Research promoting a painless new method for detecting diabetes, utilizing saliva, will be revealed Friday, May 15, at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 18th Annual Meeting…

A drug used to reduce sugar levels in diabetics appears to be useful in delaying or even preventing the disease in people predisposed to developing diabetes, a study in Japan…

The results of a study published in the American Journal of Medicine suggest there is an association between aspirin use and a decreased risk of developing type…

Researchers at Université Laval’s Faculty of Medicine have found that people who sleep too much or not enough are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes…

People with type 1 diabetes who got stem cell transplants were able to go as long as four years without needing insulin treatments, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

They said…

The use of pancreatic islets (hormone-producing cells) is increasing in diabetes research and may play an important role in future treatments, according to an article in the…

Bezafibrate, a drug widely used in the UK to treat high cholesterol, appears to also prevent or delay the development of type 2 diabetes, according to results of…

Middle-aged and older adults who drink diet soda everyday may have a heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

The study, of more than 5,000…

A larger hip circumference is associated with a reduced risk of diabetes and heart disease, hints new research published this month.

Among 10,767 people who were followed from 1987 to…

Diets rich in saturated and trans fats and low in polyunsaturated fats are associated with thinking or “cognitive” problems in women with diabetes, according to new report.

Prior research has…

A Web-based program can help people with type 2 diabetes become more active, a pilot study shows.

More than 60 percent of people with type 2 diabetes don’t meet recommendations…

A program that gets employers, pharmacists and people with diabetes to work together to reign in skyrocketing diabetes-related health care costs as well as improve patient health is showing promise, according to…

There appears to be an increased awareness of the need to get our nation’s youth moving and eating well—schools are taking a critical look at the…

It has so far not been proven that long-acting insulin analogues (LAIAs) have an advantage over conventional human insulin in the treatment of patients…

People with type 2 diabetes who are trying to bulk up on fiber may need to pay closer attention to their calcium intake as well, a small study suggests.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a pair of plain-language guides for consumers and clinicians comparing the efficacy, effectiveness, and side effects of newer premixed…

People with diabetes who feel they have better control over life events are more likely to take good care of themselves and to believe they have the condition…

Scientists in China are reporting development of a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice custom-designed for millions of individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions that involve abnormally…

The amount of calcium your body absorbs might depend, in part, on the amount of dietary fiber you consume.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report that patients with…

Heart bypass surgery may be less dangerous for older patients with diabetes than angioplasty, researchers reported on Thursday.

Overall, there was not much difference, they reported in the Lancet medical…

New research shows that type 2 diabetes occurs significantly more often in Native Hawaiians, Latinos, African-Americans, and Japanese-Americans than in whites, regardless of body weight - suggesting, the researchers…

Treatment with fenofibrate, a cholesterol-lowering drug, reduces the risk of heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes and components of the metabolic syndrome, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.

A new risk score developed using medical records from more than 3 million people accurately predicts the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes within 10 years, researchers report.

The assessment tool,…

The prevalence of diabetes is at least twice as high in some ethnic groups as it is in whites, even among people with similar body mass index (BMI) numbers,…

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in…