MONDAY, June 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ozempic and Wegovy might help lower the risk of pancreatitis in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, a new study says. Up to now, doctors have been cautious about prescribing semaglutide to patients with a history of pancreatitis, because they feared theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Three months after starting one of the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, more than a quarter of patients have already quit the medications, and by a year from first use more than a third have stopped, new research shows. Reasons for quitting Wegovy, OzempicContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Men are more vulnerable than women to the debilitating effects of diabetes, a new long-term study finds. Overall rates of diabetes are similar between men and women, according to the report published May 16 in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. ButContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class 1 recall — its most urgent kind — for an IOS app linked to a specific kind of insulin pump used by people with diabetes. The recall notice, which the FDA says isContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — One in every four people age 16 or older with type 1 diabetes may be struggling with an eating disorder, a new review of data on the subject finds. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its ownContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Though it is a widespread disorder, neuropathy often goes undiagnosed, new research shows, leaving many people at risk of falls, infection and even amputation. Neuropathy is nerve damage that causes numbness and pain in feet and hands. A study of 169 people treatedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nine of 10 American adults are in the early, middle or late stages of a syndrome that leads to heart disease, a new report finds, and almost 10% have the disease already. “Poor cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health is widespread among the U.S.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Peripheral artery disease (PAD) involves a debilitating narrowing of arteries in the legs, and the National Institutes of Health estimates that 1 in every 20 Americans over 50 is affected. Research into best treatments for women with PAD is lacking, however. Now, aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Emulsifiers — substances that are essential ingredients in processed foods — appear to increase people’s risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study finds. In fact, the more emulsifiers that people eat as part of their food, the higher their risk of typeContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Severe mental illness can contribute to a decline in a person’s physical health, with many chronic conditions slowly eroding their wellness, a new review finds. People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are more than twice as likely to have multiple chronic health problemsContinue Reading