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Exposure to agricultural pesticides in the first-trimester increases a woman’s risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy, research shows.

Previous studies have examined the relationship between pesticides and diabetes,…

It is well known that people with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of pancreatic cancer, and now it seems that the risk extends to those with type…

Women with “pre-diabetes” may show signs of impending heart trouble long before the same warning signs show up in men, a new study suggests.

As its name implies, pre-diabetes…

Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, have found that for diabetic children who are able to maintain strict control of their blood sugar (glucose) with…

Changing how critically ill patients are treated with hydrocortisone could reduce hyperglycemia. The results of a randomized controlled clinical trial, published today in the journal Critical…

Researchers said on Sunday they had homed in on five areas of DNA that could account for 70 percent of the genetic risk for type 2 diabetes.

They identified…

In older patients with long-standing diabetes, toenails that are thickened and discolored often suggest a fungal infection, according to a presentation at the Council of Nail Disorders in…

Diabetes is the fifth deadliest disease in the United States and a growing epidemic worldwide. Now, researchers are finding evidence that chiropractic adjustments might be able to make a valuable contribution…

The nutritional status of patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease can be maintained or even improved before they begin hemodialysis. However, the nutritional status deteriorates in those who have…

A recent study by a Saint Louis University researcher confirms findings that about half of the U.S. population has a version of a gene that causes…

Popular drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction - Viagra, Levitra and Cialis - are safe and effective for men with diabetes, a new review has found.

The introduction…

Pharmacological and lifestyle interventions to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes mellitus in individuals with impaired glucose

Changing to a healthier lifestyle appears to be at least as…

Young children with type 1 diabetes tend to have adequate dietary intake of most micronutrients, according to results of a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic…

Adding a daily check of foot temperature with an infrared skin thermometer to standard diabetic foot therapy can significantly reduce the recurrence of foot ulcers, doctors in Texas and Chicago…

For older people with diabetes, the condition does not increase the likelihood that they’ll develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report in the medical journal Neurology. However, diabetes is associated…

Nerve cells in the pancreas may be a cause of type-1 diabetes in mice - a finding that could provide new ways to treat the disease in humans, Canadian and U.S. scientists…

A drug commonly used to slow the loss of central vision has shown promise in stemming a common precursor of blindness in diabetics, which involves the same central light-sensitive…

New research suggests that obese adults with diabetes often say they eat less than they actually do - a problem that can hinder management of the disease, according to researchers.

The cause of insulin-dependent, permanent, diabetes in newborn babies may be a deficiency in the enzyme Pancreatic Endoplasmic Reticulum Kinase (PERK) during a critical period of development before…

As simple a treatment as aspirin is one way to cut the more than $232 billion spent on diabetes each year and help prevent related deaths due to heart attacks…

“Real-time” continuous monitoring of blood sugar (glucose) may help improve glycemic control in patients with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes, according to findings published in the current issue of Diabetes Care.

Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease which until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said…

Within the next 10 years the EU-funded Diabetes Prevention study, part of an international study called TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), coordinated…

An Israeli study suggests that people who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing a form of diabetes.

The research, apparently the first of its…

People with diabetes who have repeated panic attacks are less likely to have properly managed the disease and suffer more severe health complications and poorer quality of life, a…