July 1, 2009 — NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Heightened concern over the safety of new diabetes treatments is throwing significant roadblocks in front of their use and threatening to discourage development of drugs for the disease.

July 1, 2009 — MIAMI (Reuters) - Since 2006, U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $155,000 to send home health nurses to inject twice-daily insulin shots for an elderly, diabetic Miami man.

July 1, 2009 — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday.

July 1, 2009 — MIAMI (Reuters) - Since 2006, U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $155,000 to send home health nurses to inject twice-daily insulin shots for an elderly, diabetic Miami man.

June 30, 2009 — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dr. Louis Philipson has already started fielding calls from worried diabetics after new studies of 300,000 patients released on Friday suggested the Sanofi-Aventis insulin drug Lantus (insulin glargine) might raise the risk of cancer.