For some type 2 diabetes patients, needles may be a thing of the past. A recent study shows some patients can control their glucose levels long-term using oral medications.

“Generally, both patients and physicians believe that long-term use of oral diabetic medications is not possible because …

Results of study are published in Diabetes, a journal of the American Diabetes Association
Microspheres carrying targeted nucleic acid molecules fabricated in the laboratory have been shown to prevent and even reverse new-onset cases of type 1 diabetes in animal models. The results of these studies…

By Michael Purdy

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes.

Researchers were able to examine the immune cells from isolated insulin-m…

Resveratrol in grape skins could stop diabetic complications such as heart disease, retinopathy and nephropathy, research finds

Research carried out by scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has found that resveratrol, a compound present naturally in grape skin, c…

Mechanisms suggest new way to treat heart disease among diabetics

Researchers have discovered how diabetes, by driving inflammation and slowing blood flow, dramatically accelerates atherosclerosis, according to research to be published in the March 14 edition of the journal Circulation Research. …

University of Iowa researchers have identified a molecular pathway in blood vessels that controls blood pressure and vascular function and may help explain why certain drugs for type II diabetes also appear to lower patients’ blood pressure. The study is published in the March 5 issue of Cell Metabo…

Revolutionary new ways to tackle certain diseases could be provided by creating drugs which change the bugs in people’s guts, according to a Perspective article published today in the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

Trillions of bugs known as gut microbes live symbiotically in the human gu…

The main regulators of the immune system, called CD4+Treg cells, are thought to be highly involved in a large range of immune diseases. The gradual reduction in their regulating capacity seems to play a critical role in the onset of type 1 diabetes, as demonstrated in the latest study by Dr. Ciriaco…

Immunity-controlling T-cells wane with age in some people, triggering autoimmune diabetes

A research team led by Dr. Ciriaco A. Piccirillo of McGill University’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology has discovered that in some individuals, the specialized immunoregulatory T-cells that regu…

Women with diabetes are 1.5 times more likely to develop colorectal cancer than those who do not have the metabolic disorder, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota. The findings, they say, add to the complex body of evidence linking diet and colorectal cancer and also provide new e…