type 2 diabetes: pharmacological management strategies Current and future treatment options for the management of patients with type 2 diabetes.…
FDA approval for potassium lowering drug comes with label warning The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat potentially fatal levels of potassium in patients with chronic kidney disease.…
DPP-4 inhibitors show benefits over sulfonylureas as add-on diabetes therapy Patients with diabetes who add dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors to their metformin therapy have a lower risk of stroke and hypoglycaemia, study shows.…
Metformin associated with height increase in children Decreases in body mass index in children treated with metformin could be partly due to increases in height, according to the results of a new study.…
Diabetic enteropathy discovery raises hopes of treatment Gastrointestinal problems experienced by type 1 diabetes patients could be treated with an experimental drug that inhibits insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3. …
Reprogrammed pancreatic cells could treat type 1 diabetes Pancreatic beta cells destroyed in type 1 diabetes could be replaced with other pancreatic cells reprogrammed to produce insulin, suggests study…
High blood pressure linked with onset of diabetes Data from 4.1 million patients in the UK found that high blood pressure was indepdendently associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes.…