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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…

Alcohol uses may increase type 2 diabetes and glucose intolerance risk, but smoking does not.

In a recent report, researchers in Japan conducted a study “to…

With the epidemic of obesity in the United States leading to a greater incidence of diabetes among youth, a…

Diabetes and hyperlipidemia increase diffusionweighted imaging lesion risk during invasive therapy of the carotid artery.

According to recent research published in the journal Neurological Research,…

Dairy products may reduce type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease risk.

According to a recent review from Netherlands, “Diet is important in the prevention and treatment…

University of Florida researchers have discovered the appetite-controlling hormone leptin could also combat type 2 diabetes, a disease that has become a growing problem in the United States as more Americans…

Short or poor quality sleep is associated with reduced control of blood-sugar levels in African Americans with diabetes, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the Sept.…