A Healthy Diet Controls Blood Sugars Better than Drugs: A healthier diet helps control high risk Type 2 diabetes better than what drugs can achieve alone. Kirsten Coppell of the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand), who led the study, says the research indicates that providing the right dietary advice …

Lack of Zinc Linked to Diabetes: A U.S. researcher says zinc may play a role in blood sugar regulation and in avoiding Type 2 diabetes. Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy of the University of Michigan suggests that in Type 2 diabetes a protein called amylin forms dense clumps that shut down insulin-producing cells. …

(CGMS) Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Dogs: A researcher is using a continuous glucose-monitoring device — commonly used in humans with diabetes — to help treat dogs and other animals. “Our research has found that continuous glucose monitoring devices can be used in dogs, cats, cows and horses,” said University of …

New Potential Indicator of Pre-Diabetes/Type 2 Diabetes: An investigation led by Sean H. Adams at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Center in Davis, CA, underscores the potential of natural compounds in the body, known as "fatty acylcarnitines," to serve as diabetes biomarkers. The scientists determined this after searching for telltale …

The human skeleton plays an important role in regulating blood sugar and researchers, led by Columbia University Medical Center, have further illuminated how bone controls this process…. 

Middle-aged adults born at the height of China’s famine in the 1950’s and 1960’s may have a greater risk of high blood sugar than those born just a few years earlier or later…. 

Approximately half of young adults have at least one cardiovascular disease risk factor, such as a family history of disease, smoking, hypertension, or obesity, according to the results of a new study…. 

Encouraging research raises new hopes that a long awaited “artificial pancreas” to treat patients with Type 1 diabetes could be available in the U.S. within the next few years…. 

That metformin use is associated with lower blood B12 levels has been observed previously…. 

In high-risk adults with Type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans….