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The bill if passed could eliminate coverage for diabetes supplies.

Patients with Type 2 diabetes, aged 35 to 54, are three times more likely to die early than those of the same age without the disease.

According to health statistics, one-third of all children in the United States are either overweight or dangerously close to becoming so.

No significant effects were found when mixing insulin glargine with a rapid acting insulin in the same syringe.

Bill Clinton, has done what public health experts failed to do. He pulled the plug on public school soda machines.

Diabetes has become an enormous international problem with the number expected to rocket to beyond 334 million.

Some 39,000 adolescents in the United States already have obesity-linked type 2 diabetes, and nearly 3 million more may have blood sugar levels that could spur diabetes and other health problems, researchers report.

Use of Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diets Among Americans: Correlates, Duration, and Weight Loss Low carbohydrate, high protein diets (LCHP) were equally prevalent across sociodemographic subgroups and many users reported significant weight loss.

Insulin rather than salt is the major driver of hypertension, according to an analysis of data from a study.

For the last 50 years we have seen declines in renal failure, neuropathy and premature deaths, but not a decline in coronary artery disease. More attention is needed for lipids and hypertension, much earlier in the disease.