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Health Tip: Understanding Pre-Diabetes

When blood sugar is elevated, but not high enough for full-blown diabetes

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Killing Ourselves?

A sobering report out this week talks about the fact that we in the U.S. are spending $2 trillion on health care – more than any other country in the world - but we live shorter lives than people in Japan, Switzerland, Canada and Britain, and rank 29th in infant mortality, tied with Slovakia and Poland. Check out the story to find out how Americans are still managing to kill themselves and how the number... read more

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The Darker Side of Drug Development

Take a look at this story on the darker side of drug development, where a new study finds that two percent of scientists admit they have falsified or altered data to improve the outcome of drug tests at least once, and 35-percent admit to questionable research practices.

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Why Swine Flu Differs From Seasonal Flu

Pandemic virus affects lungs and stomach, whereas seasonal flu doesn't, researchers say

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Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Often Overweight

Study explores weight problems faced by youngsters with the disease

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Medicine's Not-So-Silent Killer: Human Guinea Pigs

Check out this week’s report on current day human guinea pigs, and how twenty million Americans are recruited into 40,000 clinical trials annually, with 50 to 93 percent of the healthy recruits saying money is a significant motivator. Find out how much money a clinical trial guinea pig can make, and how to protect yourself if you’re tempted to volunteer.

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FDA Tells Patients to Stick With Diabetes Drug Linked to Cancer

There's no conclusive evidence that Lantus causes malignancy, agency says

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Drugs May Not Slow Kidney Damage in Diabetes

Study uncovers possible benefit, though, in stemming vision loss

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Obesity Rates Continue to Climb in U.S.

Eight of 10 states with highest number of obese adults are in the South, report says

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Insulin and Cancer

The series of articles brings up all sorts of questions: Do other newer long-acting insulin analogs such as Levemir (insulin detemir) also share this association? If Lantus is associated with cancer, what kind of cancer? Does the administration of insulin cause a new cancer, or cause a pre-existing cancer to grow faster than if there had been no insulin therapy? None of these questions are answered in the studies that are published here.

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