Year: 2014

By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bariatric weight loss surgery on obese patients with type 2 diabetes helped many to get their blood sugar to healthy levels and to no longer require any diabetes medicines, including insulin, three years after the procedure, according to data presented at a major medical meeting on Monday. The study called Stampede, which involved 150 obese patients who had poorly controlled type 2 diabetes for at least eight years, was conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. It compared two types of weight loss surgery against weight loss attained by diet and exercise along with nutrition counseling and, for some, additional diabetes medicines that can help promote weight loss, such as Victoza from Novo Nordisk.

Monday is the deadline to sign up for private health insurance in the new online markets created by President Barack Obama’s health care law. So far, about 4 out of every 5 people enrolling have qualified for tax credits to reduce the cost of their premiums.

There’s a better way to keep wrinkles at bay than spending tons of money on expensive creams, pills, and skin treatments. And you don’t need a prescription or “healing time.” Here are five foods that will help you have flawless skin:

There’s a better way to keep wrinkles at bay than spending tons of money on expensive creams, pills, and skin treatments. And you don’t need a prescription or “healing time.” Here are five foods that will help you have flawless skin:

GlaxoSmithKline on Monday withdrew an application to use Votrient, a drug licensed for kidney cancer, to treat advanced ovarian cancer after analysis of data from a late-stage trial did not support the benefit-to-risk ratio. GSK, which had applied for approval in Europe, said it would also not continue to develop the drug for advanced ovarian cancer in other countries. Votrient, which has the chemical name pazopanib, has been approved by many regulators as a treatment for advanced kidney cancer and some types of soft cell sarcomas.