Diabetes News

Bariatric surgery has positive effects not only on weight loss but also on diabetes and heart disease.

REPORT AND A RESPONSE ON KSAT.COM. BEFORE PEOPLE DEVELOP TYPE 2 DIABETES, THEY GO THROUGH A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE THEIR BLOOD GLUCOSE NUMBERS ARE ABOVE NORMAL BUT NOT ENOUGH TO BE DIABETES.

TUESDAY, April 22, 2014 -- Low blood sugar levels -- known as hypoglycemia -- in people with diabetes may cause potentially dangerous changes in heart rate , according to a small new study.

Hemoglobin A1c is the standard measurement for assessing glycemic control over time in people with diabetes.

Nearly 1 million Latinas aren't aware that they are at risk of developing diabetes.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

A New York jury has heard a broadcast interview in which an Egyptian cleric defended the Sept.

R&B star Usher has been paying closer attention to his son's diet after he was diagnosed with diabetes.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25.8 million people suffered from diabetes in 2010 with 90-95% of all cases of type 2. The costs associated directly and indirectly, i.e. missed work, to this disease was 174 billion dollars in 2007.

There is no shortage of numbers on how diabetes affects people. According to ADA data from 2011, 25.8 million children and adults had diabetes in the United States.

"A Lot On Our Plate: Chronic Health Threats in Massachusetts" was the Institute's fifth Family Impact Seminar, which attracts legislators and officials from various state and private agencies.

Rates of five major diabetes-related complications have declined substantially in the last 20 years among U.S. adults with diabetes, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to data from Express Scripts , the nation spent 14% more on diabetes drugs in 2013 than it did in 2012.

Washington University students are working to educate and raise awareness about diabetes within the student body, which they say often holds misconceptions about the disease.

But just how the canines can do the work appears to remain a mystery. According to the American Diabetes Association's "Diabetes Forecast," scientists believe the dogs pick up on a related scent released by the diabetic, but they have not figured what that scent is.

A Montreal Grade 11 student has been recognized with a top provincial science fair prize for her work on a protein that could provide a more effective treatment for diabetes.

The goal of blood pressure in the hypertensive patient with diabetes is defined: now the challenge is go from recommendations to practice.

Three Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers have been awarded two-year grants for their work on potential treatments for diabetes , Novo Nordisk announced this month.

A new federal study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that heart attacks and deaths from diabetes dropped by more than 60 percent between 1990 and 2010.

Studies on the link between diabetes and bladder cancer in Asians are rare. We investigated the association between diabetes and incidence of bladder cancer by using a large national insurance database.