http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The diabetes drug metformin slows the growth of lung cancer cells and makes them more likely to be killed by radiotherapy, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-diabetes-drug-lung-cancer-vulnerable.html Cancer Wed, 01 May 2013 08:32:51 EST news286615964 Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans. The researchers believe that the hormone might also have a role in treating type 1, or juvenile, diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-potential-diabetes-breakthrough-hormone-spurring.html Medical research Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:08 EST news286108507 (AP)—The Food and Drug Administration will hold a meeting in June to reassess the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's former blockbuster diabetes drug Avandia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fda-heart-glaxo-diabetes-pill.html Medications Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:36:42 EST news285003395 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson that uses a new method to lower blood sugar—flushing it out in patients' urine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fda-oks-first-of-a-kind-diabetes-drug.html Medications Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:08:40 EST news283788514 (HealthDay News) —Prescription drug prices at U.S. pharmacies can vary widely, and failing to shop around could result in people overpaying by as much as $100 or more a month on average, depending on the drug, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-steep-prescription-drug.html Medications Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:30:01 EST news283698103 A widely prescribed type 2 diabetes drug slows down the ageing process by mimicking the effects of dieting, according to a study published today using worms to investigate how the drug works. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-reveals-diabetes-drug-ageing-worms.html Medical research Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:41:48 EST news283693300 (Medical Xpress)—People with HIV have an elevated risk of heart attacks, diabetes and insulin problems. To compound matters, there are not many drug options to prevent those secondary problems because of concerns that they will weaken the immune system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-diabetes-drug-safe-hiv-patients.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:30:01 EST news282550475 Ever since discovering a decade ago that a gene altered in lung cancer regulated an enzyme used in therapies against diabetes, Reuben Shaw has wondered if drugs originally designed to treat metabolic diseases could also work against cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-diabetes-drug-lung-cancer-patients.html Cancer Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:06:14 EST news278676360 A panel of U.S. health experts ruled Thursday that an experimental diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson is safe and effective, though lingering safety questions must be tracked over the long term. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-diabetes-pill-jj.html Medications Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:11:23 EST news277060272 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 ability to generate an important signaling molecule, pointing to new drug targets. The findings were published online this week in Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-most-used-diabetes-drug-previously-thought.html Diabetes Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:00:31 EST news276685322 Obese, postmenopausal women are at greater risk for developing breast cancer and their cancers tend to be more aggressive than those in lean counterparts. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the December issue of the journal Cancer Research shows how this risk might be prevented. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-healthy-lifestyle-menopause-decrease-breast.html Cancer Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:24:30 EST news275145864 Researchers at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have discovered how a common diarrhea-causing bacterium sends the body's natural defenses into overdrive, actually intensifying illness while fighting infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-diff-reveal-potential-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:20:01 EST news273495381 Vanderbilt researchers are reporting today that a drug currently used to treat type 2 diabetes could be just as effective in treating addiction to drugs, including cocaine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-diabetes-drug-effective-addiction.html Diabetes Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:17 EST news270210723 An 'all-natural' method for studying pancreatic islets, the small tissues responsible for insulin production and regulation in the body, has recently been developed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) to try to track metabolic changes in living tissues in 'real time' and without additional chemicals or drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pancreatic-tissue-yields-opportunities-diabetes.html Medical research Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:03:37 EST news264434570 Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that offers a completely new and promising direction for the development of drugs to treat metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes—a major public health concern in the United States due to the current obesity epidemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-discovery-chemical-affects-biological-clock.html Diabetes Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:00:07 EST news261308300 The widely used diabetes drug metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in the brain. The study reported in the July 6th issue of Cell Stem Cell also finds that those neural effects of the drug also make mice smarter. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-diabetes-drug-metformin-brain-cells.html Medical research Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:00:02 EST news260705010 (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline LLC will pay $3 billion and plead guilty to promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses and to failing to disclose important safety information on a third in the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-glaxosmithkline-fined-3bn.html Other Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:49:17 EST news260452152 A commonly prescribed diabetes drug, metformin, reduces the overall cancer risk in people with Type 2 diabetes, a large systematic review study finds. The results to be presented at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-metformin-cancer-people-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:20:01 EST news259856001 Weight loss can reduce the prevalence of low testosterone levels in overweight, middle-aged men with prediabetes by almost 50 percent, a new study finds. Results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-overweight-men-boost-testosterone-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:20:04 EST news259847732 The diabetes drug sitagliptin appears to reduce the severity of reactive hypoglycemia, a form of low blood sugar that occurs after a meal, a preliminary study finds. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-reactive-hypoglycemia-symptoms-sitagliptin.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:00:12 EST news259838862 Obese adults with poorly controlled Type 1 diabetes can better control their blood sugar by adding liraglutide, a Type 2 diabetes drug, to their insulin therapy, a new study finds. The results, which will be presented at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston, also found that these diabetic patients lost weight and lowered their blood pressure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-liraglutide-insulin-poorly-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:00:01 EST news259835664 (HealthDay) -- For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), treatment with salsalate does not improve endothelial function as measured by flow-mediated, endothelium-dependent dilation (FMD), although it is associated with lower glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and markers of inflammation, according to a study presented at the American Diabetes Association's 72nd Scientific Sessions, held from June 8 to 12 in Philadelphia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-ada-salsalate-doesnt-endothelial-function.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:30:01 EST news258723935 (HealthDay) -- A widely prescribed drug, metformin, may lower the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women with diabetes, a new study indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-diabetes-drug-metformin-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:10:01 EST news258653386 Although the death toll is relatively low for people who suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), it can have severe, life-long consequences for brain function. TBI can impair a patient's mental abilities, impact memory and behavior, and lead to dramatic personality changes. And long-term medical treatment carries a high economic cost. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-diabetes-drug-therapy-traumatic-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 29 May 2012 12:40:34 EST news257514019 A new link between obesity and type 2 diabetes found in mice could open the door to exploring new potential drug treatments for diabetes, University of Michigan Health System research has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-inflammation-hormone-link-pave-drugs.html Diabetes Tue, 15 May 2012 13:41:04 EST news256308049 (AP) -- The first French trial has begun over a diabetes drug that was also used to lose weight and is suspected in the deaths of at least 500 people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-french-trial-diabetes-diet-drug-scandal.html Medications Mon, 14 May 2012 09:35:17 EST news256206909 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a drug already prescribed to millions of people with diabetes could also have another important use: treating one of the world's leading causes of blindness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-diabetes-drug.html Ophthalmology Mon, 07 May 2012 16:07:45 EST news255625657 (AP) -- A consumer advocacy group is calling on government regulators to withdraw a diabetes drug from Novo Nordisk, saying the injectable medication raises the risk of thyroid cancer, pancreatitis and kidney failure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-citizen-diabetes-drug.html Diabetes Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:50:02 EST news254050844 The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that generic drug makers can challenge big-name pharmaceutical firms in court to stop them from broadening the scope of their patent descriptions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-supreme-court-drug-makers.html Medications Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:33:23 EST news253927980 Although the drug metformin is considered the gold standard in the management of type 2 diabetes, a study by a group of French researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that the long-term benefits of this drug compared with the risks are not clearly established—an important finding given that currently, thousands of people around the world are regularly taking metformin to help control their blood sugar levels in the belief that it also has long-lasting health benefits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-benefits-line-treatment-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:00:03 EST news253287062