Statistics in Britain showed that almost 100 diabetes sufferers every week have a limb amputated due to complications with their disease. More than 2.3 million people in Britain have diabetes and an...

Is environmental pollution linked to type 2 diabetes? That's what Cambridge scientists want to find out. In the journal The Lancet, Drs. Oliver Jones and Julian Griffin highlight the need to...

In a laboratory mice study, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) nutrition scientists has shown (for the first time) that high levels of vitamin A can suppress development of type 1 diabetes. Common...

A biopharmaceutical company utilizing sophisticated mathematical models of human biology to discover and develop new drugs that treat and cure diabetes among other conditions - Entelos - has joint...

Scientific American has a special report on managing diabetes. We all know what a feat is the day-to-day activities of someone who cares for a diabetic or for a diabetic to live a life with diabetes....

Queens University (UK) researchers are looking for volunteers in a study of people with diabetes who own dogs. To be conducted by Dr. Deborah Wells and by Dr. Shaun Lawson, from the School of...

According to federal officials, death rates for black children with diabetes were twice as high as for white children during a 25-year period. Possible reasons? Gaps in medical care and information,...

Remember that India was recently named diabetes capital of the world? Because in India, there is a steadily increasing rates of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes that has become alarming for the...

Even with the help of medications and despite the decades of advances in diabetes care, when it comes to putting the blood sugar under control, middle-aged and older adults African-Americans and...

Sirtuin - proteins found in fat cells - may play a major role in the production and metabolism of fat, which offers new target for the development of treatments in the prevention of obesity and...

In Australia, a particularly bad flu season led to a sharp increase in diagnosed cases of type I diabetes. According to Dr Neville Howard of the Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney who...

So you thought pumpkins are only useful in fairy tales and on halloween? Not anymore, in fact pumpkin could potentially be the "godmother" of insulin replacement or alternative that people...

What: American Diabetes Association (ADA)'s 67th Scientific Sessions When: 22-26 June, 2007 Where: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The program begins at 2:00 pm on Friday (June 22) and ends at 12:15 pm...

A potential new target for treating type 2 diabetes has been discovered by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The said target is a protein (and its molecular partner)...

I already wrote about the possibility of gastric bypass surgery to help overweight diabetics get rid of the condition. Now, the BUPA Foundation has awarded a £93,000 grant to scientists of the...

The University of Florida is conducting a trial of oral insulin in 14 medical centers across the United States. The said oral insulin can hopefully prevent type 1 diabetes in people who are at risk of...

If you a have a diabetic family member in a nursing home, you might want to carefully read this and check out the care management in the nursing home of your choice. According to a research finding...

The effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men, the effect being more pronounced in older women (over age 65)....

Researchers reported in last week's issue of the British Medical Journal that taking prescription drugs for the treatment of diabetes cannot be justified. On the context of argument that lifestyle...