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Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that offers a completely new and promising direction for the development of drugs to t...

Photo: Dr. Roger Unger (left) and Dr. Young Lee found in an animal study that blocking the hormone glucagon might eliminate the symptoms of...

From Live Science: A news search on the word "Avandia," the diabetes drug, will pull up thousands of results, nearly all pertainin...

From StlToday.com/AP: After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world's biggest d...

From Time Magazine: Doctors at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta on Sunday got some surprising news on the...

Bottlenose dolphins may gives scientists clues into how to shut off diabetes type II, and provide an insight into a range of other human ail...

Type 2 diabetes, characterised by insulin resistance, can cause blindness and impotence From Times Online: The genetic roots of type 2 diabe...

From The BBC: Tea and coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a large body of evidence shows. And the protection ma...

From Live Science: If Americans don't eat better and exercise more, diabetes cases will double by 2034 and costs to care for the patient...

From Live Science: Once upon a time, in the dark ages of the 1960s and '70s, a diabetes diet meant avoiding sugar. Refrigerators of diab...

From Live Science: This Week's Question: I've been very thirsty lately and someone mentioned to me that this is a symptom for diab...

From The Telegraph: A gene that controls the way the body responds to the hormone insulin has been identified, marking a breakthrough in the...