'Insulin pill' hope for diabetes
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People with diabetes may soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
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NEW YORK  - When a child develops diabetes,  it's critical to know if it's the type that requires insulin  treatment or the other version that can be controlled with diet  and exercise.
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A cure for diabetes could be in sight after scientists confirmed they are to test a vaccine against the most serious form of the condition.
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NEW YORK  - For people with type 2 diabetes and moderately elevated blood glucose levels, the medication vildagliptin, sold under the brand name Galvus, can produce long-term improvements in the functioning of the insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreas along with better glucose control, researchers report.
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A study of the humble fruit fly may hold the key to new treatments for human liver diseases and diabetes.
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US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future. Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a
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NEW YORK  - In people with type 2 diabetes, the combination of two anti-diabetes drugs -- sitagliptin and metformin -- improves blood sugar control in a synergistic fashion, a study shows.
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A team of UK scientists is set to test a new vaccine that could represent a cure for type I diabetes, the most serious form of the condition which usually affects the under 40&#39;s.
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Graduate students at the University of Toronto have boosted hopes for an effective diabetes treatment after growing insulin-producing tissue from the single cell of a mouse pancreas.
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Drugmakers are working on experimental diabetes drugs using a novel mechanism to help flush excess blood sugar out of the body, according to results of small studies presented at a medical meeting on Sunday.
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Cell transplants for type 1 diabetes, which hold hope of a cure, to be made available at specialist centres.
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For people with type 2 diabetes, taking an inhaled form of insulin before meals and a single daily injection of long-acting insulin provides blood sugar control comparable to that of a conventional all-injection insulin regimen, researchers report.
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Science & environment: People with diabetes could benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, scientists say
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clozapine and olanzapine -- may carry a small risk of an increased risk of diabetes, new research shows.
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The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its beleaguered chief rival Avandia, a new analysis shows.
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The first human trials of a vaccine against Type 1 diabetes were described as âvery excitingâ by one of the lead researchers today.
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Drug companies are racing to capture the ballooning market in diabetes care. Pfizer Inc. plans to debut Exubra, its new inhaled insulin treatment, in July, and Merck &amp; Co., Novartis AG and Eli Lilly and Co. are awaiting FDA approval for new diabetes products that could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.