To deal with a leaky gut, your body shunts sugar to your immune system, causing insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and ...

Type 1 diabetes begins with your pancreas, but it doesn’t stop there. “The body’s immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas,” says Mihail Zilbermint, ...

Medicines first developed to treat type 2 diabetes are proving to have benefits far beyond controlling blood sugar. A major new study has found that a group of drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists can ...

Disrupted function of 'cleaning cells' in the body may help to explain why some people with obesity develop type 2 diabetes, while others do not. A study describes this newly discovered mechanism.

The autoimmunity associated with type 1 diabetes often begins in the first years of life, and the diagnosis of type 2 ...

Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in America, with over 37 million people living with the condition and another 96 million with prediabetes. While most people associate diabetes with finger ...

Teplizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody to CD3 on T cells, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to delay the onset of clinical type 1 diabetes (stage 3) in patients 8 years of age or ...

Many patients with type 2 diabetes wonder how their blood sugar levels can be high when they have not eaten anything. The ...

How High Cholesterol Affects Your Body: From Heart Disease to Diabetes: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty High cholesterol significantly raises the risk of cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart ...