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Medtronic has started a worldwide recall of specific lots of infusion sets used with all models of Medtronic insulin pumps for diabetes due to hypoglycemia risk.

A bionic pancreas system developed for home use reduced average blood glucose levels while decreasing the risk of low blood sugar - and it's...

Novo Nordisk Inc. issued a voluntary nationwide recall of GlucaGen HypoKit due to detached needles on the syringe in the kit. Novo Nordisk Inc. is...

Study explains why some dogs can smell dangerously low blood sugar levels in people and how people with diabetes can benefit. A chemical found in...

Researchers have discovered that a common treatment for people with type 2 diabetes could cause longer-than-normal periods of the low blood sugar reaction hypoglycemia, which may result in increased health risks to people with diabetes.

Cardiovascular complications and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) were common nonfatal complications in adults 60 years of age and older with diabetes.

Having hypoglycemic (low blood sugar level) episodes that are severe enough to require hospitalization are associated with a greater risk of dementia for older adults with type 2 diabetes.

A comprehensive systematic review looked at outcomes associated with the use of rapid- and long-acting insulin analogues in adult and childhood type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as gestational diabetes.

Study finds individuals with the greatest fear of physical activity had the poorest control of their diabetes.

A study of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and those without shows that only one of the T1DM patients, as compared to healthy control participants, awakened upon hypoglycemia.

The landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial showed conclusively that tight blood glucose control significantly reduces the risk of developing complications of diabetes such as eye, kidney and nerve disease. But the DCCT also showed that tight control -- achieved by taking three or more insulin injections daily -- can come at a cost.

Episodes of dangerously low blood glucose, or hypoglycemia, were greatly reduced in people who received an islet transplant for poorly controlled type 1 diabetes.

Scientists have found clues to why patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are often unable to sense their need to take life-saving glucose.

FDA is strengthening the current warnings in the prescribing information that fluoroquinolone antibiotics may cause significant decreases in blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and certain mental health side effects.

Human insulin is as safe and effective to treat type 2 diabetes as costlier insulin analogs, according to Yale researchers.

New sensor patch allows diabetics to effectively measure their sugar levels, pain free.