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The fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level and A1c both improved.

Toronto University scientists have said that stem cells can be a cure for diabetes, thereby eradicating the need for replacing insulin.

Diabetes has overtaken poverty-related infections to become the leading cause of death in Mexico, and WHO is warning that a devastating global diabetes epidemic is looming.

Novo Nordisk is investing in Transition Therapeutics Inc. and buying the worldwide rights to the Toronto company’s diabetes drug treatment for islet neogenesis. This research will provide competition to P&G’s research in the Ingap program.

Parents in parts of Georgia are among the first in the country able to discover whether their newborns have an elevated risk for type 1 diabetes.

The number of American adults with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the past decade, putting more people at risk of a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure.

Serum concentrations of adiponectin and leptin can aid in discriminating between diabetes type 1 and type 2 in adolescents and children.

Older women with diabetes or impaired fasting glucose tend to have worse cognitive function than those with normal blood sugar, and are at greater risk of cognitive decline over time.

New research suggests that e-mail consultations benefit patients and it’s inexpensive

Diabetes is most common in poorest neighborhoods.