diabetes

For nearly a century, insulin has been a life-saving diabetes treatment. Now scientists are testing a tantalizing question: What if pills containing the same medicine patients inject every day could also prevent the disease?

As the number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes continues to grow, health officials are trying to raise awareness of the disease during National Diabetes Month. This year there is a special focus on the impact diabetes has on heart disease.

French drugmaker Sanofi and U.S. medical device manufacturer Medtronic Inc. have joined in a project to develop new combinations of drugs and devices for diabetes care.

Diabetes continues to be a global problem but for the last decade, the numbers have skyrocketed

Health officials say diabetes-related deaths in New York City have hit a record high, though the death rate is below the national average.

What are your risk factors for type-2 diabetes? How can you prevent it? Is there anything you can do? A special nationwide initiative is taking place tomorrow around the country to spread awareness.

A panel of federal health experts has ruled that an experimental diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson is safe and effective, though lingering safety questions must be tracked in long-term studies.

Federal drug reviewers think Johnson & Johnson's experimental diabetes drug might bring heart risks because it raised cholesterol levels in patient testing.

The numbers are staggering. One in four 12 to 19 year olds in the United States are on their way to developing diabetes.

The number of pre-diabetic teens has skyrocketed in recent years, according to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics. Nearly one of every four 12-to 19-year-olds are on their way to developing the disorder, jumping from nine percent of the adolescent population in 2000 to 23 percent in 2008.