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Adding to the mixed bag of research on bisphenol A and diabetes, a new study suggests that people with higher urinary levels of the controversial chemical do have a higher risk of diabetes. Bisphenol A -- better known as BPA -- is a so-called endocrine disruptor, which means it may affect normal hormone activity in the ...

Back in the 1990s, the federal government tried an unusual social experiment: It offered thousands of poor women in big-city public housing a chance to live in more affluent neighborhoods. A decade later, the women who relocated had lower rates of diabetes and extreme obesity — differences that are being hailed as compelling evidence that where ...

Giving a "muffin test" to people at risk for diabetes might help doctors diagnose the disease and its warning signs, according to a new study.Tests for diabetes and its precursor, impaired glucose tolerance, check how well the body uses glucose, a type of sugar. In one common test, called an oral glucose tolerance test, a person ...

Mary Hyde, 64, recalls her mother’s response after hearing Hyde had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. “I told you not to eat all those sweet rolls when you were a teenager.” For years after her mother’s reproach, Hyde kept her condition and treatment pretty much to herself.  “I didn’t speak about it. I never tested ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rates of foot and leg amputations among Americans with diabetes may vary widely according to where they live, a new study suggests. About 26 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 65,000 had a lower limb amputation in 2006, the most recent year with available data. (...)

WASHINGTON — U.S. drug reviewers said a new pill from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and AstraZeneca Plc was effective in treating diabetes, but posed a number of safety risks. The pill, with the chemical name dapagliflozin, could also be less effective if patients had kidney problems, reviewers from the Food and Drug Administration said in documents released Friday. In ...

People who spend more hours in front of the television are at greater risk of dying, or developing diabetes and heart disease, with even two hours of television a day having a marked effect, according to a U.S. study.

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a new diabetes pill from Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly for patients who can't control their blood sugar with older medicines. The agency approved Tradjenta tablets for adults with type 2 diabetes, which affects 24 million people in the U.S. People with the disease have trouble breaking ...

CHICAGO — Weight loss surgery appears to change the body's metabolism in a way that dieting alone cannot, helping to explain why diabetes often disappears after the surgery even before much weight is lost, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. Understanding how gastric bypass affects metabolism could shed light on treatments for type 2 diabetes, a global epidemic ...

NEW YORK — Diet soda and other artificially-sweetened drinks - previously implicated in raising the chance of developing diabetes - are not guilty, suggests a new study from Harvard University researchers. In a large group of men followed for 20 years, drinking regular soda and other sugary drinks often meant a person was more likely to get ...