Diabetes News

Blood tests to detect diabetes are likely to be made compulsory at health centres across India following the internationally followed "opportunistic screening" norm.

There are minimal data assessing the relationship between diabetes with gallbladder, biliary and pancreatic cancer.

A teenager will have to sleep in hospital for the rest of her life because just one night out could kill her.

Echo Therapeutics, Inc. , a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system and the Prelude SkinPrep System for transdermal drug delivery, today announced positive results of a clinical study of its Symphony tCGM System in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.

Americans on average eat and drink about 22 teaspoons of sugar daily, which is almost three to four times more than the daily recommendations.

November 19, 2009 A-A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin - a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes - and core body temperature.

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It's welcome news to Dietitians of Canada that new initiatives to prevent and manage diabetes have recently been announced by the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and the Ministry of Health and Long Term.

Low birth weight increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

Last summer, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined who should receive the H1N1 vaccine when it became available -- including who should be given highest priority if there were limited doses.

Almost 24 million Americans are living with diabetes, and American Diabetes Association is calling it an epidemic.

Diabetic Care Services, a leading mail order provider of diabetes supplies and prescriptions, has partnered with the Kent State University nutrition department to offer holiday diabetes testing and nutrition tips.

Although the exact cause of pancreatic cancer is not known, certain risk factors can raise a person's chance of getting it.

Diabetes is an equal-opportunity disease; it strikes men and women, young and old.

He's an 84-year-old diabetic with one lung that doesn't work. She's his 84-year-old wife, a survivor of a nearly fatal aortic aneurysm.

SCOTTISH patients with severe diabetes could be freed from daily injections of insulin with the launch today of a groundbreaking new cell transplant service.

A moderate-fat diet may work better than a low-fat regimen for people suffering from metabolic syndrome, a collection of conditions putting them at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, new research finds.

Diabetes has increased among both men and women and in all age groups, but the disease still disproportionately affects the elderly.

As you begin to manage care for an aging loved one with diabetes, the demands can seem overwhelming -- from monitoring blood glucose levels and diet and exercise to meeting with health care professionals.

Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Mark Hlatky, MD.