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.

New York City is facing an epidemic of diabetes, new figures showing that nearly 8 percent of adults in the city have the disease, double the rate of eight years ago.

When treatment with metformin was compared to sulfonylurea treatment, study showed a 24.7%, reduction.

Autoantibody-positive women with gestational hyperglycemia have fewer features of insulin resistance and need insulin more often than do autoantibody-negative women.

Metformin treatment lowered HbA1c and decreased insulin dosage with no weight gain in teens with type 1 diabetes in poor metabolic control.

Your mother’s nutritional habits during pregnancy might make you predisposed to high blood pressure later in life.

Nateglinide better suited to patients with isolated postprandial hyperglycemia or those with very irregular eating habits.