When diabetes causes CKD, it’s sometimes called diabetic kidney disease. Elevated blood sugar levels that result from diabetes can damage the tiny blood vessels inside your kidneys. As a result, your ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has added a new set of drugs for obesity and diabetes to its essential medicines list, alongside treatments for cancer and cystic fibrosis. Cheap generic versions ...

Researchers developed a model using routine clinical data to identify optimal glucose-lowering therapies for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Individuals receiving model-predicted optimal therapy ...

Kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes treated with a new class of anti-obesity drugs were less likely to experience organ failure and survived longer, a new study shows. Not only is ...

Medicare Part D spending on diabetes drugs increased 364% from 2019 to 2023, driven by GLP-1 and SGLT-2 inhibitors. Metformin spending decreased by 5%, contrasting with the surge in other diabetes ...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors used to treat type 2 diabetes are associated with an 11% lower risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, ...

Andrew Stewart, MD, director, Mount Sinai Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute, New York Now, we know that part of the problem also lies with your beta cells. These are the cells in your ...

Physicians have hesitated to prescribe GLP-1RA medications, such as those with brand names of Ozempic and Victoza, to patients with a history of pancreatitis because it was believed they could ...

New research from investigators at Mass General Brigham suggests that a commonly used type 2 diabetes medication is linked to a higher rate of heart-related conditions compared to medications that hit ...

A drug used to treat type 2 diabetes may also be used to treat prostate cancer. The corresponding study was published in Molecular Cancer. "This is a significant discovery. For the first time, we have ...