Cases Without Borders: In Mexico, Diabetes Strains Lives and Budgets
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For diabetics in the developing world, the most basic tools necessary to keep their illness in check represent a major expense.
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Diabetes is a disease that over eighteen million Americans have. The most serious form is Type 1, where the body fails to produce insulin.
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Global health leaders meeting in  Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on  medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make  those now on the market available to the poor.
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Health experts have pronounced diabetes as one of the deadliest diseases. Diabetes which killed an increasing number of New York City residents last year for the first time ranked among the five leading causes
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With a comprehensive immigration overhaul now perhaps years away, Latin American governments concerned with the well-being of their nationals living in this country are taking on an equally thorny issue: the U.S. health-care system.
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NEW YORK  - Children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, like adults, are at risk for developing complications from the disease. However, these complications are expected to develop earlier in young patients, experts say.
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New research suggests that  obese adults with diabetes often say they eat less than they  actually do -- a problem that can hinder management of the  disease, according to researchers.
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NEW YORK  - Dental health is particularly  important for people with diabetes, new findings indicate.
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NEW YORK  - As blood levels of vitamin D  increase, the risk of diabetes decreases in non-Hispanic whites  and Mexican Americans -- but not in blacks -- researchers have  found.
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Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose, or sugar levels, are too high in the body. This may not always be easy to detect, however, since there are different types of the disease, along with different symptoms.
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NEW YORK  - A study of youth in the United States reveals that the incidence of diabetes mellitus in general, and type 1 disease in particular, is highest among non-Hispanic whites, according to a report presented here Tuesday at a media briefing held by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the state Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost -- time in a Mexican jail.
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EL PASO, Texas - About 1.2 million of the 8 million adults living along the US-Mexico border have diabetes, significantly more than previously thought, researchers from the two countries announced Wednesday.
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For decades, people with so-called juvenile diabetes have been told that controlling their blood sugar was all they could do to prevent nerve damage that can lead to the amputation of a foot or leg.
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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. federal effort aimed at boosting the health of Hispanic seniors, especially when it comes to diabetes care, is set to launch in eight communities nationwide.
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NEW YORK  - Some seasonal patterns in when  a diagnosis of type I insulin- dependent diabetes is made in  school-age children may reflect the parents' response during  holidays and weekends, as well as the availability of  healthcare services, according to Scottish researchers.