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Vitamin K slowed the development of insulin resistance in elderly men in a study of 355 non-diabetic men and women ages 60 to 80 who completed a three-year clinical trial.

A recent article in Pediatrics, discussed how preteens and teens have doubled use of diabetes drugs in the past 4 years and that the prevalence is dramatically higher among young girls vs. boys. Why is this occurring? Why is it higher in girls? This week we have the article for …

We seem to spend so much time with our overweight Type 2 patients that we forget about the patients that seem to be doing everything right. They eat right, they exercise and they still have problems. Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM works with these kinds of patients all the time. …

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells within the pancreas that were not beta cells, a finding that contradicts a widely-cited earlier study that had concluded this is not possible.

High blood pressure medicines can cause a loss in potassium which can lead to diabetes. The drop in blood potassium levels caused by diuretics commonly prescribed for high blood pressure could increase diabetes risk, U.S. researchers said.

People diagnosed with diabetes spend over $4,100 more each year on medical costs than people who don’t have diabetes, a gap that increases substantially each year following the initial diagnosis, according to a study

Women younger than age 65 with diabetes tend to have worse cardiovascular risk profiles than diabetic men of the same age, leading to higher death rates following a heart attack, research shows.

According to a new survey released last week, the vast majority of Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes — 83 percent — are not taking the most basic steps of determining if they are at risk for the disease: getting a blood glucose test if they are at risk …

A research team has discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates body rhythms and metabolism.

When used as sensors for nocturnal hypoglycemia alarms, continuous glucose monitors have sufficient time to awaken a patient to prevent a seizure, even with the lag time in interstitial glucose readings, according to a new report.