A program that bundled two generic, lowcost drugs a cholesterollowering statin and a blood pressurelowering drug and gave daily doses to 68,560 people with diabetes or heart disease for two years is estimated to have prevented 1,271 heart attacks and strokes in the first year following the study period, according to a Kaiser [...]

A metaanalysis of five trials has shown that more intensive glucose control in type 2 diabetes leads to fewer heart attacks and heart disease events but has no significant effect on stroke or mortality from all causes. The findings are reported in an Article in this weeks diabetes special issue of The Lancet, written [...]