18/02/2010 | Obesity, glucose intolerance, and hypertension in childhood are strongly linked with premature death from endogenous causes in young adulthood and middle age, research shows.
18/02/2010 | Some patients are refusing to take metformin due to nausea caused by a reported dead fish or dirty socks odour burped up from the stomach, say US doctors.
04/11/2009 | The use of low-dose aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease should be abandoned, according to the BMJ’s Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin.
23/09/2009 | Failing lap-bands are becoming "a disease of their own", an expert warns, as Medicare figures show more than 15% of bariatric surgery ends up requiring a reverse operation.
09/09/2009 | Identifying which Type 1 diabetes patients will benefit from public hospital-funded insulin pumps may be difficult, according to a clinical audit undertaken in Western Australia. 1 comment
07/09/2009 | A greater amount of sedentary time predicts greater insulin resistance, regardless of how much time is spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity, an observational study shows.
01/09/2009 | Low-dose aspirin does not prevent vascular events in people with asymptomatic atherosclerotic disease detected using the ankle brachial index, research shows.
06/08/2009 | An antidepressant recently registered to treat diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain could be associated with serotonin syndrome, the latest ADRAC bulletin reports.
15/07/2009 | A trial including Sydney teenagers is testing whether medications proven to protect renal and cardiovascular function in adults are also effective in young patients with type 1 diabetes.
13/07/2009 | The QRISK cardiovascular risk equation outperforms the Framingham risk equation and should be used routinely to assess cardiovascular risk in the British population, an independent analysis has found.