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Continuous glucose sensor technology has the potential to revolutionize diabetes management by providing patients with ongoing, online feedback about current blood glucose levels and rate/direction of change, as well as alarms to alert for possible dangerous trends.

New data shows that an experimental inhaled insulin drug called Exubera is effective in controlling blood sugar levels in diabetics over prolonged periods of time.

Low chromium levels as measured in toenail clippings are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for patients with diabetes.

There have been several studies regarding the relationship between Type I, insulin dependent diabetes and eating disorders. Although eating disorders may be no more common among patients with diabetes than among the general population, complications are more common among diabetic patients that also have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. …

Ten Year study shows that just a half an hour’s walking a day can almost eradicate the risk of developing diabetes.

Statin use was associated with a 10-month delay before newly treated diabetic subjects needed to start insulin treatment.

New technology gives scientists a glimpse into the earliest stages of the inflammatory process leading to type 1 diabetes and the new findings one day may be useful for predicting whether and when diabetes will develop in humans.

First potential therapy in a new class of drugs under investigation for the treatment of type 2 diabetes known as incretin mimetics.

West Virginia, Ohio and Vermont have the Highest Death Rate for Diabetes in White Females and West Virgina, North Carolina and South Carolina have the Highest Death rate for Black Females. Hawaii has the lowest overall death rate for women, Colorado the lowest rate of obesity, and Minnesota ranks best …

They have potential to lower cholesterol as effectively as commercial drugs. Blueberries, already known to help fight cancer and diabetes, may guard against heart disease as well.