Medications
Metformin Improves Blood Glucose Levels and BMI in Very Obese Children
December 10, 2012 (The Endocrine Society) — Metformin therapy has a beneficial treatment effect over placebo in improving body mass index (BMI) and fasting glucose levels in obese children, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The study showed reduction in BMI was sustained for six months.
Childhood obesity has increased globally over the last two decades and it is link
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Email this Drug Helps Women Who Stop Smoking Keep Off Weight
December 10, 2012 (Newswise) — A medication being tested to help smokers kick the habit also may help avoid the weight gain that is common after quitting but only in women, according to a study published in the December issue of Biological Psychiatry. This is the first medication shown to reduce weight gain for up to one year in women smokers who quit.
Naltrexone — an opioi
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Email this New Target for Treating Prediabetes in Patients with Kidney Disease
December 23, 2012 (Newswise) — Insulin resistance, or prediabetes, in individuals with kidney disease may be caused by the progressive retention of certain compounds that are normally excreted by the kidneys in healthy individuals, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings might be used to prevent i
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Email this Most-Used Diabetes Drug Works in Different Way than Previously Thought
January 7, 2013 (Perelman School of Medicine) — A team, led by senior author Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Medicine, with the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, found that the diabetes drug metformin works in a different way than previously understood. Their research in mice found that metformin suppresses the liver hormone glucagon's
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Email this Scientists Unlock How Insulin Interacts With Cells
January 10, 2013 (Newswise) — The discovery of insulin nearly a century ago changed diabetes from a death sentence to a chronic disease.
Today a team that includes researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine announced a discovery that could lead to dramatic improvements in the lives of people managing diabetes.
After decades of speculati
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