Most of the time we are treating patients with type 2 diabetes, and sometimes we lose sight of our type 1 patients. The majority of these patients develop type 1 at a young age and are referred to a pediatric endocrinologist for treatment. These patients often stay with this clinician …

"Dear Roommate" Letter  Many of our diabetes patients are starting or returning to college and that means new experiences and new friends or roommates. This week’s tool is a "Dear Roommate" letter that you can give to your patients to help them explain their disease to their new friends and …

An estimated 25.8 million Americans, or 8.3% of the population, have diabetes and almost a third of those don’t know it, the CDC said. Another 79 million people have prediabetes, with high fasting glucose or HbA1c levels but not quite at the frank diabetes level, the agency said in its …

Price is the primary factor in customers choosing a company — except in health care, where personal experience with doctors or hospitals is more important. Consumers who have become accustomed to the customer-focused practices adopted by hotels, banks and retailers increasingly are judging physicians by those standards. Medicare and other …

Cholesterol levels have improved slightly among American youth over the past two decades, according to new government data. From 1988 to 2010, the rate of high total cholesterol dropped from 11% to 8% in children ages 6 to 19. The levels of LDL cholesterol and fats in the blood also …

Normal-weight adults with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes had a significantly greater mortality risk than their overweight counterparts, a pooled analysis of five large cohort studies showed….

The hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level that was associated with an increased prevalence of retinopathy was significantly lower in blacks than in whites….

Study found vaccine triggered death of rogue immune-system cell, and beta-cells kicked in….

At its most fundamental level, diabetes is a disease characterized by stress — microscopic stress that causes inflammation and the loss of insulin production in the pancreas, and system-wide stress due to the loss of that blood-sugar-regulating hormone….

Boosting levels of the vitamin might help prevent type 2 diabetes for obese individuals who find it difficult to lose weight….