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Type 2 diabetes increased by nearly 20% in the United States between 2012 and 2022,  with age, race, income level, obesity and lack of exercise all playing a role in the metabolic disease’s spread, a new study reports.

“Diabetes is increasing day ...

Eating red meat and processed meat can increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new review finds.

Regularly eating 50 grams of processed meat a day -- the equivalent of two slices of ham -- increased by 15% a person’s risk of developing typ...

A review of U.S. data from 2012 through 2024 finds that when kids get free school meals, there's a potential for a slight increase in attendance and a lowering of child obesity rates.

Even kids from higher-income households benefited, as many took advantage of wholesome lunches provided by schools, the researchers said.

That means they could eat healthier fare "instead of bringing f...

Tirzepatide, the blockbuster GLP-1 medicine known as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss, cut the odds that an obese, prediabetic person will develop diabetes by 94%, a new trial shows.

The three-year-long trial, funded by the drugs' maker, Eli Lilly, also found "sustained ...

Toxin from one of the most venomous animals on the planet – a deadly sea snail – could help researchers figure out new ways to treat diabetes and other hormone disorders, a new study suggests.

A toxin in the venom of the geography cone snail mimics a human hormone called somatostatin, which regula...

Americans continue to rank dead last in life expectancy among English-speaking countries, a new study finds.

People in the United States more often fall prey at younger ages to accidental deaths, homicides and chronic diseases, researchers reported Aug. 13 in the BMJ Open journal.

On the other hand, Australians had t...

About 14% of women will develop diabetes while pregnant, a condition known as gestational diabetes.

It's linked with obesity and older age, and the number of cases is growing although they usually resolve by the time of delivery.

Now, a new study delivers reassuring news for women h...

People can offset hours spent sitting around with minutes of active exercise each week, a new study claims.

Folks who are sedentary for eight or more hours daily can lower their overall risk of death – and especially their risk of dying from heart disease...

New research has added two conditions to the list of 12 risk factors that boost the chances of a dementia diagnosis.

The good news? You can guard against the development of both and researchers offer advice on exactly how to do that.

In a study published Wednesday in 

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    • Having a mom with type 1 diabetes might provide long-term protection against the condition in children, a new review finds.

    This protective effect is suggested by that fact that a child is almost twice as likely to develop type 1 diabetes if their father has the condition th...

    Abbott has warned diabetes patients that some of its continuous blood sugar monitoring systems may need to be replaced because of inaccurate readings.

    "Abbott has recently identified a small number of FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors that may provide incorrect high glucose readings, which if undetected may pose a potential health risk for people living with diabetes," the company said in an

    As marijuana loses much of its stigma and laws around its use relax, Americans are increasingly consuming it medically and recreationally.

    Americans with diabetes are no exception, a new study finds.

    The number of adults with diabetes who said that they'd used cannabis at least once over the past month...

    The boom in using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to treat obesity has resulted in a bust regarding the drugs’ original purpose, which was to treat type 2 diabetes, a new study finds. 

    New prescriptions for these drugs have doubled among people who have obesity but not diabetes, investigators...

    Diabetics who sleep too little or too much are more likely to suffer damage to their small blood vessels, a condition that can cause organ damage throughout their bodies.

    Short sleep duration is tied to a 2.6 times increased risk of small blood vessel damage, also known as microvascular disease, in people with diabetes, a new study reports.

    Likewise, the study found long sleep durat...

    Diabetes can make lumbar spinal fusion surgery much more likely to fail, a new study says.

    People with diabetes are nearly three times more likely to have their vertebrae fail to properly heal and fuse together, what surgeons call a non-union complication, according to results recently published in the journa...

    Osteoarthritis could nearly triple a person's risk of developing a multitude of other chronic illnesses, a new two-decade study finds.

    People with osteoarthritis (OA) -- where cartilage breaks down, allowing bones to rub against each other -- tend to develop multiple other health problems as the years progress, researchers found.

    These other chronic illnesses can include heart disea...

    If it would stave off heart disease, diabetes and colon cancer, would you swear off bacon and burgers?

    A new international simulation projects cutting Americans' intake of processed meat alone by 30% could head off more than 350,000 cases of...

    Screening for chronic illnesses like diabetes or fatty liver disease could one day be as simple as checking the temperature of your nose, eyes or cheeks.

    The temperature of different parts of the face are associated with various chronic diseases, researchers reported July 2 in the journal

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    • Want to reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes? Avoid bright light at night, a recent study suggests.

    More exposure to light at night, between 12:30 a.m. and 6 a.m., is linked to a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers found.

    That's likely because l...

    A common plastics chemical might increase a person's risk of diabetes, a new study warns.

    People fed small doses of Bisphonol A (BPA) developed significantly worse insulin sensitivity within a four-day period, researchers found.

    "We were surprised to see that reducing BPA exposure, such as using stainle...

    The COVID virus, or rather people's immune response to it, has changed and it might be prudent to wait a couple days after symptoms start before taking a COVID test, researchers report.

    "For COVID, we found that if you only have one test, it's best to wait two days after symptoms arise to use it, because the virus is unlikely to be detectable until then,"said study first author

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    • A person's gut microbiome appears to increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers claim.

    Specific strains of gut microbes are more commonly found in people with type 2 diabetes, and these strains seem to heighten the risk of developing the metabolic d...

    Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds.

    Obesity has been linked to higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This is largely due to excess levels of hormones like estrogen and insulin.

    But study results show that dropping pounds can improve a person's odds against developing these cancers, including

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    • A well-established cholesterol-lowering drug appears to significantly slow the progression of a diabetes-related eye disease, a new trial shows.

    Fenofibrate (Tricor) has been approved since 2004 as a means of lowering cholesterol. Now, this new study shows ...

    Inhaled insulin could be a better option than injections or pumps for some patients with type 1 diabetes, a new clinical trial shows.

    Patients using inhaled insulin (Afrezza) plus long-lasting

    Two new studies offer reassurance that using the diabetes drug metformin before and during pregnancy is not linked to birth defects.

    The latest findings, which apply to men planning to conceive with their partners or women in early pregnancy, contradict a 2022 study that found metformin use by men in the three months before ...

    Folks trying to control their blood sugar levels might do best to work out in the evening, a new study suggests.

    Exercise performed between 6 p.m. and midnight appeared to be better at controlling blood sugar levels all day long, according to results published June 10 in the journal Obesity.

    This was partic...

    Common drugs used to control cholesterol, blood sugar and high blood pressure might also lower a person's risk of stroke, a new study finds.

    The researchers evaluated the risk of brain aneurysms that cause bleeding strokes in patients.

    For the study, they looke...

    Ozempic and Wegovy might help lower the risk of pancreatitis in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, a new study says.

    Up to now, doctors have been cautious about prescribing semaglutide to patients with a history of pancreatitis, because they feared the drug could worsen the condition, said lead...

    Three months after starting one of the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, more than a quarter of patients have already quit the medications, and by a year from first use more than a third have stopped, new research shows.

    Reasons for quitting Wegovy, Ozempic or similar drugs may include cost or gastrointestinal side effects, said a team led by U...

    Men are more vulnerable than women to the debilitating effects of diabetes, a new long-term study finds.

    Overall rates of diabetes are similar between men and women, according to the report published May 16 in the

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    • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class 1 recall -- its most urgent kind -- for an IOS app linked to a specific kind of insulin pump used by people with diabetes.

    The

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    • Though it is a widespread disorder, neuropathy often goes undiagnosed, new research shows, leaving many people at risk of falls, infection and even amputation.

    Neuropathy is nerve damage that causes numbness and pain in feet and hands. 

    A study of 169 people treated at an outpatient clinic in Flint, Mich., found that 73% had neuropathy. Three-quarters had not been diagnosed.

    Nine of 10 American adults are in the early, middle or late stages of a syndrome that leads to heart disease, a new report finds, and almost 10% have the disease already.

    "Poor cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health is widespread among the U.S. population," concludes a team led by

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    • Peripheral artery disease (PAD) involves a debilitating narrowing of arteries in the legs, and the National Institutes of Health estimates that 1 in every 20 Americans over 50 is affected.

    Research into best treatments for women with PAD is lacking, however. 

    Now, a study finds that less inva...

    Emulsifiers -- substances that are essential ingredients in processed foods -- appear to increase people's risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study finds.

    In fact, the more emulsifiers that people eat as part of their food, the higher their risk of type 2 diabetes, researc...

    Severe mental illness can contribute to a decline in a person's physical health, with many chronic conditions slowly eroding their wellness, a new review finds.

    People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are more than twice as likely to have multiple chronic health problems such as heart di...

    Managing a stroke victim's blood sugar levels after they receive powerful clot-busting drugs might help them survive their health crisis, a new trial finds.

    People with high blood sugar levels were more likely to suffer a potentially deadly brain bleed after clot-busters reopened their blocked brain arteries, researchers found.

    The risk was particularly high in older patients with m...

    An immune-compromised man with a year-and-a-half-long COVID infection served as a breeding ground for dozens of coronavirus mutations, a new study discovered.

    Worse, several of the mutations were in the COVID spike protein, indicating that the virus had attempted to evolve around current vaccines, researchers report.

    "This case underscores the risk of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection...

    The placenta could be one reason why some women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, a new study finds.

    A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) appears linked to insulin resistance during pregnancy, researchers reported April 16 in the journal ...

    For people struggling with both diabetes and a common type of heart failure, the weight-loss drug Wegovy may do more for their health than help them shed pounds, new research suggests.

    In the study, published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reported that the drug helped people with typ...

    Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co is announcing a temporary shortage of two of its insulin products.

    "The 10 mL [millilter] vials of Humalog® and Insulin Lispro Injection are or will be temporarily out of stock at wholesalers and some pharmacies through the beginning of April," Lilly said in a recent statement.

    The company said it is continuing to make the 10 mL vials, and "will ship...

    A surgical treatment used to treat conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and back sciatica might also help relieve the pain of patients with diabetic neuropathy, a new study finds.

    Surgical nerve decompression significantly eased pain among a small group of people with diabetic neuropathy for up to five years, researchers report.

    In the surgery, researchers removed inflexible tissu...

    In people with type 1 diabetes, fluctuations in blood sugar levels can affect thinking skills in various ways, new research shows.

    Researchers looked specifically at what's known as cognitive processing speed (how fast people process incoming information) and attention.

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    There may be an unexpected fix for ongoing shortages of insulin: A brown bovine in Brazil recently made history as the first transgenic cow able to produce human insulin in her milk.

    "Mother Nature designed the mammary gland as a factory to make protein really, really efficiently," explained study leader Matt Wheeler, a professor ...

    If you live in a small town and have diabetes, you're more likely to suffer serious setbacks than your cousin in the big city.

    New research shows that people in towns with fewer than 50,000 people have a significantly higher risk of diabetes-related complications, including heart attack and kidney disease.

    "Those who live in rural areas have a greater risk of experiencing eight out ...

    Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic can increase a person's risk of throwing up during surgery while under anesthesia, a new study reports.

    People are typically asked to fast prior to surgery because general anesthesia can cause nausea, and they might inhale and choke on their own vomit.

    Unfortunately, part of the way that these drugs, called GLP-1 receptor agonists, help prom...

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the country's first continuous glucose monitor for type 2 diabetes.

    The new Dexcom Stelo Glucose Biosensor System, which will be available by summer, is intended for people 18 and older who have type 2 diabetes but do not take insulin, according to the agency.

    Also known as CGMs, these monitors consist of tiny sensors that pr...

    Are you typically getting only a few hours sleep each night?

    Besides leaving you groggy all day, your insomnia could also be raising your odds for type 2 diabetes, new research shows.

    Compared to people who slept the recommended seven/eight hours per night, folks who habitually slept five hours per night had a 16% higher odds for the blood sugar illness, Swedish researchers found. ...

    Some Americans living with diabetes are using smartwatches and smart rings that claim to be able to track their blood sugar.

    However, such claims from any device that does not pierce the skin are fraudulent and potentially dangerous, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned in an

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