Pig cells could be used to deliver insulin to Type 1 diabetes patients via an implant under the skin, potentially freeing sufferers from the need to have regular insulin injections, according to researchers…
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If your great-grandparents lived through a famine, their experience could well have altered their genetic code. And three generations later you could well be showing signs of that change. The idea that…
The gut’s ability to detect sweet food may be defective in people with type 2 diabetes. The study compared healthy adults…
Internet-based cared management is both improving the clinical outcome of diabetes patients and easing the pressure on the…
Using insulin pumps to treat Type 1 diabetes in children is more effective at controlling blood sugar and causes fewer infections…
A Japanese research team claims to have developed a pocket-sized device that reveals if your body is burning fat in real time by measuring the amount of acetone on the breath. The prototype device is aimed…
“Reverse vaccines” could be used to help relieve sufferers of type 1 diabetes from the inconvenience of daily insulin injections. A vaccine usually works by boosting the body’s immune system to fight a…
Transplant recipients without diabetes are expected to live twice as long as patients with the disease. The study focused…
Pregnant women can now more easily assess their risk of contracting diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life. After…
Teenagers who drink more than one standard can (375 millilitres) of sugary drinks a day are putting themselves at higher…
In 2001 I met David Graham, an official from the US Food and Drug Administration, in a car park in Washington. I wanted him to shed light on why the diabetes drug troglitazone, or Rezulin, had been available…
A four year study at the University of Sydney has found that pregnant mothers and their babies are synchronising immune systems…
Efforts to allow some patients to self-manage their illnesses are not proving effective, researchers at the University of…
The number of people under 40 with type 2 diabetes has increased sharply in the past 20 years, researchers at Cardiff University…
Recent research linking soft drinks to type 2 diabetes reminds us, once again, that we are what we put in our mouths. This large study from Europe found drinking a 12 ounce (about 355 ml) can of soft drink…
New research suggests that more sugar in the body could damage the elastic proteins that help the body breathe and pump blood…
Researchers have trialled vitamin D supplements as a means of managing blood sugar in obese teenagers. The study compared…
To keep your body functioning, glucose must always be present in your blood. It’s as important as oxygen in the air you breathe. The brain can only function for a few minutes without either before it stops…
The death of immune system cells is an important safeguard against the development of autoimmune diseases, according to new…
Measuring disease-related distress and depression in diabetics can help management of diabetes, according to a new multi-disciplinary…
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