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MAJOR DEPRESSION
Major depression is the most severe form of depression. 

The essential feature of major depression is depressed mood, or loss of interest in usual activities, which is experienced most of the…

STRESS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CONTROL
Psychological stress has significant effects on the metabolism on individuals without diabetes by increasing counterregulatory hormones,  which could result in elevated blood sugars, among other impacts.…

INTRODUCTION
This section briefly discusses the social and cultural forces that are driving up both obesity and type 2 diabetes rates to epidemic levels in the United States.

It…

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF GLUCOSE COUNTER-REGULATION
While marked hyperinsulinemia alone can cause hypoglycemia, iatrogenic hypoglycemia is the result of the interplay of relative or absolute insulin excess and compromised physiological and behavioral defenses against…

It is not possible to specify a plasma glucose concentration that defines clinical hypoglycemia in people with diabetes because the glycemic thresholds for the manifestations of hypoglycemia shift to higher than normal glucose…

Hypoglycemia: The Limiting Factor
Comprehensive treatment, including glycemic control, makes a difference for people with diabetes. Glycemic control prevents or delays the microvascular complications - retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy - of…

Diabetes can make the beautifully stratified retina look like over-fried bacon.

A drug known for it pain-relieving power and believed to stimulate memory appears to prevent this retinal damage that…

Men with type 2 diabetes know the basics about the disease and its main complications - heart disease, blindness, kidney failure - but they seem to know very…

U.S. biotechnology company Xoma Ltd said Monday that a single dose of its experimental antibody has been shown in early-stage trials to improve blood sugar control in patients with…

With over 60 million Americans diagnosed with prediabetes, putting them at increased risk for diabetes, cardiovascular events and other obesity-related ailments, finding ways to help large populations avoid these complications is…

People with lower levels of vitamin D in their blood may be at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research published in the journal Epidemiology this month.

The therapeutic challenge for nutrition for type 2 diabetes is not only for glucose control,  but to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce the level of risk factors for…

Pregnancy may be associated with several ocular changes, including the development of new ocular conditions or modifications of existing conditions. The most common ocular condition modified by…

Various factors influence the progression of diabetic retinopathy in pregnancy. They include the pregnant state itself, duration of diabetes, degree of retinopathy at conception, metabolic control before and…

As mentioned previously, diabetic retinopathy has a high regression rate in the end of pregnancy or in the postpartum period. The DCCT’s ancillary study was able to assess for any…

Young men with type 2 diabetes have significantly low levels of testosterone, endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo have found - a condition that could have a…

Babies delivered by Caesarean section have a 20 per cent higher risk than normal deliveries of developing the most common type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study led…

Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by scientists at UT Southwestern…

At the 1st World Congress for Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, prominent endocrinologists from around the world will convene in an exchange with leading surgeons…

Inorganic arsenic, commonly found in ground water in certain areas, may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…