Diabetes is a slow and often "silent disease. Most people who have it feel fine initially. By the time they develop symptoms, years of elevated blood sugar (glucose) have already caused widespread damage and complications, including cardiovascular disease, nerve damage and...
When a man develops type 2 diabetes could determine his risk for a heart attack, a study has found. In fact, men...
Having both breast cancer and diabetes greatly increases the chances of dying, recent research shows. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis, or pooled analysis,...
Many health-conscious consumers adopt low-carb eating habits to lose weight and ward off heart disease and diabetes. But be careful-it can backfire....
Certain basic nutritional truths keep reasserting themselves. For instance, it seems blatantly obvious that we could save lots of money researching the...
A preliminary study reports that people with type 2 diabetes were able to get injections of a new insulin drug just three...
Researchers report that taking the diabetes drug Actos helped people who had pre-diabetes avoid or at least delay getting type 2 diabetes....
New research suggests that the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes may be linked to an immune system reaction gone...
Newly proposed national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollutants from power plants could prevent as many as 17,000...
It may be hard to think of radiation as a present and serious environmental health concern in the United States, much less...
Dangerous chemicals are all around us—even in everyday items that we think of as safe. Some of the most common dangers—...
Scientists studying the genetics of bedbugs believe they know how the critters become resistant to pesticides, and the finding could someday help...