The difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes is that people with type 2 have a wider variety of treatment options.

Diabetes is increasingly affecting children, making early recognition crucial for proper treatment and lifelong health. While both type 1 and type 2 diabetes involve issues with blood sugar regulation ...

The word “diabetes” serves as an umbrella term covering conditions that share a common symptom—elevated blood sugar—but diverge significantly in their underlying mechanisms, progression patterns, and ...

Diabetes affects 37 million people in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates another 96 million people – or 1 in 3 adults – have prediabetes, a condition where blood sugar ...

The truth became unavoidable: the traditional school setting was never going to be able to meet our daughter's needs.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University found gene clusters that could help explain how type 2 diabetes presents in different ...

Once known as “juvenile” diabetes, type 1 diabetes was long considered a childhood disease. Although the condition is often diagnosed in children and teenagers, it can develop at any age. Type 1 ...

COVID-19 infection didn't appear to precipitate a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in kids, a prospective multinational cohort study suggested. Researchers tested more than 4,500 adolescents every few ...

A recent study analyzed individuals from diverse backgrounds and identified various genetic clusters involved in a broad range of biological mechanisms that may help explain ancestry-associated ...

An investigational once-weekly insulin was noninferior to a daily option for patients with type 2 diabetes, but proved risky for those with type 1 diabetes, the phase III QWINT-2 and -5 trials showed.