Diabetes News

Buy this photo Dr John Sichel, centre, is retiring after 30 years at 28 Beaumont Street.

A Wilmington nurse is planning to scale Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness to a nonprofit searching for a cure for diabetes.

In his spare moments, physician Jeffrey Schelling likes to pour over his collection of vintage baseball cards, go birding or, with his wife Deb, enjoy modern art.

Here's the good news according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine : if you have diabetes, you're 67.8 percent less likely to die of a heart attack than you would have been in 1990.

Spreading the word: Jacky Scott is one of the volunteers getting behind the North East Lincolnshire Health And Wellbeing Collaborative's drive to make more people aware they could be at risk of developing diabetes.

Diabetes afflicts more than 22 million Americans, or 7% of the total population, and the number of people diagnosed every year is skyrocketing.

For people recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, eating lots of olive oil, fish and whole grains slows progression of the disease more than restricting fat, according to a new analysis.

Losing weight can be difficult, and while it is important to consult with dietitians and fitness experts, Joshua Hrabosky at Greenwich Hospital helps patients with the psychological aspects of weight loss.

"But we can put the information out there, show them how to administer self care, and hope the results are positive."

Millions of people are living with diabetes and new studies show while the number of cases continues to rise, patients are experiencing fewer complications.

Indiana University researchers have detected new early-warning signs of the potential loss of sight associated with diabetes.

First the bad news: The percentage of Americans with diabetes has doubled since 1988, with nearly one in 10 adults now diagnosed with the blood-sugar disease, according to a new study.

Lifespan, India's first chain of comprehensive diabetes and metabolic clinics, has launched a diabetes management app for Android devices.

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A 4-year-old boy from Fort Atkinson, diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes and autism, can't alert his parents of changes in his sugar levels and he needs a diabetic alert dog to help.

Sophie Tasker, pictured with her mother, Jackie, was one of the first people to be diagnosed by the Exeter team The lives of diabetes sufferers and their families across the world are being transformed by treatment pioneered at one of the South West's leading universities.

A few nights ago, my own middle daughter asked me to test her blood sugar. She was curious if her before-meal shakes might be hypoglycemia.

Headlight Photo From left are Kourtney Sexauer, FNP and medical director at the Deming Health Center and Kathryn Ritterbusch fo Presbyterian Medical Services, as they look over a flyer that they sent throughout the community on the Kitchen Creations Cooking Class to help citizens with diabetes eat healthier.

The rates of five serious complications from diabetes -- heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, amputations and death -- have all dropped dramatically since 1990, a new U.S. government study shows.