For many, diabetes is seen as a condition only faced by older adults—a so-called “disease of aging,” with the typical image of grey-haired grandparents managing medications and monitoring sugar. But ...

Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact of this increasingly common autoimmune disease. Diabetes, both type 1 and ...

Type 1 diabetes symptoms can appear quickly in children and babies - here are the key warning signs parents should watch for ...

A chronic, irreversible and life-long condition, Diabetes affects millions of people worldwide - for those who have this condition, it is either Type 1, or Type 2 diabetes. While both of them cause ...

Each year, about 18,000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the United States. And that number is increasing at a rate of 2.9% each year. Those statistics mean more and more ...

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and that means it's time to check yourself for symptoms.Every 26 seconds someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with diabetes, joining the nearly half of Americans who ...

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 ...

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...