Type 1 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes in young people. It happens when — for reasons not yet fully understood — the body turns on itself and destroys the cells that produce the hormone ...

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that impairs the body's ability to use or produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the conversion of sugar from food into energy, resulting in dangerously ...

A simple finger-prick blood test can find those at risk so they can get the right treatment.

Kanye West has been candid about his mental health struggles and how his bipolar type-1 diagnosis has affected him. West, who ...

A new consensus report on the management of type 1 diabetes in adults was presented recently at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meetings. This is an EASD/American Diabetes ...

The use of drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound in people with type 1 diabetes has risen sharply over the past decade, a new study finds, even though there’s little information on the drugs’ safety ...

There’s a cliché in the type 1 diabetes community that a cure has been “five years away” for as long as anyone can remember. For decades, patients have been told that researchers were on the verge of ...

Recruitment for next phase of the trial called ELSA 2 launches, expanding screening to include children aged 2-17 ...

November is National Diabetes Month. November is National Diabetes Month, but for the more than a million children and adults in the U.S. living with Type 1 diabetes, every day and night is a constant ...

Receiving a diabetes diagnosis can be bittersweet. You may feel anxious and scared about what lies ahead and relieved knowing you’ll be connected with the right treatment. But what if the diagnosis ...

A large UK study suggests that screening children for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test could help ...

A landmark UK study involving tens of thousands of families has shown that childhood screening for type 1 diabetes is ...