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 Expensive New Diabetes Drugs Add Nothing But Cost And Complications

Diabetes is such a huge and profitable market that Pharma is ever active in producing new and more expensive drugs. Unfortunately, they are great for profits, not great for patients.

 How Do You Know Which Diabetes Drug Is Best for You?

This article focuses on the pros and cons of the oral diabetes drugs. Almost all people with diabetes are candidates for one or more of these medicines — but with so many kinds of diabetes drugs on the market, the choice can be difficult and confusing (even for doctors).

 New diabetes drugs do not tackle root causes of obesity, experts warn

Doctors say preventing obesity by avoiding unhealthy food is better than trying to reverse its effects.

 No Matter What The FDA Decides, New Diabetes Drugs Will Still Require CV Outcomes Trials

Beyond proving efficacy in lowering blood sugar in diabetics, the FDA now required sponsors of new diabetes drugs to provide long-term data showing that, unlike Avandia, new agents at the very least did not create excess harm with respect to cardiovascular effects. Such proof isn’t trivial to obtain.

 Plant Hallucinogen Holds Hope for Diabetes Treatment

A potent molecular cocktail containing a compound from ayahuasca spurs rapid growth of insulin-producing cells.

 Treating Diabetes May be as Simple as Growing New Pancreatic Cells​

Researchers at the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center have already developed an artificial pancreas. Next, a drug that could regenerate pancreatic cells in the body.

 Why Doctors for Diabetics Now Recommend Surgery Instead of Drugs

New guidelines for surgical treatment of type 2 diabetes bolster hopes of finding a cure, according to Francesco Rubino, but long-standing preconceptions must be put aside.

When Diabetes Treatment Goes Too Far

Given the questionable benefits and the very real risks of going below seven, the American Geriatrics Society and the Veterans Affairs diabetes guidelines have, for years, recommended a cautious, case-by-case approach for older patients. For those with serious health problems, or prior history of hypoglycemia, going below seven may not be worth the risks involved. The problem is that we haven’t put these guidelines into practice.

2 diabetes drugs spike heart attack risk

Two drugs commonly prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes carry a high risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, or amputation, a new study warns.

A Dilemma for Diabetes Patients: How Low to Push Blood Sugar, and How to Do It?

The starting point for lowering blood sugar is diet and exercise. But for many patients, that is not sufficient. Then doctors and patients are faced with two questions: How low should blood sugar go? And what drugs should be used to lower it?

A Pill to Treat Diabetes

Bariatric surgery has been shown to relieve Type II diabetes. Scientists at Glyscend are developing a drug that could mimic the effect—but with no surgery required.

Diabesity Epidemic Part II: Why Conventional Medicine Makes It Worse

This may surprise you, but many of the methods used to lower blood sugar such as insulin or oral hypoglycemic drugs actually make the problem worse.

Diabetes Drug That Also Treats Obesity Could Make Billions

Earlier this month, at the Endocrine Society’s annual conference in Boston, Danish pharma Novo Nordisk presented three years of data showing that their diabetes drug liraglutide helped obese and prediabetic patients lose weight without undue risk. Which is big, for a drug that’s been flagged for causing cancer. In rats, that is. Liraglutide—or Saxenda, as it’s known commercially for weight-loss—carries a black box warning from the FDA for giving thyroid tumors to rodents.

Hoodwinked by the diabetes industry

Hoodwinked by the diabetes industry, we spend, as a society, tons of money treating this so-called risk factor called hemoglobin A1c, yet all that money does almost nothing to save lives or help people live longer. We should be spending healthcare dollars that purchase health.

How to Fight Type 2 Diabetes

You might not know this from listening to the American Diabetes Association or Paula Deen, the new face of the disease, but the first line of defense against type 2 diabetes is weight loss.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

Helping to increase knowledge and understanding about diabetes among patients, health care professionals, and the general public.