A new study by University of Pittsburgh researchers has found that women who exclusively breastfeed their children for at least one month are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The researchers studied the records of 2233 women, including 1828 mothers of which 56% breastfed their children for at least one month. The researchers...

Dr. William R. Kirtley, a medical researcher pioneer who helped develop drugs after World War II that greatly improved the lives of diabetics, has died at the age of 96. Kirtley was part of a research team at Eli Lilly & Company in Indianapolis that conducted groundbreaking research on diabetes drugs after the war. Kirtley won...

Health Canada is informing Canadians that Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. has agreed to voluntarily recall two lots (YW60335 and YW60351) of their product, GlucaGen Hypokit (DIN 02333627) currently available on the Canadian market. Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. is requesting that wholesalers, pharmacies and hospitals immediately stop sale and recall...

Novo Nordisk announced today the availability of NovoDoseTM – the first-ever mobile insulin dosing guide for physicians to look up dosing guidelines and blood glucose goals for their patients with diabetes, a disease that affects nearly 24 million Americans. The guide is available as an application on iTunes and is specific to Novo...

The continuing controversy surrounding the cardiovascular risk of GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia has led to sharp declines in its use and a surge in sales of the competing drug, Actos. Although the drugs are similar and both had FDA warnings in 2007, Takeda’s Actos has been perceived to be safer for the treatment...

Raise up your asparagus spear and fight!  Diabetes UK is funding research into foods such as garlic, chicory, asparagus and artichokes, according to a report in Telegraph.  These foods, known as fermentable carbohydrates, are thought to activate the release of gut hormones that reduce appetite.  It is believed such fermentable...

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, the world’s top producer of insulin, spent $375,000 lobbying the U.S. government in the second quarter of 2010 on several diabetes-related issues, among other topics, according to a Bloomberg report The amount marks a 13 percent reduction from $430,000 during the same period last year and a reduction...

Eating green leafy vegetables may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. According to the study published in the British Medical Journal, increasing daily consumption of green leafy vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The researchers investigated the independent effects of intake of fruit and...

California high school right-hander Dylan Covey has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and will honor his commitment to play college baseball at the University of San Diego, bypassing signing a professional contract with the Milwaukee Brewers who drafted him with the 14th overall pick. Covey said that college baseball would be...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that nearly 30 percent of U.S. diabetics over the age of 40 may have a diabetes-related eye disorder, with 4 percent of this population affected severely enough that their vision is threatened. The researchers found that men had a significantly higher...