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Over decades, a healthy lifestyle outperforms metformin in preventing onset of Type 2 diabetes

Written by | 7 Jul 2025

In the early 2000s the U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a large randomized clinical trial, showed that intensive lifestyle modification was better than a medication called metformin at […]

Doctors urge FIFA to end deal with Coca-Cola ahead of Club World Cup

Written by | 19 Jun 2025

Football’s governing body FIFA should drop Coca-Cola as sponsors of the 2025 Club World Cup which begins this week, urge doctors in The BMJ today. Dr Chris van Tulleken at […]

Intensive weight loss programme improves eating disorder symptoms in people with Type 2 Diabetes at risk of eating disorders, Oxford study finds

Written by | 15 Jun 2025

An intensive low-energy diet programme, similar to the NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission, significantly improved eating disorder symptoms in people with type 2 diabetes and excess weight who […]

Popular diabetes medications, including GLP-1 drugs, may protect against Alzheimer’s disease

Written by | 20 Apr 2025

A study led by researchers in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy has found that a pair of popular glucose-lowering medications may have protective effects against the […]

A diabetes, heart failure, and kidney disease medication is the first of its kind to significantly reduce both heart attacks and strokes

Written by | 19 Feb 2025

Sotagliflozin, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with additional cardiovascular risk factors, can significantly reduce heart […]

Lack of essential vitamins and minerals common in people with type 2 diabetes

Written by | 5 Feb 2025

Micronutrient deficiency, whereby levels of vitamins and minerals essential for healthy bodily function are far too low, is common in people with type 2 diabetes, finds a pooled […]

Tirzepatide associated with greater weight loss in women than men

Written by | 1 Oct 2024

All doses of tirzepatide, a medication approved in the EU to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, consistently reduced body weight in women and men, but women experienced […]

New blood test could be an early warning for child diabetes

Written by | 26 Sep 2024

A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart […]

Innovative semaglutide hydrogel could reduce diabetes shots to once a month

Written by | 10 Sep 2024

French researchers have developed a new drug delivery system that could cut the dosing schedule for the type 2 diabetes and weight control drug semaglutide to just once […]

Red and processed meat consumption associated with higher type 2 diabetes risk, study of two million people finds

Written by | 27 Aug 2024

Meat consumption, particularly consumption of processed meat and unprocessed red meat, is associated with a higher type 2 diabetes risk, an analysis of data from 1.97 million participants, […]

Type 2 diabetes increased by almost 20% over a decade

Written by | 25 Aug 2024

Type 2 diabetes increased by almost 20% between 2012 and 2022, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. The researchers found an increase in diabetes among all […]

Data shows surge in in new GLP-1RA prescriptions for obesity without type 2 diabetes

Written by | 25 Jul 2024

A nationwide study found a marked increase in new GLP-1RA prescriptions over the last decade, particularly since 2020. Semaglutide was the most prescribed GLP-1RA, by far, in 2023. […]

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