Senator Edward Kennedy Honored With American Diabetes Association's Distinguished Service Achievement Award

Test Your Knowledge Issue 447

More and more of our patients using insulin are exercising and participating in sports. They often lower their basal rates or decrease their mealtime dose to try and compensate. This can lead to hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia after exercising. Why...

David Kliff, Publisher, Diabetic Investor, has been looking at the President-elect’s recent appointments and keeps wondering who will be the new head the Food and Drug Administration. Whoever it is will have an interesting road ahead of them.

The persistent difference in retinopathy complications between former intensive and conventional therapy for type 1 diabetes continues for years, but begins to decline within a decade, according to new data from the Epidemiology of Diabetes...

A new drug class is poised to make a splash in the diabetes market, according to a new report, "Diabetes Market Forecast to 2013"

A 2.5-mg dose of terbutaline at bedtime appears to prevent hypoglycemia during the night in patients with aggressively treated type 1 diabetes, without causing hyperglycemia the following morning, results of a pilot study indicate.

Persons with type 2 diabetes who had a diet high in low-glycemic foods such as nuts, beans and lentils had greater improvement in glycemic control and risk factors for coronary heart disease than persons on a diet with an emphasis on high-cereal fiber.

Significant weight loss achieved and maintained by diabetic subjects.

A too-fast heartbeat in early adulthood is a warning sign for increased risk of cardiovascular problems decades later on, a Japanese study suggests.

Researchers have discovered high doses of thiamine - vitamin B1 - can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease.

Scientists have identified 12 new genes that link gallstones and blood cholesterol levels, others link melatonin and sleep patterns to small increases in glucose levels and larger jumps in the risk of diabetes.

A new University of Illinois study suggests that we may pay a price for ingesting too much fructose. According to lead author Manabu Nakamura, dietary fructose affects a wide range of genes in the liver that had not previously been identified.

Elderly patients assigned to once-daily sitagliptin experienced significant reductions in blood glucose without the risk for hypoglycemia in a new study.

Diabetes and high levels of blood sugar may be linked to abnormalities in a person's body clock and sleep patterns, according to a genome-wide association study

Cranberry supplements are effective in reducing atherosclerotic cholesterol profiles.

Long-term use of a class of drugs for type 2 diabetes doubles a woman's risk of breaking a bone, research suggests.

Sugar as addictive as cocaine, heroin, studies suggest. Start your day with protein.

Long-term treatment with fenofibrate, a type of fibrate drug often used to lower cholesterol, does not reduce coronary plaques or signs of "atherosclerosis" in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a published report.