Americans are gaining one to two pounds a year are taking seven years off their lives.

Just take three fewer bites of that burger and you will stop gaining weight. Or walk an extra mile every day or go up and down the stairs.

A “report card” to help patients with diabetes better manage their disease was developed by The National Association of Managed Care Physicians.

The findings confirm suspicions that serving sizes have grown ever larger and may be contributing to the rising rates of diabetes and obesity in the US. Just a an additional 100 calories a day can translate into 10 extra pounds a year

Diabetic children with treated asthma experience significantly fewer episodes of hypoglycemia and better glycemic control than do children with diabetes alone.

Intense, long-term intervention for Type 2 diabetes cuts risk of cardiovascular (CV) and microvascular events by about half.

Topical oxygen successfully heals difficult-to-treat wounds, according to a case series published in the January issue of Pathophysiology.

Hypertension is more likely to be inadequately controlled in diabetic patients than in nondiabetics.

Those with insulin resistance or diabetes showed a two- to three-fold increase in large VLDL concentrations.

Cigarette smoking increases oxidant stress and thereby progressive renal injury in patients with type 2 diabetes.