Diabetes

TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Walmart said Tuesday that it will start selling its own private brand of insulin at much lower prices than competing products. Insulin prices have ...

Jun 30, 2021

TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In 2019, 33.0 million (10.2 percent) persons of all ages were uninsured, according to a study published online June 29 in the National Health Stat...

Jun 30, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The use of certain classes of diabetes medications prior to severe COVID-19 infection is associated with lower mortality in patients with diabete...

Jun 30, 2021

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Add-on proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy may improve glycemic indices among individuals with diabetes, but PPI treatment is not associated with th...

Jun 29, 2021

MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Bedside case presentation is more efficient and results in similar patient knowledge about their medical care compared with outside-the-room case pr...

Jun 29, 2021

THURSDAY, June 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The decrease in life expectancy seen between 2018 and 2020 was larger in the United States than in other high-income countries, according to a stu...

Jun 24, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Adolescent body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for poor health outcomes in adults, regardless of adult BMI, according to a research letter pub...

Jun 23, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with type 2 diabetes with worsening heart failure, the rate of days alive and out of the hospital (DAOH) is increased with sotaglifl...

Jun 23, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Levothyroxine treatment is frequently initiated for mildly increased thyrotropin levels, with no change in the median thyrotropin level upon trea...

Jun 23, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than four in 10 patients with diabetes have diabetic kidney disease (DKD), according to a study published online June 14 in BMJ Open Diabete...

Jun 23, 2021

TUESDAY, June 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 10 million Americans signed up for Medicaid through January, and the 80 million people now enrolled in the program is the most in its histor...

Jun 23, 2021

MONDAY, June 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A higher risk for severe COVID-19 illness can be found among children with medical complexity and certain underlying conditions, according to a stud...

Jun 22, 2021

TUESDAY, June 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with high blood pressure (BP) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are not receiving dialysis, a systolic BP of <120 mm Hg measured...

Jun 22, 2021

TUESDAY, June 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Aspirin use for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is higher for older adults with versus those without diabetes, according to a st...

Jun 22, 2021

Optimizing the management of cardiovascular complications continues to be an important need in the care of patients with T2D. The therapeutic landscape for T2D has changed dramatically with ...

Jun 21, 2021

FRIDAY, June 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Having diabetes and frequent sleep disturbances increases the risk for early death, according to a study published online June 8 in the Journal of S...

Jun 19, 2021

THURSDAY, June 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Clinicians rarely discuss bariatric surgery with obese patients, according to a study published online June 10 in Obesity.Lee-Shing Chang, M.D., f...

Jun 18, 2021

THURSDAY, June 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The landmark Affordable Care Act, which has expanded health care coverage to tens of millions of Americans, has withstood a third challenge before...

Jun 18, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals with class 1 obesity, bariatric surgery is effective for weight loss and comorbidity resolution, according to a study presented a...

Jun 17, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Among health care system employees, there are considerable disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates by race/ethnicity and occupation, according ...

Jun 17, 2021