According to a new study published online in Diabetologia, obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes may experience changes in their brains that affect how well they are learning in school. Cognitive and brain impairments, have been documented in adults with type 2 diabetes who also have multiple co-morbid disorders...

Novo Nordisk, a world leader in diabetes care, and Indy Lights race car driver Charlie Kimball announced the availability of a wide array of resources to help kids with diabetes have a positive and rewarding summer camp experience.  Kimball, who has type 1 diabetes, will hand out one of these resources today to attendees at the Children...

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) issued a statement expressing extreme disappointment in the California Court of Appeal ruling in the case of American Nurses Association et al. v. O’Connell, which prevents non-medical school personnel from volunteering to administer insulin to California schoolchildren who are not yet able...

Diabetes UK reports that a group of over 100 diabetes experts from across Scotland and the UK has called for legislative action to ban all forms of advertising of unhealthy foods to children in order to reduce increasing obesity levels and risk of  type 2 diabetes. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) convened a...

Researchers at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans have found a major difference in the hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) response to blood glucose between African-American and Caucasian children with diabetes, EurekAlerts reports. African-American children test significantly higher than Caucasians who have similar average blood glucose...

Bayer Diabetes Care announced the introduction of the DIDGET™ blood glucose monitoring system in the United States. The Didget meter is unique because it is the only blood glucose meter that connects directly to Nintendo DS™ and DS Lite gaming systems to help kids manage a lifelong disease by rewarding them for building consistent...

According to a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders, about 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military service, CNN reports. The leading medical reason is being overweight or obese. The Army’s body fat limit for women in the 21-27 age range, with no prior service is...

According to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens, extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, and 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys now classified as extremely obese. In the study, reported by EurekAlert, researchers used measured height and weight in...

A new study, reported by Reuters, has found that children in the U.S. snack so often that they are moving toward constant eating. The study conducted by Carmen Piernas and Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina found that 27 percent of calories that American kids consume come from snacks, and that the average child eats...

A new study published in the online version of the journal Pediatrics, found that efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought, perhaps even before birth. The study, reported by EurekAlert, tracked 1,826 women,  (1,343 white, 355 black and 128 Hispanic) from pregnancy through their children’s...