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Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson wants Insurance companies to give discounts to customers who lose weight and exercise every day and the U.S. government plans to help them do it.

Metformin as adjunctive therapy for adolescents with type 1 diabetes and insulin resistance lowered hemoglobin A1c levels and decreased insulin dosage with no weight gain.

Severe gum disease may hasten death in people with diabetes, new study findings suggest.

British researchers report, that in women with gestational diabetes, a postnatal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) may only be necessary in women whose postnatal fasting plasma glucose is 6.0 mmol/L or more

Little data is available on the long-term efficacy of one of the main drugs in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, metformin.

That, in contrast to post-load hyperglycemia, as the principal measurable determinant of exposure to the risk of cardiovascular disease in Type 2 diabetes.

Researchers said on Thursday they had found a new class of drugs that might attack diabetes on more than one front — and that could be taken as a pill

Approximately 7% of pregnancies will be affected in 2003, up from 4% in 200.

The degree of glycemic control is related to cognitive performance in adults with type 2 diabetes.

Increased risks are associated with pregnancies among women with untreated impaired glucose tolerance.