Diabetes Alert Day: Are You at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes?
Today is the 26th annual American Diabetes Association (ADA) Alert Day, an opportunity to help raise awareness around type 2 diabetes and encourage people to take this quick ADA test to determine if...
View ArticleAZ Research Presented at American Diabetes Association Meeting
By John Yee, MD, MPH, Vice President, Head of Medical Affairs, US Diabetes Every year, researchers come together at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions, where the latest...
View ArticleFit2Me Diabetes Support Program Helps Patients Manage Type 2 Diabetes
Recognizing that each person with type 2 diabetes is unique, AstraZeneca recently launched Fit2Me™, a free diet and lifestyle support program that allows people with this complex disease to create a...
View ArticleAlert Day: Don’t Be a Risk Taker
Of the nearly 30 million people in the United States with diabetes, a quarter of them don’t even know they have the disease; that’s 8 million people! This is quite serious since many of these...
View ArticleAZ and Sutter Health form Research Collaboration
As part of our commitment to improving the lives of patients, AstraZeneca has teamed up with not-for-profit Sutter Health for a three year research and innovation collaboration, through which we will...
View ArticleDiabetesSisters: Empowering Women with Diabetes
Being diagnosed with diabetes as a young woman in the early 1990s, I was astounded by the lack of services and resources available to women like me. Facing a new and complex diagnosis as a teenager, I...
View ArticleHelp Manage Type 2 Diabetes with AZ Patient Support Programs
Managing type 2 diabetes can be challenging, if not sometimes overwhelming. With more than 29 million Americans living with diabetes, AstraZeneca has developed a number of resources that help people...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 Years of Exenatide: The First GLP-1 RA Treatment Option
In 2005, a new medication was approved as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Headlines over the...
View ArticleEmpowering People to Improve Heart Health
People have the power to improve heart health. It’s a simple phrase, but one that seems to falter against such an intractable, national burden like cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death...
View ArticleAstraZeneca ‘Links Up’ Diabetes Online Community for Influencer Event
People with diabetes have built one of the most active and robust online communities of any patient group – so much, in fact, that they’re widely known online as the #DOC (Diabetes Online Community)....
View ArticleConfronting Type 2 Diabetes, a National Epidemic
The statistics are staggering: healthcare experts say that diabetes – the chronic disease that affects more than 29 million Americans today – has reached epidemic proportions. The cost of diabetes in...
View Article5 Ways Fit2Me Can Help You Make Lifestyle Changes in 2016
With the New Year upon us, you may be contemplating making lifestyle changes to live healthier and take better care of your type 2 diabetes. That’s terrific – however, as you choose the changes you...
View ArticleDr. Phil’s 6 Rules to Help Manage Type 2 Diabetes
With nearly 28 million Americans living with type 2 diabetes and another 86 million at risk for developing it, many are facing hurdles keeping them from committing to a plan and could use some guidance...
View ArticleWhy People with Type 2 Diabetes Should Start a Walking Program
Today, more than 145 million adults in the United States include walking as part of a physically active lifestyle, and this staple exercise continues to grow in popularity. After all, walking can be...
View ArticleAsking Congress to Get “ON IT” for Diabetes
At AstraZeneca, we believe that real progress in improving type 2 diabetes outcomes starts with supporting patients in multiple ways, such as improving access to our medicines, providing educational...
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