Posts Tagged ‘diabetes’
Questions Over Avandia Safety Continue
Controversy continues to plague GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia. Several studies have found that Avandia raises heart risks in diabetics, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether the drug is too dangerous to stay on the market. But in a new study of more than 29,000 diabetics, done by researchers at health insurer [...]
Green Vegetables May Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
A new study published in British Medical Journal has found eating high amounts of green leafy vegetables helps significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. Researchers reviewed six studies involving 220,000 men and women to examine the association between fruit and vegetable consumption and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The [...]
Bariatric Surgery Shown To Reduce Diabetes
In a recent study at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers found that bariatric surgery not only enables obese diabetic patients to lose weight, but the majority of them were also able to quit taking diabetes medications as well. Researcher Martin Makary, associate professor of surgery, headed up a project that evaluated 2,235 [...]
