Overweight & Obesity
No more needles? A daily pill may work as well as Wegovy shots to treat obesity
What if treating obesity could be as easy as popping an effective pill?
Jun 26, 2023
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News tagged with diabetes medications
Diabetes
FDA approves new drugs to treat type 2 diabetes in kids
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved two drugs that have been used in adults with type 2 diabetes for years for use in children aged 10 and up.
Jun 21, 2023
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Diabetes
Even with insurance, many patients with diabetes turn to crowdfunding to offset high cost of care
An analysis of medical crowdfunding campaigns reveals the types of expenses that patients with diabetes may struggle to afford. The data showed that even insured patients with diabetes used GoFundMe to offset the excess costs ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Diabetes
Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt
Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to go dim.
Jun 1, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Postpartum women face high burden of medical debt
Postpartum women experience higher levels of medical debt than other women, according to a study published online May 18 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
May 19, 2023
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Diabetes
Weight loss puts type 2 diabetes into remission for five years, finds research
New findings have revealed that nearly a quarter (23%) of participants who were in remission from type 2 diabetes at two years in a clinical trial remained in remission at five years.
Apr 19, 2023
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Medications
New study provides first published examples of medication deprescribing protocols for type 2 diabetes
A qualitative case series research study published in Clinical Diabetes provides the first published examples of protocols to help guide clinical decision making on when and how to deprescribe medications following successful ...
Apr 18, 2023
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Diabetes
Gut microbes can help diagnose gestational diabetes as early as the first trimester of pregnancy
A new Bar-Ilan University study has found that gestational diabetes can be diagnosed as early as the first trimester of pregnancy—months earlier than typically detected.
Mar 22, 2023
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Diabetes
Family's participation key to advancing diabetes research
Individuals with Type 1 diabetes have a smaller pancreas than people without diabetes. This is surprising because insulin-producing beta cells account for just a small fraction of the pancreas, so the loss of beta cells in ...
Mar 11, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Characterization and determinant factors of critical illness and in-hospital mortality of COVID-19 patients in Kenya
Globally, there is an anticipated epidemiological heterogeneity of COVID-19 patients. No epidemiological studies validated the epidemiological characterization of COVID-19 patients in African settings.
Mar 8, 2023
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