For elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, continuous infusion of a hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) appears to help control glucose levels in the blood without the danger of lowering glucose too far.

Study shows dairy products for children keep weight down. Only 30 percent of children get the minimum recommended amount of dairy products.

The Cleveland Clinic reports that its researchers have developed a new blood test to find if a person is in danger of a heart attack or death.

During National Diabetes Month, we recognize advancements in preventing, treating, and detecting this disease, and we renew our commitment to helping Americans with diabetes live longer, healthier lives.

Diabetics have lower cessation rates than others.

Insulin-dependent diabetics have an impaired cerebral vasodilatory response to hypercapnia under propofol anesthesia, and the impairment is related to the severity of diabetes.

New research confirms at least one common statin and probably most off the statins may be most effective when taken at night as opposed to the morning.

Severe obesity is associated with a high risk for depression, especially those with diabetes and among young women with poor body image. However, depression improves with loss of weight.

In diabetics, intensive control of blood sugar levels seems to slow the progression of kidney disease many years after such control has ended, new research shows.

Now, new research has shown that grafts derived from a patient’s skin cells can help some diabetic ulcers heal faster, These findings come from a study, published in the current issue of Diabetes Care, that compared such grafts with standard gauze dressings in 79 diabetics with ulcers on the top …