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In a warning letter to Animas posted online by the FDA, the agency wrote that inspectors found Animas never reported on one complaint about serious patient injury and delayed reporting on two others….

Low levels of vitamin D may confer a cardiovascular benefit, but too much vitamin D may have the opposite effect….

Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in Adolescents   2.3 Individual Interventions (Part 1 of 2) Despite the benefits of these family-based programs, they pose a challenge for working with older adolescents if their parents do not come to clinic or for young people in families …

In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we discuss whether it is possible to delay the onset of type 2 DM and explore the effects of some medications on obesity…

By Sheri Colberg, PhD Just when everyone was already confused about what types and amounts of training people with diabetes should be doing, along comes yet another study to muddy the waters some more. This latest exercise research was undertaken by faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and appeared …

MySentry Wireless Monitor Medtronic Inc. has announced it received regulatory approval for the first remote glucose monitor that will let parents check the blood sugar of a diabetic child sleeping in another room. The mySentry monitor, which costs about $3,000, works with Medtronic’s MiniMed Paradigm Real-Time Revel System, an insulin …

The addition of off-label metformin to insulin therapy to improve insulin sensitivity, promote weight control, and reduce insulin dose requirements in patients with type 1 diabetes, has been assessed in systematic reviews.…

Experts examine 25 diet plans and rate them in different ways.…

Medtronic Inc. has announced it has received regulatory approval for the first remote glucose monitor that will let parents check the blood sugar of a diabetic child sleeping in another room.…

Insulin, glucagon-like peptide-1 positively linked in diabetes patients following gastric bypass surgery….