Living with diabetes? Work with a doctor to develop a care plan including medication, blood sugar monitoring, and strategies to manage stress.

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works.

In a groundbreaking clinical trial, researchers have discovered that a new oral diabetes medication, orforglipron, may be as effective for weight loss as the widely used injectable semaglutide, ...

A cheap, century-old medication can improve life for people with type 1 diabetes, according to new research. A clinical trial ...

Diabetes is very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that 38.4 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes. That’s 11.6 percent of the ...

Metformin is particularly effective for people with diabetes or prediabetes who have obesity and have difficulty managing their blood sugar through lifestyle changes alone. Metformin is a widely used ...

The pharmaceutical company that makes the weight-loss drug Wegovy and the diabetes medication Ozempic secured a court victory that limits compounding pharmacies from selling versions of those popular ...

Ozempic, Wegovy and other GLP-1 medications have gained widespread popularity for weight loss and diabetes control in recent years — but the spike in demand has made it difficult for some people to ...

Some health-obsessed Americans believe the next antiaging therapeutic already exists—in the medicine cabinets of millions of diabetes patients. The widely used class of drugs, called SGLT2 inhibitors ...

Nearly 2 in 3 people who sought to lose weight quit popular weight loss and diabetes drugs such as Ozempic or Victoza within one year, according to a new study. About 65% of those without diabetes ...

This report illustrates how providing vital diabetes medications to uninsured patients through a charitable medication distributor improves clinical outcomes. Objectives: This study examined the ...

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