As the linked epidemics of obesity and diabetes continue to escalate, a staggering one in five U.S. adults is projected to have diabetes by 2050. Ground zero for identifying ways to slow and stop that ...

Type 2 diabetes is a serious and expensive health condition. Two problems in the U.S. — overweight or obesity and a sedentary lifestyle — are also two of the most common causes for the disease, ...

-- IDF World Diabetes Congress Marks Major Milestone and Availability of Tools in 68 Countries, 31 Different Languages This October marks the one-year anniversary of the international launch of the ...

New data released by Diabetes Australia shows that as of June 30, 2015, more than 1.17 million Australians were registered as having diabetes — making up 4.9 per cent of the population. A newly ...

First, we had the “stroke belt,” a swath of the American South characterized by those with unmanaged high blood pressure and a sedentary lifestyle. Then, we got the “obesity belt,” a portion of ...

The sequencing of the human genome represents a major milestone that will have profound consequences for the practice of medicine. Many new disease genes will be identified, and this information may ...

There are about 100 trillion cells that make up the human body. A new mega-science endeavor will catalog and image each of the 200 or more types of cells from the 80 known organs and identify the ...

A mapping study into areas where people are at most risk of developing type 2 diabetes has shown that parts of east London have been prone to poverty and ill health for the last hundred years or more.