Repros Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqCM:RPRX) today announced that the Company is sending a reply to the FDA's Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products following the Company's receipt of FDA's comments on the proposed Phase II study of Androxal® (enclomiphene) in the treatment of Type II diabetes under Repros' open IND...

Diabetes affects nearly one in twenty adults. It is life-long condition and can be life-shortening. However, it is believed that between a third and a half of all medicines prescribed for long-term conditions are not taken as recommended...

We are looking for people to appear on our new online diabetes risk test. We provided online tests as part of our Measure Up and Silent Assassin awareness campaigns. But new scientific research means the test can now be even more accurate, so we are updating how we assess the risk of diabetes...

What do obesity, heart disease, depression, diabetes, and fibromyalgia have in common? The answer is vitamin D deficiency. More than 200 million Americans lack this essential vitamin and as a result suffer from a host of daily annoyances, chronic conditions, and even life-threatening illnesses...

Patients with type 2 diabetes are generally treated similarly despite the fact that they may have underlying differences that could affect their therapeutic response...

According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), regular moderate-intensity aerobic exercise led to a modest reduction in offspring birth weight without restricting the development of maternal insulin resistance...

The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) is urging the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, to come clean on 'both halves' of the diabetes capitation debate, saying while it agrees that patients who have a long-term care relationship with a general practice will achieve better health outcomes, it fears a pure capitation model could actually reduce doct...

As a benchmark for diagnosing diabetes, the importance of the A1C test must be reevaluated to improve glycemic numeracy of policy makers, patients and providers who must make real-world decisions. This is based on a commentary published by Wiley-Blackwell in the Journal of Diabetes. A1C represents the attachment of glucose to hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying protein in our red blood cells)...

Alpha cells in the pancreas, which do not produce insulin, can convert into insulin-producing beta cells, advancing the prospect of regenerating beta cells as a cure for type 1 diabetes. The findings come from a study at the University of Geneva, co-funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, that is published in the online edition of the scientific journal Nature...

Diabetes guidelines and their application in general practice is the focus of a new active learning module (ALM) from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). The online activity has been designed to help provide optimal primary care management to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus...