Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Deaths
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A surprise finding in a major federal study calls into question a long-held tenet of diabetes care.
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Description: A consortium of leading medical journals wants to prevent publication of clinical trial results that overemphasize positive data.
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NEW YORK  - The A1C test, the usual way of measuring long-range diabetes control, is not reliable for people who are undergoing hemodialysis, a new study shows.
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Roche Holding AG had ended its study of heart transplant patients after a higher than expected rate of acute organ rejection was found, U.S. health regulators said on Thursday.
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Aggressively driving blood sugar levels as low as possible in high-risk diabetes patients appears to increase the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, according to major government study that stunned and disappointed experts.
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A prominent study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have overstated the number of obesity-related deaths in 2000 by as much as 20 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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Health experts have pronounced diabetes as one of the deadliest diseases. Diabetes which killed an increasing number of New York City residents last year for the first time ranked among the five leading causes
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An experimental drug prevented mice from developing diabetes and heart disease and might one day be used to stave off the diseases in humans, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Deaths from cardiovascular disease are declining among men with diabetes, but not women, and poorer control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels may be to blame, a new study suggests.
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GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia was not to blame for heart deaths in a trial to see if treating diabetes would reduce heart disease, U.S. government-funded researchers said on Wednesday.
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A few diabetics have been able to give up their daily insulin shots after getting transplants of pancreas cells, according to the broadest study of this experimental treatment. But for most patients, the results fell short of the cure researchers have been seeking.
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Doctors in the United States have shunned GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia since a study was published last week linking the drug to heart-attack risk, according to daily prescription data.
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Diabetes is an undetected and silent threat for many people who end up with heart disease, according to new research published on Monday.
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An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.
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BusinessWeek Online - The news last week that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s  popular diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of heart attacks is now causing a rift among doctors by specialty, leading to charges by each side that the other is endangering patients. Endocrinologists, who treat diabetics, tend to regard the data, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with skepticism, pointing to weaknesses in the study, particularly when compared to more rigorous clinical trials. Cardiologists and drug safety experts, foremost among them study author Dr. ...
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Regular exercise alone is not enough to cut the risk of death from obesity, according to new research. The study which followed 116,000 nurses over 24 years was published in the New England Journal of Medicine
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A temporary rise in blood glucose (sugar) levels can cause diabetics to suffer a slowdown in their cognitive processes and interfere with their ability to think clearly, according to a study in the January issue of Diabetes Care.