Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Testim, a patented testosterone replacement therapy gel.  Testim

The phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor, sildenafil dilates epicardial coronary arteries, improves endothelial dysfunction and inhibits platelet activation in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), United States

Erythrocytosis associated with cyclosporine inununosuppression therapy in kidney transplant patients can be safely treated with a low doses of an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor

במאמר המובא בסוף השבוע בעתון הארץ מציג רן רזניק תוצאות של מחקר בקרב רופאי קופות החולים, אשר לפיו 40% מרופאי הקופות מדווחים על לחץ של

Proteins associated with inflammation may help identify different levels of stroke risk in men who have hypertension, Swedish researchers report in today’s rapid access issue

Excessive bleeding, a troublesome side-effect that causes many women to stop taking hormone replacement therapies (HRT), is less likely with progesterone than with more commonly

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition By Elda Hauschildt Full-term babies who are breastfed could have their own distinct plasma glucose levels

Two particular polymorphisms in the osteoprotegerin gene promoter may be involved in the regulation of bone mineral density (BMD) and be a risk factor for

Family physicians can learn to identify patients with obvious retinopathy with the right equipment, but they still need to refer patients with diabetes to eye

Failure to screen regularly for Type 1 diabetes can result in 2-3 percent of genetically at-risk children being missed.  An Australian study suggests that repeat

Spanish biotechnology firm Zeltia said on Sunday its experimental cancer drug aplidine had performed well enough against a rare thyroid cancer in a phase I

Novo Nordisk announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new indication for use of the oral antidiabetic drug (OAD) Prandin®

Reports produced by a continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) designed for home use (MiniMed, Sylmar, California) correlate well with hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels in type

Lipid peroxidation products and superoxide dismutase activity are elevated in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.  Catalase activity, however, is significantly reduced in patients with

Two possible explanations for the decrease of serum prolactin in postmenopausal women after long-term raloxifene have been suggested by researchers in Italy. This decrease may

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 10/16/2002 By James Adams Children born small for gestational age and who show catch-up growth with a high body

Journal of Internal Medicine 10/17/2002 By Robert Short Autonomic nervous dysfunction is the most likely cause of defective glucagon secretory response to hypoglycaemia in type

10/16/2002 By Anne MacLennan White or black endometriotic lesions cannot be defined as “inactive” endometriosis and must be considered therapeutically relevant, say German researchers. In

A two-step screening protocol for type 2 diabetes, which incorporates both universal screening and screening tests targeted to high-risk subjects, has been well received by

By Susan Comninos NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 14 – MacroChem Corp. said on Friday that US regulators have halted trials of the firm’s topical