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Health providers helping Chinese-speaking Asian American immigrants with diabetes better control their disease to avoid complications need to do more than just have translators and bi-lingual staff…

Patients with diabetes mellitus are at risk of leg ulcers. These eventually become infected, respond poorly to treatment and often require amputation of…

People with type 2 diabetes who take sulfonylureas or insulin appear to be at increased risk of dying from cancer compared with their peers who take metformin, Canadian…

New research indicates that many U.S. children as young as 13 may have risk factors for type 2 diabetes, the form of the disease once considered a problem of older…

Two papers published in January by a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) report finding proteins that regulate insulin sensitivity and the ability of cells…

Bone mineral density (BMD) in premenopausal women with type1 diabetes, also referred to as juvenile, diabetes, is 3 percent to 8 percent lower than in women without diabetes,…

Young adults with generalized epilepsy of unknown origin have a four-fold excess risk of having type 1 diabetes, according to findings published in the Annals of Neurology.

Generalized epilepsies of…

Higher levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL), the “good” cholesterol, are associated with a lower risk of protein in the urine, a sign of kidney disease, in patients with long-standing type 1…

People with type 2 diabetes are often prescribed drugs to boost their production of insulin. The controversial belief that these so-called sulfonylurea drugs increase mortality in patients with diabetes now…

In certain patients with diabetes-related kidney disease, performing a transplant before the need for dialysis arises seems to be advantageous, researchers report.

“Preemptive transplantation remains an optimal form of kidney…

The findings from a study of ethnic Chinese subjects residing in Singapore support what has been shown in Western populations; diabetes is associated with an increased risk of colorectal…

People with diabetes are always exhorted to keep their blood sugar levels under control, but in some cases the advice might not be appropriate.

Contrary to what has been…

A single genetic change could predispose close to 40 percent of the population to type-2 diabetes, researchers said on Sunday.

The gene, identified in a study of Iceland’s comprehensive genetic records,…

Results of a study provide more evidence that engaging in regular physical activity before and during pregnancy reduces a woman’s risk developing pregnancy-induced diabetes (a.k.a. gestational diabetes).

A lack of exercise may…

This week’s New York Times’ in-depth series, “Bad Blood,” about the diabetes epidemic in New York City, is a compelling portrayal of New Yorkers struggling with the increased…

A survey of people with diabetes attending a clinic for the indigent found that they have little trust in the medical system, and that attitude is remarkably consistent for all the respondents.

The risk of cardiovascular disease is “moderately increased” in type 2 diabetics with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to Italian researchers.

Dr. Giovanni Targher and colleagues at Sacro Cuore Hospital…

Results of a new study do not support the notion that people who use complementary or alternative medicine (a.k.a., CAM) are less apt to use conventional “evidence-based” medical and preventive…

Pregnant women with diabetes tend to have abnormally large babies, but it seems that active fetuses manage to stay a relatively normal size, new research suggests.

While babies of…

The results of a new study may motivate couch potatoes to get moving in the New Year. According to the study, people who are physically active live longer…

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol appears to protect older women from developing type 2 or non-insulin-dependent diabetes, Dutch researchers report.

Although an association between alcohol use and reduced diabetes risk…

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered a molecular link between a high-fat, Western-style diet, and the onset of type 2 diabetes. In studies in mice,…

A team at the University of California at San Diego has identified a gene that produces an enzyme that enables cells in the pancreas to recognize glucose and secrete insulin.…

A new study, published in the December 29 issue of the journal Cell, reports the discovery of a molecular link between a high-fat, or Western-style, diet, and the…

Devices that deliver monochromatic infrared energy (MIRE) are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for certain uses, but it seems they are no better than placebo treatments in reducing…