More than 38 million Americans have diabetes and of them, up to 95% have type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the condition usually develops in ...

Type 2 diabetes, linked to insulin resistance, affects a significant portion of the American population, many undiagnosed. Pre-diabetes, also caused by insulin resistance, often progresses to Type 2 ...

Understanding what causes type 2 diabetes is crucial. The chronic condition occurs when your body doesn’t produce enough insulin or use it efficiently, leading to a buildup of glucose in the ...

Diabetes is very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that 38.4 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes. That’s 11.6 percent of the ...

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that impairs the body's ability to use or produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the conversion of sugar from food into energy, resulting in dangerously ...

As child care costs soar and offices re-open, women pay the price ...

Diabetes has been a well-known condition since ancient times, described 1500 years before Christ was born, in the Egyptian medical text the Ebers papyrus. Modern doctors thought they knew how it ...

People with type 2 diabetes usually have a higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared with people without type 2 diabetes. But that risk may depend on how long you’ve had type 2 diabetes. People who ...

Diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus are two different medical conditions, despite having similar names. Diabetes insipidus affects the kidneys and water balance in the body, while diabetes ...

Diabetes mellitus – commonly known as type 1 and type 2 – gets the maximum attention since the cases are rising globally and significantly. However, its lesser-known relative – diabetes insipidus is ...

Gestational diabetes arises when the body cannot produce sufficient insulin during pregnancy, leading to high blood sugar, but a healthy lifestyle may reduce the risk. The condition often presents ...

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...