A fourth of patients received inappropriate doses of direct oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation in a prospective study, for reasons sometimes related to use or nonuse of certain other drugs.
Study of 1863 Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes on insulin showed 48% developed clinically meaningful antibodies to insulin. Antibody levels were linked with the type of insulin and oral agents used.
While obesity often puts people at risk for numerous diseases, geneticists from the University of Exeter say the overriding predictor of whether someone will develop these issues are their genes.