Could a common diabetes drug ease bipolar disorder?
A half-century-old diabetes drug appears to help treat bipolar disorder by reversing patients’ insulin resistance, according to a small-scale clinical trial. Bipolar patients who...
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Towards a new drug class in the treatment of type 2 diabetes
Mouse visceral adipose tissue fluorescently labeled with AdipoRed. Nuclei are stained blue. Credit: Vincent Marion. Type 2 diabetes is a major public health problem...
Vitamin D supplements may offset bone loss caused by diabetes drug
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D supplementation may help offset damaging bone loss that occurs in some people who take canagliflozin, a commonly prescribed...
Research reveals how key diabetes drug is made in nature
Acarbose biosynthesis in Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110. a Acarbose biosynthetic gene cluster from Actinoplanes sp. SE50/110; b Proposed acarbose biosynthetic pathways. The thick purple arrows...
Target protein for diabetes drug linked to reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease — ScienceDaily
Mechanisms associated with a particular diabetes drug can also help to protect against Alzheimer’s disease, a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden...
Mounjaro, New Type 2 Diabetes Drug From Lilly, Gets U.S. Approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new injectable drug for type 2 diabetes, Mounjaro (tirzepatide) — representing the first GIP...
Research suggests glucose-lowering drug may mitigate blood sugar-associated blunted response to aerobic training — ScienceDaily
Exercise carries a long list of benefits for everyone. For people with metabolic diseases like pre-diabetes, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, physical...
Lower dose of insulin-sensitizing drug benefits patients with Type 2 diabetes
Efficacy and adverse events by treatment and mode dose taken. Forest plot shows the rate and adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of outcomes by strata...
Newly discovered drug candidate raises insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes
Expression of miR-200c in human islets and effects of miR-200c overexpression on insulin secretion. A: Expression of miR-200a, miR-200b, and miR-200c in islet from...
Newly discovered drug candidate increased insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes — ScienceDaily
Researchers at Lund University have discovered increased levels of of a microRNA in type 2 diabetes, which has a negative effect on insulin secretion....