Researchers have reported that patients given a specific combination of new blood pressure drugs are one-third less likely to develop diabetes than those on older pills.

Treatment of high blood sugar may have a scientific connection to memory loss that could, one day, benefit millions of people with Alzheimer’s Disease, which affects up to 4.5 million older Americans, bringing with it impaired thinking and memory.

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers say that pomegranate juice may provide important health benefits for diabetic patients. According to results published in the August 2006 issue of Atherosclerosis, subjects who drank 180 ml (6 oz.) of pomegranate juice per day for three months experienced a reduced risk for atherosclerosis, a …

A four-year study of elderly women has found that chronically elevated blood sugar is associated with an increased risk of developing either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia.

With the introduction of just four factors, researchers have successfully induced differentiated cells taken from embryos to behave like embryonic stem cells. The researchers reported their findings in an immediate early publication of the journal Cell, published by Cell Press.

While glucagon secretion is normally triggered by hypoglycemia and inhibited as glucose levels rises, it has now been shown that very high glucose levels paradoxically stimulate glucagon secretion

Researchers have made a breakthrough which could eventually help prevent people developing diabetes.

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, announced positive results from a recent 16-week study evaluating the safety and efficacy of adding SYMLIN®) (pramlintide acetate) to an established regimen of basal insulin glargine (with or without oral antidiabetic agents) in patients with type 2 diabetes who have not progressed to mealtime insulin therapy.

Three or four short, brisk walks throughout the day can be more helpful to people watching their blood pressure than one continuous bout of exercise, Indiana University researchers report.

Patients with diabetes and elevated fasting blood sugars have less capacity to exercise.