http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Friday approved three new medications to help people battle type 2 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-drugs-diabetes.html Medications Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:00:01 EST news278401620 For decades, neurologists have known that a diet high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates can reduce epileptic seizures that resist drug therapy. But how the diet worked, and why, was a mystery—so much so that in 2010, The New York Times Magazine called it "Epilepsy's Big, Fat Miracle." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-reverse-epilepsy-miracle-diet.html Neuroscience Wed, 23 May 2012 12:24:29 EST news256994639 (AP) -- Advisers to government health regulators on Thursday recommended that that they approve sales of what would be the first new prescription weight-loss drug in the U.S. in more than a decade, despite concerns over cardiac risks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-weight-loss-drug.html Medications Thu, 10 May 2012 18:09:44 EST news255892178 In the primary result from the largest double-blind study ever completed to assess a drug's effect in the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm abnormality, rivaroxaban, an anti-clotting drug, was shown to be an attractive alternative to warfarin, the current standard for treatment of atrial fibrillation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-heart-patients-benefit-drug.html Cardiology Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:21:26 EST news232215654