Diabetes News

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.

I'm sure you've heard before that the health and longevity of people in the Mediterranean was thanks to their olive oil, fish, and a whole grain-filled diet.

While April is the official " Defeat Diabetes Month ,"it also shares a calendar with Easter, one of many annual "Sugarfests" that encourages the consumption of chocolate bunnies, jelly beans and marshmallow peeps - a tradition of celebrating holidays with sweets that starts at a young age.

Good news for the nearly 26 million Americans who have diabetes! The American Diabetes Association has published three new cookbooks that can make creating great meals easy and fun.

On April 15, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the once-weekly injectable Type 2 diabetes medicine albiglutide , developed by GlaxoSmithKline .

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.