Patients in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) could benefit from the CICU health care team using a daily checklist to prevent infections and other common complications. According to a new American ...

Routine placement of atrial leads is common during implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation for primary prevention despite guidelines that discourage it—now there are new ...

John A. Johnson, MD, MBA: The microvascular complications of diabetes include anything from effects on [a patient’s] blood pressure, peripheral neuropathy, the ability to have abnormalities in their ...

An alarming lack of compliance with assessments to prevent ophthalmologic and neuropathic complications associated with diabetes has been detected in nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

CHICAGO, Illinois — Metformin treatment may improve pregnancy outcomes for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), but it doesn't prevent gestational diabetes and its long-term effects on the ...

Early treatment of pediatric Crohn’s disease with anti-tumor necrosis factor medications can substantially reduce the risk of perianal fistulas, a particularly debilitating complication of Crohn’s ...

Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A preventative medicine study is claiming, according to reports, the best way to prevent coronavirus ...

More than 1 in 3 adults in the United States have prediabetes — and many of them don’t know it. National Diabetes Month is a time to raise awareness about diabetes as an important public health issue ...