Patients with diabetes may have cardiac defects that put them at risk of a heart attack — even before they show any symptoms, according to a poster presentation at the 18th International Diabetes Foundation Congress.

80 years after the discovery of insulin, a significant number of people around the world with diabetes die because they don’t have access to the life-saving drug.

Should people really care that they digest potatoes faster than carrots? A carb is a carb is a carb. Yes, say the proponents of the Glycemic Index. No, say other nutritional experts,

Current diabetes screening guidelines are effective, and if followed, could catch virtually all new cases, study findings indicate.

A blood test given during the first trimester of pregnancy helps doctors predict which women will develop diabetes later on.

High-dose thiamine and its lipid-soluble derivative benfotiamine inhibits the development of incipient nephropathy in a rat model of diabetes.

Start on Insulin not sulfonylurea for better control and save beta cells. Study Suggests It Helps Patients Maintain Metabolic Control. For patients recently diagnosed with adult-onset (i.e., type 2) diabetes, insulin treatment achieves better results than does therapy with oral medication, Swedish researchers report.

Losartan may better protect diabetics against cardiac death from arrhythmias than atenolol.

Over 300 million now have Pre-Diabetes and expected to grow to 472 million says, the President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), who is calling for changes in eating habits and lifestyle.

Administration of usual therapeutic doses of gemfibrozil considerably increases the plasma concentrations of rosiglitazone 10-fold, an insulin-sensitizing drug used to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus.