Google/Alphabet Is Showing A Significant Interest In Healthcare
The search engine giant Google has built a presence in a variety of industries and it’s now showing significant interest in the healthcare sector. The co-founders (now chiefs at the new company Alphabet) want More...
Bydureon: Here Is Everything You Need To Know
Bydureon, a brand name of Exenatide, is a drug used for controlling severe diabetes. Derived from the saliva of Gila monster, a reptile native to the southwestern United States, it is used with only type 2 diabetes More...
How Does Shift Work Impact Your Health?
Shift work is known to be different and to have other challenges than the traditional work hours. It is clear that there are some health merits that appear. Shift work was designed in order to aid the workflow processes More...
7 Warning Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes
Altering lifestyle and changing food and exercising habits are paving way for more and more lifestyle related diseases to engulf human lives year after year. In the year of 2017 itself, nearly 20 million people More...
Studies Link Metabolic Syndrome with BPH
Recent studies have found a link between metabolic syndrome and BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia. Metabolic syndrome is an umbrella term used to describe a cluster of health problems. Someone with high blood More...
AT&T Now Recognizes Excessive Sweating as a Disability
AT&T has added hyperhidrosis, or excessive sweating, to its list of relatively common medical conditions that it recognizes as a disability. The company is partnering with the International Hyperhidrosis Society More...
How Doctors Say You Should Shed The Weight
More than 35% of Americans are currently considered obese. This situation has contributed to all kinds of health conditions like osteoarthritis, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. There are many reasons someone More...
Diabetes: New cases in youth in the United States up
Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes are increasing among youth in the United States, according to a report, Incidence Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes among Youths, 2002-2012(link is external), More...
Youth with type 2 diabetes develop complications more often than type 1 peers
Teens and young adults with type 2 diabetes develop kidney, nerve, and eye diseases – as well as some risk factors for heart disease – more often than their peers with type 1 diabetes in the years shortly More...
Pete Bissonette examines How Your Friends Affect Your Health
How many friends do you have? If your doctor isn’t asking now, they may start soon. According to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, your social circles are as important to your health More...
Why Diabetes Is One Of The Greatest Threats To Older Adults Now
Recently, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force published a press release revealing that Type 2 diabetes is on the rise amongst U.S. adults who are older than 45 years old. The report notes that diabetes has More...
Diabetes drug, Trulicity, receives FDA approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Trulicity (dulaglutide), a once-weekly subcutaneous injection to improve glycemic control (blood sugar levels), along with diet and exercise, in adults with type More...
Type 2 diabetes drug, Jardiance, receives FDA approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Jardiance (empagliflozin) tablets as an addition to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes symptomsPublic domain More...
Diabetes in the US: 29.1 million Americans have diabetes
PRESS RELEASE More than 29 million people in the United States have diabetes, up from the previous estimate of 26 million in 2010, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More...
Diabetes drug, Tanzeum, receives FDA approval
PRESS RELEASE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday approved Tanzeum (albiglutide) subcutaneous injection to improve glycemic control, along with diet and exercise, in adults with type 2 diabetes. Type More...
New Genome Wide Association Study Reveals Heritable T2D Genes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is becoming a global health issue, with epidemic proportions being reported in many European Union countries after the US declared epidemic proportions over a decade ago. While there has More...
Diabetes drug, Farxiga, gets FDA approval
PRESS RELEASE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved Farxiga (dapaglifozin) tablets to improve glycemic control, along with diet and exercise, in adults with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes symptomsPublic More...
Janssen Pharmaceutical’s new diabetes drug, Invokana, gets FDA approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug to treat type 2 diabetes Friday, according to a press release March 29. Diabetes symptomsPublic domain image/Mikael Häggström The approved drug, More...
