Americans do love their TV time, watching around five hours of programming a day on average. But this most beloved of passive pastimes may exact a high price, with new research linking TV viewing to a raised risk of diabetes and heart disease.

You won’t be able to get the type 2 diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) in pharmacies after November 18. That’s when new Food and Drug Administration restrictions will take effect, with the aim of reducing the risk of heart attacks caused by the medication. Instead, you’ll have to enroll in a special program to get rosiglitazone and combination products that contain it by mail order.

People with type 2 diabetes can make a significant improvement to their glucose control by getting just over 20 minutes of exercise a day.

Treating high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes could slow the decline from memory problems into full-blown Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.

Not everyone with type 2 diabetes needs insulin—the condition can often be controlled with drugs and lifestyle changes—but those who do often dislike the daily injections. They might be happy to hear about an experimental form of insulin that's slowly absorbed over time, allowing just three shots a week. It’s called insulin degludec.

A study out this week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that people who have blood glucose levels that are elevated but not yet quite diabetic should consider taking a drug usually reserved for those with full-blown diabetes. We disagree.

A comprehensive review published online today in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes that the best diabetes drug is one of the oldest and cheapest diabetes drugs: metformin. That medication costs about 35 cents a pill when bought as...

Q. I'm 56, have three pre-existing conditions (Hodgkin's disease, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease), and a teenage son with ADHD. I've been on COBRA since my husband died last March, paying about $1,000 a month, which I can...

People eating a Mediterranean diet are less likely to end up with the metabolic syndrome, a precursor to type 2 diabetes, according to a comprehensive analysis in the March 15 issue of the Journal of the American College of...

People with type 2 diabetes and heart disease who aim for too-aggressive control of their blood sugars increase their risk of death by 19 percent over 5 years, according to a study in the March 3 issue of the...

This week the Food and Drug Administration upgraded the December recall on 359 lots of Abbott glucose test strips to Class I because of potentially false low glucose readings. Class I is the agency's most serious type of recall...

Roughly one in four adults 45 and older now take a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, compared with just one in 50 about 15 years ago, according to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Yesterday, the FDA announced the agency is working with Abbott Diabetes Care to recall 359 different lots of glucose test strips marketed under the following brand names: Precision Xceed Pro; Precision Xtra; Medisense Optium; Optium; OptiumEZ; ReliOn Ultima.  These strips...

The Institute of Medicine today increased the recommended levels of vitamin D, but challenged the notion that there’s widespread deficiency of the vitamin, or of the mineral calcium. And while it confirmed that both nutrients are vital in promoting bone...

Nearly three-quarters of Americans experiencestress levels that exceed what they consider healthy. It may not come as a surprise to you that Americans are seriously stressed-out. But a survey released today by the American Psychological Association also paints a...