HAMBURG, Germany — A combination of the antiviral drugs pleconaril and ribavirin slowed the decline of pancreatic insulin production compared with placebo in children and adolescents with newly ...

Researchers identify genetic markers that predict the rate of β-cell failure in type 1 diabetes, facilitating earlier, personalized care strategies Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune condition ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Before her pregnancy, Katherine Hegedorn of Parma was a healthy marathon runner. But during her recent pregnancy, she developed gestational diabetes, or high blood sugar, which can ...

A century ago, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Children diagnosed rarely survived more than a year or two, wasting away as their bodies starved despite food. Then, in 1921, in a modest lab in ...

A groundbreaking new drug that slows down the development of type 1 diabetes has been licensed for use in the UK. Teplizumab can allow patients to live “normal lives” without the need for insulin ...

Diabetes is increasingly affecting children, making early recognition crucial for proper treatment and lifelong health. While both type 1 and type 2 diabetes involve issues with blood sugar regulation ...

Stress does no one — not even your insulin-producing cells — any good. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have identified a gene that, when activated by metabolic stress, damages ...

A genetic predisposition to having lower insulin production and less healthy fat distribution are major causes of early-onset type 2 diabetes in British Asian people. According to research, these ...