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The Mediterranean diet, long touted as a healthy eating plan, may help people with Type 2 diabetes stay off blood sugar-lowering medications, as well as help them lose weight and lower cardiovascular risk factors. 

Being short in adulthood is associated with an increased risk of microvascular complications in patients with Type 1 diabetes, according to a report.

Greater gestational weight gain before second-trimester glycemic screening may increase a pregnant woman’s risk for impaired glucose tolerance, according to two papers.

New recommendations for maximum dietary intake of “added sugars,” released last week by the American Heart Association, are probably far more healthful than the much-higher current average intake in the U.S.. But without educating the patient, it will have little or no effect. 

Accusure insulin syringes (Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) distributed nationwide from January 2007through June 2008 are undergoing voluntary recall because of the detachment of needles from the syringes. 

The International Expert Committee has concluded that the best current evidence supports the following recommendations in the use of the A1c for the diagnosis of diabetes.

Abnormal test results using the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test(OGTT) in those without gestational diabetes signals future heart risk, researchers say.A glucose challenge test given to pregnant women may also show if they have an increased risk of heart disease in the future, a new study has found.

University of California, San Francisco researchers have identified the two key circuits that control a cell’s ability to adapt to changes in its environment, a finding that could have applications ranging from diabetes and autoimmune responses.

An international study says that children under the age of 15 are more susceptible to developing diabetes in winter.

When it comes to how fat affects metabolic risk factors, the issue is where, not how much and the latest hot spot is the liver.