Diabetes News

People with diabetes produce lower levels of the sleep hormone melatonin at night compared to those without diabetes, which may indicate a disruption in the body's natural clock, researchers said.

Diabetes can seem complicated and overwhelming, full of charts and devices and concerned-looking medical professionals. There's talk of hormones and endocrine systems, of obscure organizations and …

Every day hundreds of research articles involving diabetes are published. Many will turn out to be inconsequential, a number will add incrementally to our body of knowledge of diabetes and a very few …

Patients seeking a new provider of diabetic testing supplies can turn to Diabetes Care Club, one of only 18 companies in the nation with a contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …

Patients who use ACCU-CHEK products will be pleased to hear that Diabetes Care Club has signed an agreement with Roche Diagnostics to ensure that their testing supplies are available via mail order …

When you think of diabetes and celebrities these days, chef Paula Deen and her triple-buttered-biscuits'n'gravy recipes may come to mind. However, Paula's not the only celebrity who has struggled …

Diabetes is a serious disease that can affect many parts of the body-the heart, kidneys, blood circulation, and eyes. In fact, according to the National Eye Institute, diabetic eye disease …

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that the commonly used antidepressant drug paroxetine could also become a therapy for the vascular complications of …

A new diabetes discovery may one day help people with the disease avoid frequent insulin shots. Scientists have identified a hormone, dubbed "betatrophin," that can sharply boost the number of cells …

A newer class of diabetes drugs may offer an extra benefit: A new study suggests these medications lower the odds of suffering heart failure.

There are ways to live with diabetes that allow for optimal health and relative freedom from complications. But to obtain them requires knowledge and know-how.

Metformin, the generic first-line diabetes drug often used to control blood sugar, may also improve ovarian cancer survival, researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported online in the journal …

Poor sleep may not only leave you drowsy, it might also raise your odds for a precursor condition to diabetes, according to a small new study that looks at how fat cells respond to sleepless nights.

Cigarette smoking has been known to increase risk of cancer like lung cancer and other types of cancer. But a study released in Diabetes Care suggests that it may also increase risk of developing …

Full body X-ray scanners and luggage X-rays may damage some insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors, both used by many people with diabetes to manage their conditions.

Patients with diabetes who were treated with the popular oral medication metformin face a lower risk of heart attack, stroke or death than those taking sulfonylureas, another common option, according …

For a subset of heart patients who are both diabetic and have more than one clogged artery, bypass surgery appears to outperform the use of artery-widening stents, a major new trial finds.