Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Patient 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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The latest studies on Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline's blockbuster diabetes drug, have raised enough questions about the drug's safety to worry the American Diabetes Association.
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Diabetes patients often neglect the most important treatment for saving lives: lowering cholesterol.
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ATLANTA Doctors have halted a study on children with sickle cell anemia because two of the young patients have suffered strokes. The study was designed to determine whether children with the disease could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy.
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A new antibody treatment for Alzheimer&#39;s has apparently halted its progression in a small human trial. The treatment lowers the amount of beta peptide in the brain, thought to be the cause of
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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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More elderly Americans are contracting  diabetes and the majority develop complications such as heart  disease that might be prevented if they properly monitored  their health, a researcher said on Monday.
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GenVec Inc. has suspended human testing of its leading drug, a potential cancer therapy, after a patient died during a study. The Gaithersburg biotechnology company&#39;s stock plunged
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A drug used to treat diabetes also seems to prevent it in people at high risk of developing the disease, the largest study ever to test this has found.
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MONDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that diabetes -- not obesity -- puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early.
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Early results from the largest study ever of aggressive measures to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetics has found no sign that intensive treatment increases the risk of death, an international team of 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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Diabetes is dangerous even before the disease becomes full-blown, boosting the risk of death from heart disease in its earliest form, Australian researchers said on Monday.
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ATLANTA: A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance
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Bayer HealthCare stopped a late-stage trial of Nexavar in patients with non-small cell lung cancer after a monitoring committee concluded the study would not improve overall survival.
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Novo Nordisk discontinues development of the troubled diabetes treatment.
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The federal government yesterday canceled a $100 million study designed to test a new generation of drugs to prevent breast cancer in women at risk for the disease.