United States Dementia Cases Estimated to Double by 2060
On Jan. 13, 2025, a study led by NYU Langone Health shows that the risk of developing dementia at…
FDA Approved First Medication for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
On Dec. 20, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Eli Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatide) for the…
FDA updates Definition of “Healthy Foods” For Packaging, first time in three decades
On Dec. 19, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it had updated the definition of “healthy…
AARP and Leading Research Organizations Announced Risk Factors of Dementia Research Findings
On Nov. 15, 2024, the AARP, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), and the Institute for…
Urgent action needed as global diabetes cases increase four-fold over past decades
On Nov. 13, 2024, the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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UW–Madison researchers find persistent problems with AI-assisted genomic studies
On Nov. 4, 2024, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers warned that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity…
Restricting sugar before birth and in early childhood greatly reduces risk of chronic disease later in life
On Nov. 1, 2024, researchers reported results from a study that show a low-sugar diet during pregnancy and…
Tuberculosis resurges as top infectious disease killer
On Oct. 29, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2…
Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
On Sept. 26, 2024, a team of scientists in Peking University in Beijing, China announced that a 25-year-old…
Cleveland Clinic Study Identified Key Factors That Can Impact Long-Term Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity Prescribed GLP-1 RA Medications
On Sep. 13, 2024, a Cleveland Clinic study was announced that identified key factors that can impact the…
Study Revealed How COVID-19 Infection Can Cause or Worsen Diabetes
On Sept. 13, 2024, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine have used a cutting-edge model system to uncover the…
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Human ‘Molecular Map’ Contributes to the Understanding of Disease Mechanisms
On Sep. 10, 2024, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar announced they had created a free-to-access online…
Lilly opened state-of-the-art research and development center in the Boston Seaport
On Aug. 13, 2024, Eli Lilly announced the opening of the Lilly Seaport Innovation Center (LSC), a research…
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Nearly 1.8 billion adults at risk of disease from not doing enough physical activity
On Jun. 26. 2024, the World Health Organization reported that new data show that nearly one third (31%)…
In a first, genetically edited pig kidney was transplanted into a human
On Mar. 21, 2024, Harvard Medical School physician-scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had successfully transplanted a…
FDA approved first treatment for patients with liver scarring due to fatty liver disease
On Mar. 14, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Madrigal Pharmaceuticals’ Rezdiffra (resmetirom) for the treatment…
University of Illinois and Universidade de Sao Paulo develop first transgenic cow to produce human insulin in her milk
On Mar. 13, 2024, an unassuming brown bovine from the south of Brazil has made history as the…
Wegovy received FDA approval for cardiovascular risk reduction in adults with known heart disease or obesity
On Mar. 8, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new indication for use of Novo…
FDA cleared first Over-the-Counter continuous glucose monitor
On Mar. 5, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing the first over-the-counter (OTC) continuous…
FDA approved new medication for chronic weight management
On Nov. 8, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatide) injection for chronic…
Milestones in Diabetes
Milestones in Diabetes illustrates major milestones from the first administration of the hormone insulin in 1921 to a…
IHME reported global diabetes cases to soar from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050
On Jun. 22, 2023, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) reported that more than half a…
U.S. FDA approved new class of medicines to treat pediatric type 2 diabetes
On Jun. 20, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Boehringer Ingelheim’s Jardiance (empagliflozin) and Synjardy…
Large-scale genetic analysis showed microRNAs in human pancreas associated with diabetes
On Feb. 9, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that a new large-scale genetic analysis found…
FDA approved first drug that can delay onset of Type 1 Diabetes
On Nov. 17, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) injection to delay the…
Researchers identified a pathway by which chronic hyperglycaemia reduces cell function
On Nov. 14, 2022, researchers discovered the pathway by which chronic hyperglycaemia reduces β-cell function. Their data also…
Benaroya Research Institute received $11.4 million to explore link between viruses and immune system diseases
On Jun. 17, 2022, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) announced a 5-year, $11.4 million grant from…
International team createed first complete fruit fly cell atlas
On Mar. 9, 2022, Harvard Medical School announced that an international research team had completed an atlas of…
Vibativ effectively helped treat secondary bacterial infections in COVID-19 patients
On Jun. 21, 2021, Cumberland Pharma released a series of case reports describing the effectiveness of Vibativ (telavancin)…
FDA approved new drug treatment for chronic weight management, first since 2014
On Jun. 4, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) injection (2.4 mg…