As simple a treatment as aspirin is one way to cut the more than $232 billion spent on diabetes each year and help prevent related deaths due to heart attacks…

“Real-time” continuous monitoring of blood sugar (glucose) may help improve glycemic control in patients with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes, according to findings published in the current issue of Diabetes Care.

Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease which until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said…

Within the next 10 years the EU-funded Diabetes Prevention study, part of an international study called TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), coordinated…

An Israeli study suggests that people who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing a form of diabetes.

The research, apparently the first of its…

People with diabetes who have repeated panic attacks are less likely to have properly managed the disease and suffer more severe health complications and poorer quality of life, a…

The antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) in pill form improves diffuse nerve pain or “polyneuropathy” in patients with diabetes, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.

A recent pooled analysis showed that daily…

Both body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference appear to be useful in predicting cardiovascular risk and metabolic abnormalities in people who are insulin resistant, a prediabetic condition, according to…

A team of scientists in Britain are in the process of developing an artificial pancreas for children and teens with type 1 diabetes.

The device if successful promises…

Yogurt enriched with fruit or made from soy could play an important dietary role for people living with Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, suggests new…

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers have found that an enzyme called ACE2 may hold the potential to treat diabetic kidney disease, the most common…

A generation ago, there was just one kind of pill that could help people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels down. But today, so…

Combining resistance training, such as weight lifting, with aerobic workouts appears to be the most beneficial for type for long-term control of blood sugar control than either form of exercise alone,…

Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the beverage, a new study shows.

This “striking” protective effect was seen in…

In diabetic patients with hypertension, ACE inhibitors reduce the risk of developing diabetes-related kidney disease, independent of their effect in lowering blood pressure, reports…

A new obesity pill that helps control blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes could provide a novel way to treat the illness, a team of international researchers said on…

Carrying two copies of a common variant of a particular gene doubles your chances of developing diabetes and puts you in a similar risk category to being clinically obese, according…

Although treatment with the anti-diabetes drug metformin has greatly improved the prognosis of adults with type 2 diabetes, it appears to be associated with an increased risk of vitamin…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. has granted approval for a new drug to treat adults with type 2 diabetes.

The new drug, Januvia (sitagliptin…

The risk-benefit ratio for pioglitazone in the treatment of type 2 diabetes is unclear, according to a review of clinical trials, appearing in the October 18th online issue of…

A new type of diabetes drug that helps the body control blood sugar won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, the agency said on Tuesday.

Merck & Co. Inc.‘s…

When screening identifies people with type 2 diabetes, they usually experience little anxiety in the first years after the diagnosis. However, early and intensive treatment seems to lead to higher anxiety…

About 21 percent of individuals with diabetes do not regularly take their blood-sugar lowering, blood-pressure lowering or cholesterol-lowering pills, researchers found in study of 11,532 diabetes patients.

The study…

About one in every 523 children and adolescents in the United States had physician-diagnosed diabetes in 2001, according to estimates from a major national study called SEARCH for Diabetes…

The antipsychotic medication olanzapine is associated with type-2 diabetes onset in patients.

According to a study from the United States, “This study compared the 1-year incidence of…