Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that offers a completely new and promising direction for the development of drugs to treat metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes….

High blood pressure and diabetes can cause eye cell and blood vessel damage….

Persistent hyperfiltration tied to greater declines in renal function, nephropathy in type 2 diabetes….

Remission of type 2 diabetes in severely obese people after bariatric surgery hinges on baseline beta cell function, not weight loss….

Black women experienced less weight loss than white women after gastric bypass surgery….

Curcumin also improves beta-cell function, insulin resistance, and adiponectin in adults with prediabetes….

Lowering the glycemic index (GI) or carbohydrate content of mixed meals reduces blood glucose and insulin levels throughout the day without influencing satiety….

In a small randomized trial, cholecalciferol helped preserve beta-cell function in patients with new-onset type 1 diabetes….

Hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes and renal insufficiency might benefit from lower than standard weight-based initial doses of insulin glargine or glulisine….

Two years ago there was a great deal of press about the use of the Estimated Average Glucose (eAG) and how this would revolutionize diabetes care, making things easier for our patients to understand their diabetes. However in practice there has not been a big shift in that direction. Now …