Healthcare workers should pay attention to the social and relationship context of their patients.

It is good for patients in the real world who occasionally overeat

Due to the hormone ghrelin which reduces appetite after eating not going down.

Diabetes management will grow at an annual rate of 11 percent during the next decade, according to a market research report.

Benefits of islet transplantation appear to be long lasting, greater than 2 years sofar.

A new study has found that alcohol does not appear to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Peter Forsham the noted diabetes specialist from the Univ. of California at San Francisco presented a lecture that I attended as a young professor that impressed me. He stated “if you know diabetes, you know medicine since diabetes effects every tissue and organ system from head to toe”. He …

New drug takes eyesight from 20-100 to 20-20

Light drinking appears to have preventive effects on atherosclerosis among type 2 diabetic patients. These effects do not exist with heavy drinking, however.

Islet antibody testing could prevent complications by initiating insulin treatment much earlier.