These were medications originally used to treat diabetes. ... This is a look again by the USPSTF at recommendations relative to screening women who are pregnant for syphilis.

Eye diseases: Alone or together, diabetes and high blood pressure can increase the risk of glaucoma by around 20% compared to people without either disease. Poorly controlled hypertension also doubles ...

U.S. medical organizations have conflicting guidelines on the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs in blacks, a new study finds. Researchers say that about one in four black Americans who are ...

Not all diabetes medications cause weight gain, ... According to a 2018 Canadian research review of numerous medications and 2020 clinical guidelines from Veterans Affairs and the Department of ...

The first-ever generic GLP-1 medication — a duplicate version of Teva Pharmaceuticals' Victoza — was launched on June 25. Doctors explain the potential benefits for diabetes patients.

The USPSTF data show that gestational diabetes diagnosis rates are higher with the 1-step 75-gram OGTT (11.5%) compared with the 2-step 50-gram and 100-gram OGTT screening test (4.9%). However, the ...

Older adults should exercise in order to prevent falls, according to a new recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that was published in JAMA on Tuesday.

This is an update to the ACP’s 2017 guidelines, which recommended physicians prescribe metformin to patients with Type 2 diabetes, and recommended the use of other diabetes drugs like SGLT-2s ...

This image provided by Eli Lilly on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 shows packaging for their new drug Zepbound. The new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro can be sold as a weight-loss ...

The third measure indicates how effective diabetes prevention interventions are based on the number of patients who did not progress to diabetes. Developers have refined and updated these measures ...

In the 2016 USPSTF recommendations, the Task Force recommended an individual decision for initiating aspirin use for adults aged 60 to 69 years with a 10% or greater 10-year CVD risk.

This is the USPSTF’s first substantial change to its breast cancer screening recommendations since 2009. Until then, the USPSTF had recommended annual mammography starting at 40.