Physicians may be able to identify individuals with preclinical type 1 diabetes, and to assess the effectiveness of therapies.

New Research now provides new information on the early steps in the development of IR and suggests why insulin-resistant people easily gain weight.

High blood levels of a hormone called adiponectin are associated with improved sugar

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected a consumer group’s petition to withdraw Abbott Laboratories Inc.’s obesity drug Meridia (sibutramine).

Researchers have found that patients with diabetes who require surgery for ankle fractures have significantly higher rates of complications and higher hospital costs compared with non-diabetic patients.

Intensive insulin therapy safeguards the endothelium of critically ill patients and improves survival.

Autoantibodies directed against autonomic nerves are associated with the subsequent development of cardiac and peripheral autonomic neuropathy in diabetic patients.

A link between consumption of coffee and caffeine and a risk of type-2 diabetes has been bandied about for some time, but a new research suggests that the relationship may be age- and weight-loss related.

Doctors Prompted by Trained Nurses Improves Rates of Counseling for Diabetes PreventionInvolving nurses in diabetes prevention with simple prompts can lead to improved outcomes.

Coronary arteries are less likely to reclog in patients who receive stents coated with the drug sirolimus (Cypher; Cordis, Johnson & Johnson) the results of three newly published studies suggest that the difference appears to be more pronounced in patients with diabetes.