diabetes Related News
Over half of diabetes patients are treated for mental health
A new study from a leading mental health provider reports that over half of the people living with diabetes in the UK have been...
Safe and effective long-term treatment found for neonatal diabetes
Those with neonatal diabetes have an existing long-term therapy which has been shown for the first time to be safe and effective, a global...
Treating Type 2 diabetes in elderly and frail adults is focus of new guidance
New guidance has been published which focuses on how to manage the treatment of Type 2 diabetes in the elderly, including for the first...
Traffic light food labelling influences UK public’s spending habits
The traffic light food labelling system is more likely to influence what eating establishment someone will choose to buy food from, according to a...
IMI launches milestone project focusing on hypoglycaemia
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has today announced it has launched its milestone 100th project, which will focus on diabetes...
£2.6m invested in new research to reduce risk of Type 2 diabetes
Diabetes UK has invested £2.6m (~€3m) into 19 new projects that aim to make life-changing improvements in diabetes care and reduce people’s risk of...
Is poor muscle health a complication of Type 1 diabetes?
A new study from the universities of McMaster and York in Canada has found that poor muscle health may be one of the complications...
New AI service to aid treatment of gestational diabetes
CleverHealth Network is launching its first development project in Finland, which takes the form of a digital service model based on artificial intelligence to...
Hypoglycaemia is unaddressed threat to people with Type 2 diabetes
New research from the Endocrine Society and Avalere Health has found that clinicians are not equipped to identify, assess and manage patients at a...
New classification suggests five different types of diabetes
Results of a Swedish study (ANDIS) have indicated that there are more than two types of diabetes, meaning the need for new and better...
UK Type 2 diabetes cases reach 4.6 million
There is now a total of 4.6 million people living in the UK with Type 2 diabetes, according to new reports from Diabetes UK.
Almost...
Obesity – feeding the body or the mind?
Professor Dr Kerstin M Oltmanns of the University of Lübeck opens a new perspective on the epidemic of 2.2 billion overweight people
Obesity is a...
World leaders join new commission to tackle noncommunicable diseases
The World Health Organization (WHO) has today announced a new high-level commission that aims to put an end to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
The new WHO...
Diabetes treatment breakthrough designed to remove painful side effects
A chemist has invented a new diabetes treatment that improves glucose tolerance without any of the severe side effects like nausea and vomiting.
Meredith Professor...
It’s not all about inflammation
EU programmes at the Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, provide novel insights into the mechanisms behind the development of cardiovascular disease in diabetes
Cardiovascular disease...
Is the Paleolithic diet key to preventing risk of cardiovascular disease?
A study from Umeå University, Sweden, has revealed that a Paleolithic diet can help manage weight loss in the long term, as well as...
Diabetes drug could reduce Alzheimer’s symptoms
Scientists may have found a drug that not only treats diabetes but could also be used to treat Alzheimer's through a triple method of...