The old adage that we are what we eat may need a little alteration, according to the findings of a recent study. It seems likely now that we are what our mothers ate during pregnancy. And the effect of the…
New data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate a substantial rise in diabetes cases in the last two years, bringing the total cases for 2007 to be almost 24 million, or about 8% of the…
Researchers at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have documented such a strong association between diabetes and depression that the research team suggests new treatment options targeting the combined diseases might prove to be more effective than when traditional treatment options…
Black patients have been found to have less success with diabetes control according to a new study. The disparity is being attributed to individual differences in physician care, according to a report in the June 9 issue of the Archives…
Exercise is a vital component in the treatment of both arthritis and diabetes and diabetics are diagnosed with arthritis at almost double the rate of the general population. However, the nature of either disease often makes exercise unattractive, if not…
A class of popular diabetes drugs has been found to be associated with an increased risk of fractures of the hip and wrist in insulin-resistant patients. The class of drug, insulin-sensitizing thiazolidinediones, makes up about 21% of the oral medications…
Sounds like the kind of job dreams are made of but it’s entirely real. Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are recruiting as many as 150 postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes to eat specially formulated chocolate every…
That’s the question researchers in Sweden are pondering after the findings of a recent study indicate that individuals diagnosed with mid-life diabetes are 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
Gestational diabetes is associated with a high risk of premature births. Now researchers at the New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry have identified a link between bad teeth and gestational diabetes.
The number of pediatric doctors who specialize in the treatment of childhood diabetes is steadily declining at a time when more and more children are being diagnosed with diabetes. The childhood obesity epidemic has been a major contributor to the…
