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Dylan Covey to Play for the University of San Diego

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...

Retinopathy Common Among Diabetic Adults, Study Shows

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...

PositiveID Files Patent for Innovative Diabetes Management Tool

PositiveID Corporation announced today that it has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an insulin pen tracking and recording device. The Insulin Tracker, a microprocessor-controlled device that slides onto standard insulin pens...

Type 1 Diabetes Associated With Environmental Factors

Improved standards of living and hygiene may be contributing to the rising rate of type 1 diabetes. Researchers from the Washington State Department of Health trying to explain the continuous rise in incidents of type 1 diabetes studied records of children younger than 19 years hospitalizedfor type 1 diabetes in Washington State...

Type 2 Diabetes May Affect Children’s Brains

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...

Vitamin D: Are You Getting Enough?

Low vitamin D levels have been linked to an increased risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, depression and rheumatoid arthritis, among other diseases. And a study published in 2009 in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that 70% of Caucasians, 90% of Hispanics and 97% of African Americans in the US have insufficient blood levels of vitamin D.

Diabetes Drug Prescriptions in England Up By 40%

The cost and number of drugs prescribed to treat diabetes in England has risen by more than 40 percent in the last five years, according to a new National Health Service (NHS) report released today. According to Diabetes UK the NHS Information Centre has found that just over 35.5 million prescription items were dispensed in primary care units across England...

Gestational Diabetes Likely To Recur

Gestational diabetes, or pregnancy-related diabetes, typically occurs around week 24 of pregnancy and is characterized by high blood sugar that results from the body's impaired use of insulin. Researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Medical

Wireless CGM Sensor – A Milestone on the Way to an Artificial Pancreas

Researchers from the University of California San Diego and GlySens Inc. have developed an implantable sensor that measures blood sugar continuously and transmits the information without wires, according to a Reuters report . The device worked in one pig for more than a year and in another for nearly 10 months with no trouble, and the researchers hope to start a human study within a few months...

Diabetes Costs Out of Control In UK, Researchers Say

Researchers from the University of Cardiff, Wales, have found that the British National Health Service (NHS) costs for diabetes drugs, even taking into account the price of inflation, went up by 104% between 2000 - 2008, the BBC reports. According to the researchers the NHS is spending too much on diabetes drugs that account for 7% of the UK prescribing budget...