1+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (349+ words) UK researchers receive funding to investigate whether voice and health information could help identify people who need earlier assessment. Researchers are investigating whether a short voice recording could one day help health services identify people at greater risk of heart…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (319+ words) Diabetes care often focuses on medicines, blood tests and appointments. But for many people, the hardest part of managing type 2 diabetes happens at home, in the kitchen, with limited money, limited time and limited access to healthy food. A new…...

3+ mon, 23+ hour ago   (296+ words) The UK has approved its first GLP-1 receptor agonist tablet for weight loss and weight management. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has authorised a semaglutide tablet under the Wegovy brand. Until now, GLP-1 weight loss treatment has largely…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (255+ words) Metformin is one of the most widely used medicines in the world. It has been used for decades to treat type 2 diabetes, but scientists are still uncovering exactly how it works. A new study from the University of Montreal suggests…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (16+ words) diabetes.co.uk...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (354+ words) A team in Geneva has developed an experimental gel designed to help insulin-producing cells survive after transplantation for type 1 diabetes. The goal is to solve one of the biggest problems in this field – getting the transplanted cells to stay alive…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (303+ words) A new trial suggests retatrutide may become the most effective weight loss injection yet tested. In the phase 3 TRIUMPH-1 study, adults taking the highest 12mg dose lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight over 80 weeks. That is more than has…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (343+ words) A new clinical trial suggests metformin may still have a role in type 1 diabetes, even if not for the reason many had assumed. Doctors have sometimes prescribed metformin off-label in type 1 diabetes in the hope that it would improve insulin…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (188+ words) Even though the fish were genetically similar and lived in the same conditions, they aged very differently. By early mid-life, those differences were already showing up in how they moved and rested. Fish that later lived longer were generally more…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (261+ words) A new Cleveland Clinic study looked at what happened after nearly 8,000 patients stopped injectable semaglutide or tirzepatide in routine clinical practice. The study included adults with overweight or obesity who had started one of these medicines for obesity or type…...