The International Diabetes Federation officially recognized a fifth form of the disease this year, a landmark step that comes ...

For people living with type 1 diabetes, it pays to be good at math. Keeping blood glucose in a healthy range requires a constant stream of calculations: counting the carbs in each meal, and then ...

Insulin is a hormone your body makes that helps it control your blood sugar level and metabolism — the process that turns the food you eat into energy. Your pancreas makes insulin and releases it into ...

With type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune system attacks cells in the pancreas that produce the glucose-lowering hormone insulin. Without insulin to convert sugar into energy for cells, glucose levels ...

New work reported in Developmental Cell by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has demonstrated that a protein known to control nerve cell development also acts on the pancreas, prompting the ...

The investigational insulin-only iLet Bionic Pancreas (Beta Bionics) reduced A1c without increasing hypoglycemia in adults and children with type 1 diabetes with greater automation than currently ...

Researchers at Yale and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found the first evidence that the human fetus can spontaneously produce insulin outside the pancreas — in the small intestine, ...

Everyday habits such as heavy drinking and unhealthy eating can gradually damage the pancreas. Once injured, the consequences ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Beta Bionics's iLet ACE Pump and the iLet Dosing Decision Software for people ages 6 years and older with type 1 diabetes. Working together with a ...

Type 1 diabetics suffer from a lack of beta cells in the pancreas, which are responsible for insulin production. Although glucose monitoring and insulin injections allows the disease to be managed, ...

Last year the FDA approved the first artificial pancreas for general use. The technology is designed to automatically monitor and inject insulin as needed, in patients with type 1 diabetes. Now a team ...

The device marks a major step toward an "artificial pancreas." Medtronic plc announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its MiniMed 670G system, the first Hybrid ...