Diabetes News

Mayo Clinic research reinforces the importance of blood sugar control from onset of diabetes to prevent nerve damage later.

People who receive a kidney transplant are nearly four times more likely to develop melanoma, a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, according to a study.

A preliminary study suggests that kidney paired donation transplantation, in which incompatible donor/recipient pairs exchange kidneys so that each recipient receives a compatible kidney, had graft survival rates equivalent to compatible live donor transplants.

A Johns Hopkins study has affirmed the success of living kidney "paired donation" (KPD) as a means of efficiently finding more kidney donors who are a match for patients in need.

Transplantation of insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells shows great promise as a treatment for type 1 diabetes.

Scientists report that transplanted insulin-producing cells survive better when the activation of a specific type of immune cell is blocked.

The babies of women with diabetes are two to five times more likely to develop birth defects than offspring of women without the disease.

A new study reveals critical molecular events in the origin of fat cells. The findings are central to understanding chronic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, as fat cells produce hormones critical for metabolic control, the researchers said.

Chronically high levels of insulin, as is found in many people with obesity and Type II diabetes, may block specific hormones that trigger energy release into the body.

Falling is the leading cause of accidental death for elderly people, and a new study suggests that nursing home residents with diabetes are four times more likely to fall than those who are not diabetic.

Novo Nordisk Inc announced that the FDA has approved the supplemental new drug application of NovoLog for the treatment of diabetes in children.

If mothers of preschoolers perceive their neighborhood as unsafe, their children tend to watch more television, but differ little in amounts of outdoor play or overweight, compared to peers in safer neighborhoods.

People with serious mental illness have higher rates of type 2 diabetes than the general population, yet their knowledge of diabetes was generally poor and significantly lower than people without mental illness

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

A group of researchers has discovered that a diet rich in soy protein may alleviate fatty liver, a disease which often accompanies diabetes.

Increasing the concentration of a key regulator involved in glucose metabolism can improve the way the liver produces and disposes of the sugar glucose.