A study in older adults has found that regular exercise may speed up the wound-healing process by as much as 25 percent.

Women with diabetes whose medical care includes quarterly consultations with their doctors and individualized goal setting tend to develop lower glycosylated hemoglobin levels (A1C) than those who receive routine care.

For well-functioning adults in their 70s, the ability to walk 400 meters (1/4 Mile) and the speed at which they walk are independent prognostic factors for mortality, cardiovascular disease and disability.

Why physicians and patients cannot reach BP targets less then 50% of the time.

This Weeks Cartoon by Theresa L. Garnero, ARNP, CDE. Issue 310

A new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has shown conclusively that two receptors in the insulin-producing beta cell do not affect developmental growth, refuting a long-held hypothesis in diabetes research.

Better Cognitive Performance Following A Low-Glycemic-Index Meal Vs A High-Glycemic Index Meal in Adults With Type 2 Keeping blood sugars as close to normal after a meal improves cognitive performance.

A team, led by Matthias von Herrath, M.D., an internationally recognized expert on the molecular basis of type 1 diabetes, used a combinatorial treatment approach in laboratory mice and found it reversed recent onset type 1 diabetes in the majority of animals tested.

Researchers have shown, for the first time, that blocking the action of a critical protein with etanercept can improve multiple inflammatory pathways in patients with the metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes.

An increase in diabetes of 41% in just 6 years and it is projected to get much worse with nothing in place to stop it!