Diabetes News

People who get less than six hours' sleep in the night are at a higher risk of suffering from a stroke, developing type 2 diabetes and high BP, say researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The pancreas: type 1 diabetes is caused when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin because the necessary beta-cells have been destroyed by the body's immune system.

Health coach Linda England, RN, from left, patient Betty Neve, and Dr. Afreen Pappa, review test results at the Javani Center for Wellness.

Researchers argue that medicine focuses too much on fighting diseases individually instead of concentrating on interventions that prevent multiple chronic diseases and extend healthy lifespan.

Two new Virginia bills require schools to allow students with diabetes the option of carrying supplies with them while at school.

The popular culinary herbs oregano and rosemary are packed with healthful compounds, and now lab tests show they could work in much the same way as prescription anti-diabetic medication, scientists report.

A PIONEERING treatment to prevent blindness that could save the NHS A 1bn a year is being launched this week by a small firm in the North-East.

Upton Sinclair once said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

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Weight loss over two years is associated with reduced diabetes incidence and improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors, according to a study published online July 14 in Diabetes Care .

Dennis Scanlon, PharmD , opened by describing the ACO, or accountable care organization, as "the hottest 3-letter word in healthcare."

CRI President and 17th U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, understands diabetes from many perspectives, including its economic burden for the nation and the emotional toll it takes on patients.

Pictured here are staff members from the Center for Nutrition and Diabetes Management, located in the Wescott Medical Arts Building, 9100 Wescott Drive, Suite 102, Flemington.

THEY'VE CAN OVERDOSE IN -- THEY CAN OVERDOSE ON CAFFEINE. MARYLAND CAN BE REALLY HOT AND HUMID IN THE SUMMERTIME TIME.

Life with diabetes can be complicated. Checking your blood glucose every day, taking medication or injecting insulin, monitoring your food intake to account for the proper carbohydrate intake, getting the right nutrients, checking your feet and exercising are daily occurrences for the person with diabetes.

For people who don't already know, here's the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes: the body produces little or no insulin in the case of type 1, and isn't able to utilize the insulin that it does produce in type 2. It's a significant difference, so it's important that patients are diagnosed correctly.

As the global prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to increase rapidly, with more than 366 million diabetics worldwide, hemoglobin A1c testing is now an essential assay in the diabetes testing repertoire.

Standard diabetes prevention advice is not getting through to - or even worse, is letting down - millions of North Americans.

The electronic version of the article was released in late spring with the print version due out this month.

Sierra Sandison has become a role model for many since she took the Miss Idaho crown after learning to embrace her diabetes diagnosis with pride.