News tagged with 'Type 2 Diabetes'

Diabetes affects about 24 million Americans and is rising globally in developing nations. This published study finds lifestyle changes, diet and exercise, worked better than the popular prescription drug, metformin, to reverse diabetes.

New research presented at the American Association of Diabetes conference this week suggests blood glucose and insulin sensitivity begins changing several years before the onset of diabetes.

It's hard to believe, but intense and very brief exercise of about three minute duration, may be all that is needed to jump-start diabetic insulin levels and improve their health picture. 

Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals now say there have been four deaths associated with their drug for type-2 diabetes, Byetta.  Amylin shares plunged by 24 percent at midday after executives disclosed Tuesday night the additional deaths "in the interest of transparency."

Despite public efforts to promote good nutrition and physical activity, Americans are getting fatter. Adult obesity rates have surged across 37 states during the last year, according to an annual state-by-state report.

More than 56 million Americans reportedly have drinking water with unsafe arsenic levels., a heavy metal that comes from rocks and industrial chemicals. A new study suggests a link between arsenic exposure and type 2 diabetes. 

Just as our nation has skyrocketing obesity rates, the number of diabetic mothers has doubled and increased five fold among teenage mothers, raising the risk for miscarriage, stillbirth and birth defects.