New approach to predicting who is most at risk for type 1 diabetes by the use of a test to measure biological markers for destroyed beta cells.

Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus not only have an absence of insulin but also an absence of the hormone amylin.

Having an abundance of fat surrounding the organs has been linked to a greater incidence of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

This noninvasive blood glucose monitor measures concentrations of serum glucose with clinically acceptable accuracy and avoids individual daily calibration.

Even mild increase of homocysteinemia play an important role in the progression of atherosclerosis, either in coronary or peripheral arteries.

An epidemic of type 1 diabetes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1993 may have been triggered by a measles epidemic.

Scientists at the University of Bath have converted liver cells into pancreas cells in a study that could revolutionize the treatment of the disease.

Diagnosis should be based on maternal post-natal carbohydrate tolerance.

Certain genes may be associated with the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy.

The UK government last week a new 10-year strategy to tackle diabetes, which includes a promise that by 2007 all diabetics will have eye screening to prevent complications that can lead to blindness.