Diabetes News

The news about youth and diabetes keeps getting worse. The latest data shows that children with type 2 diabetes are at high risk to develop heart, kidney and eye problems faster and at a higher rate than adults with diabetes.

Picnics, parties and other outdoor events during grilling season can present a challenge for those with diabetes, a diabetes nutritional specialist says.

Zach Arn is checked by Dr. Ashley Jessup as he gets his diabetic check up at UNC's Children's Speciality Clinic in Raleigh on Wednesday.

Type 2 diabetes, a growing global health problem, has a complex etiology involving many interactions between genetic and environmental factors.

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From elementary school to high school, she has been able to count on a teacher, administrator or someone else to help her son Jonathan Mahmoud with his insulin shots when no school nurse was available -- the norm in California's budget-battered education system, where there's only one nurse for every 2,200 students.

On May 23, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the Tina-quant HbA1cDx assay is now approved for the diagnosis of diabetes .

The Physical Education Departments of Arthur L. Johnson High School and Carl H. Kumpf Middle School recently hosted its 4th annual American Diabetes Association's School Walk for Diabetes.

But the recent evidence does not show a consistent benefit and even shows harms associated with the use of IIT, according to the American College of Physicians' Clinical Guidelines Committee in a new evidence-based paper published today online in the American Journal of Medical Quality .

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , approximately one in 10 Americans is living with diabetes and one in three adults could have diabetes by 2050.

Smoking a blunt may keep off the bulge, according to a new study by the American Journal of Medicine.

Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk said it could launch obesity treatment liraglutide in the United States by the end of next year and rejected some analysts' doubts over the medicine's commercial potential.

If we're forced to wear and carry medical devices all the time, we can at least spice up our gadgets with some color and decorative accents, right? That's what motivated a Pittsburgh couple to design and create their own business aimed specifically at making vinyl skin covers for the OmniPod tubeless insulin pump, Dexcom G4 Platinum continuous ... (more)

The disease itself may not discriminate on the basis of gender , but when it comes to healthcare for patients with diabetes , women in India find themselves at a disadvantage compared with men.

A marijuana blood sugar study published by the American Journal of Medicine found that marijuana users have better blood sugar and smaller waists, a finding that adds diabetes prevention and weight control to the already well-known medicinal benefits of marijuana.

People who had used marijuana in the past month had smaller waists and lower levels of insulin resistance - a diabetes precursor - than those who never tried the drug, in a new study.

Certain statins -- the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs -- may increase your chances of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

Ethnic background plays a surprisingly large role in how diabetes develops on a cellular level, according to two new studies led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine .

Treatment with high potency statins may increase the risk of developing diabetes, suggests a paper published today in BMJ .

Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim and lower their risk of developing diabetes, according to the latest study, which suggests that cannabis compounds may help in controlling blood sugar.