This video explains 10 early signs and symptoms of diabetes that often go unnoticed. These include increased thirst, frequent bathroom breaks, recurrent infections, unexplained weight changes, and blurry…
This video dives into Pompe Disease, also known as Glycogen Storage Disease Type 2. The host explains the key components of this disease, where the body cannot break…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with gestational diabetes are more likely to maintain target glucose levels with glyburide than with metformin, a randomized trial has shown. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only about half of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) will increase in size, and those that grow less than 1.5 mm per year…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a mass screening tool for diabetes and pre-diabetes in China, the fasting capillary blood glucose (FCG) test performs better than the hemoglobin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A six-month course of triple antiplatelet therapy after drug-eluting stent implantation reduces the risk of revascularization for up to two years, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin prevents coronary heart disease in blacks, according to trial results published in the December American Heart Journal. “It’s very…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with atrial fibrillation, a body mass index (BMI) of 27.0 kg/meters-squared or higher increases the risk for left atrial/left atrial appendage…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes had fewer severe hypoglycemic episodes when they started a preprandial insulin analog regimen before conception rather than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing pulmonary embolism, single-photon emission CT (SPECT) lung scintigraphy is a viable alternative to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA), and it offers advantages…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In diabetic patients, sirolimus-eluting stents reduce the risk for coronary artery restenosis compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents, a meta-analysis shows. Because the relative efficacy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment of depression in low-income minorities with poorly controlled diabetes improved HbA1c and systolic blood pressure, investigators report in the December issue of…
