Offers a complete, separate curriculum for type 1 and type 2 patients. 

A new vision screening device, already shown to give an early warning of eye disease, could give doctors and patients a head start on treating diabetes and its vision complications

Results of a nearly five-year study of more than 1,100 older adults with type 2 diabetes -- a group that is at risk for heart attacks or sudden death -- may let them breathe a little easier.

A new study finds that even when people with diabetes show up in their doctor's office with a high blood pressure reading, there's only a 50-50 chance that each of them will get some sort of attention for it.

They can be damaged by drugs and disease. The vast majority of people with kidney disease don't know it. That's because it damages the organs slowly over many years before causing symptoms.

A new study indicates there is wide discrepancy in diagnostic testing for kidney disease among patients with these conditions, with patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) tested at half the rate as those with diabetes.

One in three children born today will have diabetes in their lifetime.

The New York Times published a report examining the six leading causes of illness and death in the United States today.  Diabetes ranks fifth among them and accounts for nearly 73,000 American deaths annually, more from any disease except heart disease, cancer, stroke and pulmonary disease.  According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention only seven percent of these patients with diabetes are doing what they should to protect themselves and receiving all the treatments they need.

More than 20 million adults in the United States are living with diabetes and are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). But there are steps that they can take to reduce the complications associated with these two diseases. The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has launched Control Your Diabetes.

The care of people with diabetes is improving, with more people having the key tests and measurements they need to help keep their diabetes under control, says a report from The Information Centre for health and social care (The IC).

A Phase 2 clinical study of inhaled insulin conducted by Eli Lilly and Company and Alkermes, Inc., shows that patients who use the Lilly/Alkermes inhaled insulin system can control their blood sugar levels to equivalent levels of patients using injected insulin.

According to a recent report released by the U.S. government, islet transplantation may one day become the standard curative therapy for severe or complicated type 1 diabetes. The report is the result of research conducted by Dr. Michel Appel, Ph.D. and his colleagues at the Islet Biology and Transplantation Research Program at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Professor Joseph Chaiken, who teaches in the Chemistry Department at Syracuse University, has developed a product to test glucose without taking one drop of blood.

There is new hope for reducing vision loss in patients with diabetes type 1 or type 2.

This is the first of a series of articles about diabetes and employment. The series will cover defining how diabetes is a disability under the laws of The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); how employers may obtain and use medical information, what questions an employer or potential employer may ask about a medical condition; to whom and under what conditions an employer may or may not disclose that an employee has diabetes; what types of reasonable accommodations employees with diabetes need; how to request reasonable accommodations; and dealing with safety concerns on the job.

Like many uncured diseases, the effects of diabetes can be softened by some relatively simple lifestyle changes.

The American College of Preventive Medicine reports that a survey found nearly 50% of Americans with diabetes are not using aspirin to reduce the risk of future heart attacks and strokes.

Physical activity has many benefits for diabetics. It improves your energy, lowers your blood sugar, helps prevent heart disease and perks up your attitude.

An enzyme enabling pancreas cells to recognize glucose and secrete insulin is contained in a new gene identified by a research team at the University of California at San Diego.