Diabetes has proven to be a disease that’s very difficult to manage. With treatments usually of the injectible or more invasive types, researchers are looking for a more convenient means of treatment. But current alternatives are just not that effective. But researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University have developed a patch that may provide a promising and

Diabetics need to effectively manage blood sugar levels in order to avoid the effects of the said disease. This can be done through diet and exercise. Diet plays a major role on how people with diabetes may be able to control the disease. A recent study suggests that low carbohydrate diets are the ideal diet for managing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. According to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingh

A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan Health System, the University College London, and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System indicates that insulin shots and other diabetic drugs may have a negative impact among type 2 diabetes patients, especially those over the age of 50. The researchers say that the negative side effects can overwhelm the benefits that these diabetes drugs over ti

Researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center have conducted an observational study with regards to treatment combinations for diabetes. They found out that diabetics who took insulin in combination with metformin, a common first-line therapy drug for diabetes, have a 30 percent higher risk of stroke, heart attack and death compared to patients who took metformin with another anti-diabetic drug called s

Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic reports that certain drugs used to treat diabetes may also be affecting cancer risks in women. A certain drug that treats type 2 diabetes may also lower cancer risk by up to one third. Another type of diabetes drug may also increase the cancer risk, according to a study published in the Dec. 5 issue of the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. The researchers analyzed the d

Diabetes is a disease that has increasingly affected millions of people worldwide, expected to reach half a billion by the next decade. Although it is not considered as a fatal disease, it can affect a person over a lifetime and with complications that can further worsen as people age. The sad thing is that it currently has no cure. But scientists have been getting some advances in this area. One of the recent ones

Type 2 diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. One of the more effective and popular medications in use to control the disease is the drug called metformin. While the said drug is known to be effective in managing a diabetic’s blood sugar levels, doctors have not been able to fully explain how and why it works. But the researchers from McMaster University have been able to discover ho

Many diabetics have always been dependent on insulin treatment as a means to control diabetes. Insulin is a hormone that removes glucose in the bloodstream to maintain the proper levels. But researchers have recently found a potentially better approach to controlling blood sugar levels by means of the glucagon pathway. Glucagon is a natural hormone in the body that adds glucose into the bloodstream. A recent study

Diabetes and excess weight are probably the two common issues that more and more people have to deal with nowadays. Both are even closely linked to each other, as some studies suggest. It may also be this link that may someday help people treat one in order to also treat the other. And as what a recent study may suggest, a certain class of diabetes drugs can also be used to aid people with weight loss. Researchers

Researchers have found a natural occurring compound that may help reverse diabetes. This discovery may someday suggest a way for people to take the said compound as a means to possibly treat or prevent type 2 diabetes. The research findings are published in the Oct issue of Cell Metabolism. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been able to successfully restore the normal b