This animated video describes the pancreas and it's functions in an easy to understand way. A great lesson for anyone interested in learning how the pancreas works.

Doctors are now taking more aggressive measures in order to help the 57 million Americans at risk of developing diabetes. As Dr. Jon LaPook reports, a healthy diet and exercise are essential.

Calculating how much insulin diabetics need is a complicated and day long process. Soon, an artificial pancreas may be ready to do the job for them. Harry Smith reports.

It's estimated more than 20-million Americans have diabetes. But not everybody complies with the treatment. Now doctors are trying to make it as easy as A-B-C.

"I woke up and the ambulance people are asking me my name." A man discovers he is pre-diabetic only after he has a violent seizure following a week of fun partying. A shocking lesson that affected the rest of his life.

Dr Sudesh Kumar looks at the relationship between obesity and diabetes and how researchers are helping doctors better diagnose and treat both conditions.

One in five children in the United States is diagnosed with obesity. For the first time in history, this generation may be sicker and die younger than their parents.

This short animated video explains what Diabetes Mellitus is in easy to understand language.

Insulin is the hormone normally made in the pancreas that stimulates the flow of sugar - glucose - from the blood into the cells of the body. Glucose provides the cells with the energy they need to function. This video explains the types and uses of insulin.

Your doctor or diabetes educator may ask you to mix a short-acting or clear insulin with an intermediate or long acting cloudy insulin in the same syringe so that both can be given at the same time. This video from the PostCare Diabetes Center discusses mixing insulin.

This program will demonstrate the use of insulin pens. The goal is to inject the insulin into the subcutaneous tissue between the top layer of the skin, the dermis and the underlying muscle layer.

Monitoring and tightly controlling your blood sugar level can significantly reduce the risk of complications due to diabetes and provide you with a higher quality of life. This video from the PostCare Diabetes Center can be very helpful to people trying to manage their diabetes.

This program demonstrates injecting insulin in a concise, step-by-step way. This is a great video for newly prescribed insulin users and caregivers, as well as long-time users.