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Maintaining your balance is important during almost all physical activities, and your ability to balance may diminish as you age. So this week Dr. Sheri Colberg gives us Balance and Flexibility Training Are Important, Too

Risky Brazil Experiment Enables Type I Diabetics to Live Without Insulin, Other Medicines

Poorly managed type 2 diabetes costs the U.S. health system an extra $22.9 billion a year.

A drug designed to treat juvenile rheumatoid arthritis may also be helpful for managing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

Vildagliptin, a new dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, is a useful therapeutic option in patients with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with metformin monotherapy

A bariatric surgery procedure used for treating severe obesity is now being explored as a cure for type 2 diabetes mellitus in normal-weight and moderately overweight patients with diabetes.

A new study suggests that diabetes is a significant risk factor for a type of memory problem that doctors call “amnestic mild cognitive impairment.”

Researchers have identified several risk factors for stroke in type 2 diabetic patients, with the two strongest being older age and a prior stroke.

The highest incidence of heart failure occurred in patients with a baseline HbA1c level of more than 8%.: For every 1% increase in serum HbA1c, the risk of heart failure rose by 15%.

The recommendations suggest that patients with coronary artery disease should have an oral glucose tolerance test if their diabetic status is unknown.