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Halloween seems to be the perfect time to share another really interesting interview I got to do recently - with diabetes' very own superhero team, Captain Glucose and Meter Boy. You might have heard of them and seen their comics and their animates before, but if not, you should definitely check them out at their Web ...

Last week we launched two new surveys in TuAnalyze, on insulin delivery systems and blood glucose monitors. A big thank you to everyone who has taken these surveys—so far each has been completed over 200 times! The purpose of these surveys, which were developed in collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is to gain ...

This is an uncomfortable subject for me. It's an embarrassing subject for me. I'm not sharing my story for attention. I'm sharing my story because there were so many signs I had and no one knew about what I was doing, not even my husband or my mother or my best friend. They didn't know there ...

35 years ago July 1976 seems like another lifetime ago. I was 12 years old at the time and just like any other kid glad that summer vacation was finally here. At that point in time there was a bad strain of flu going around called the hong kong flu or what we know today at ...

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most common and debilitating complications of diabetes. During National Diabetes Month, the National Eye Institute (NEI), a part of the National Institutes of Health, is encouraging people with diabetes to get annual dilated eye exams and take steps to avoid vision loss. About 28.5 percent of U.S. adults age 40 ...

White and black Americans who live in poor neighborhoods struggle with many of the same health disparities, which suggests that where a person lives plays a larger role in health disparities than previously believed, according to a new study. Researchers looked at rates of high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and obesity in two low-income, racially integrated ...

Obese individuals are less able to inhibit the impulsive desire to eat than people of normal weight, especially when their blood-sugar levels go down below normal, researchers from Yale University and the University of Southern California reported in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. They also found that for most people, when the brain becomes hungry, a ...

Women with recently diagnosed diabetes may be more likely to also get a breast cancer diagnosis than those without diabetes, suggests a new study from Canada. It's not the first time diabetes has been linked to new cases of breast or other cancers. But the findings also hint that at least part of the reason why ...

A review of the genetic and biochemical abnormalities associated with autism reveals a possible link between the widely diagnosed neurological disorder and Type 2 diabetes, another medical disorder on the rise in recent decades. "It appears that both Type 2 diabetes and autism have a common underlying mechanism - impaired glucose tolerance and hyperinsulinemia," said Rice ...

U.S. vaccine advisers on Tuesday voted to recommend routine vaccination for Hepatitis B for adults with diabetes under the age of 60 and said people older than 60 "may" get the vaccine as well. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, voted 12-2 to include diabetics in ...