Many lacking good diabetes care
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Less than a third of people with diabetes receive all the recommended tests, a national audit shows.
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Four in five children are not achieving recommended blood sugar levels, research shows.
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Diabetes patients often neglect the most important treatment for saving lives: lowering cholesterol.
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NEW YORK  - Patients with tuberculosis and diabetes do not respond as well to tuberculosis therapy as those who are non-diabetic, Dutch researchers report.
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PHILADELPHIA A new study says diabetics treated by the VA health system get better care than diabetics under managed health .
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Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease which until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said on Tuesday.
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New research shows that many people who have heart disease - or are at risk of developing it owing to factors such as being overweight - also have undiagnosed diabetes, which increases their chance of an early death.
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A new analysis of studies strongly suggests that people with diabetes keep tight reins on their blood sugar levels if they want to ward off heart disease.
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NEW YORK  - Many improvements in diabetes care occurred during the first 4 years of the Diabetes Health Disparities Collaborative (HDC) program, a national improvement initiative conducted in community health centers. According to authors of the study, published in the current issue of Health Services Research, these improvements will be cost-effective in the long run.
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Four out of five children with diabetes are not reaching recommended blood glucose levels, research has revealed. An audit of almost 12,000 youngsters found that 80% were not hitting targets for blood glucose
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Care offered to people with long term conditions such as asthma and diabetes to be overhauled.
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National studies have found that more than 90 million Americans are unable to adequately understand basic health information.
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NEW YORK  - The percentage of U.S. adults with diabetes who have their blood sugar levels under control, as indicated by glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) levels of less 7 percent, increased between 1999 and 2004, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.
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NEW YORK  - While the treatment of people with diabetes who suffer a heart attack has improved, along with subsequent survival rates, mortality is still higher than in non-diabetics, a study shows.
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Many lack health insurance because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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The treatment of Type 2 diabetes must place more emphasis on tackling potentially fatal complications such as heart disease, experts have warned.
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NEW YORK  - People who develop diabetes late in life often suffer from a range of diabetes-related complications, and their life expectancy is shorter than that of nondiabetic individuals of the same age, a new study shows.