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Combined Therapy More Effective for Young Diabetes Patients

Investigators from the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) School of Medicine (WUSM) say the younger type II diabetes patients, between the ages of 10 and 17, answer better to a combination of two diabetes treatments, rather than to a single one. The team is careful to point out that the same may not hold tru...

30 April 2012
10:03 GMT

Lifestyle Changes Are the Best Drug Against Diabetes

A multitude of diabetes patients arrive at their doctors' offices hoping to get pills that could alleviate their condition. When they go home however, they carry on with the same lifestyle choices that triggered the condition in the first place. Scientists say that changing lifestyles is the best drug. An import...

21 March 2011
12:00 GMT

Type II Diabetes Drug Can Prevent Lung Cancer

According to a new series of studies, it would appear that the common type II diabetes drug metformin can be successfully used to prevent the development of tobacco-induced lung tumors.The research team behind the investigation determined that the development of colorectal tumors can be inhibited by the drug as well....

3 September 2010
04:14 GMT

Diabetes Drugs Put Patients at Risk of Death

Once you get diabetes, the only possible way to survive is to use specific drugs, or to take daily shots of insulin, depending on the form of the disease. But a new study shows that popular types of diabetes drugs actually put people at increased risks of heart failure and even death. Sulphonylureas and metformin, tw...

4 December 2009
05:34 GMT


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