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Even though diabetes is a major health problem in the country, Americans earned a failing grade on diabetes awareness in a survey released Nov.

Diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of moderate and severe vision loss in working-age Americans.

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Photograph by: Julie Oliver, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA -- Bronwyn Cruden's battle to win back a foreign-aid posting in Afghanistan - which she lost because her type 1 diabetes was deemed a risk - probably won't garner massive public support.

Miami, Florida - As charities and non-profits struggle in difficult economic times, many are seeking new approaches to improve their fundraising efforts.

Megan Davis checks her insulin pump after taking her blood sugar level. The Ferris High School sophomore was diagnosed at age 9 with Type 1 diabetes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that counting related illnesses the number of deaths from the H1N1 virus is about four times earlier estimates.

Main Category: Heart Disease Also Included In: Diabetes ; Cardiovascular / Cardiology ; Stroke Article Date: 18 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST 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 ...

KineMed, Inc., a translational and personalized medicine development company, announced today that the company has received an investigator initiated study grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.

The incidence of Type 2 diabetes has increased significantly over the last two decades, affecting both women and men alike.

The latest estimates peg the number of people in the United States with diabetes at more than 24 million or almost 8 percent of the nation's total population.

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.