Screen-And-Treat to Prevent Diabetes Doomed to Fail

Screening must be supplemented by broader public health approaches. Screen and treat strategies to prevent type 2 diabetes are doomed to failure, according to a large new systematic review and meta-analysis published in The BMJ.  Instead, the authors said and outside experts agreed, any effort to combat the already enormous and still growing problem of type 2…

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FDA Expands Metformin Label

— The diabetes drug can now be used in more patients with reduced kidney function The FDA on Friday greatly expanded the indication for the type 2 diabetes drug metformin. Until now use of metformin in patients with reduced kidney function had not been recommended. The new label states that metformin “can be used safely…

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