Yearly Archives: 2013

Every 30-seconds, somebody in the world is amputated due to a diabetes-related foot complication. A new study confirmes that some simple interventions can reduce the number of amputations by more than 50-percent.

Over the past 20-years, the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children under age 5 has increased by 70 percent in the city of Philadelphia. These young children are at the highest risk for death.

A research team has found that the most widely used diabetes drug works in a different way than previously understood. The findings could lead to diabetes treatments with less side effects.