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Physicians should ask about their patients’ sleep and help their patients improve their sleep habits.

Depressive symptoms are common among children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, according to researchers, who found evidence of depressive symptoms in 15% of the young diabetics in their study.

Individuals with type 1 diabetes and their first-degree relatives have higher-than-normal serum levels of zonulin, a protein that helps regulate intestinal permeability by disassembling tight junctions, a new study shows.

New research suggests that handheld digital organizers could help people with diabetes follow a “low-GI” diet — a potentially effective but complicated eating plan for controlling blood sugar.

A range of factors, from self-confidence to stress to body weight, can make the difference between taking up exercise or staying on the couch, according to a new study.

The offspring of women with pregestational diabetes, either type 1 or type 2, are at a three-fold increased risk for perinatal mortality, and a two-fold increased risk for congenital anomalies, compared with the general population.

Body mass index (BMI), the ratio of body weight to height, is tightly linked to lifetime risk of diabetes.

A serendipitous finding was that the children tend to become very involved in their own diabetes management when using a continuous blood glucose monitor.

Galvus, a new once-daily oral treatment option for type 2 diabetes, lowers A1c 2.8% and demonstrates impressive efficacy, especially in patients with poor glycemic control, as well as weight loss benefits in obese patients.

Patients with type 2 diabetes receiving poor control while taking sulfonylurea improve more by adding inhaled insulin vs metformin, according to the results of an open-label, randomized study,