Researchers are developing a two-part therapy for type 1 diabetes: lab-made insulin-producing cells paired with ...

February was heart month, and this is the third column in a series about the major risk factors for heart attacks. According to the effective Bale-Doneen Method of heart attack prevention, 70 percent ...

If you become resistant to insulin, a condition that is a precursor to type 2 diabetes, your body tries to compensate by producing more of the "beta" cells in the pancreas that produce the critical ...

Just as insulin therapy revolutionized life for people with type I diabetes (TID) a century ago, a new implant may one day do the same by tackling the disease’s biggest challenge—keeping transplanted ...

A new treatment for type 1 diabetes is moving closer to reality. In late 2024, a 46-year-old Swedish man received 17 injections of a unique pancreatic cell cocktail. The cells, donated from a healthy ...

Stress does no one - not even your insulin-producing cells - any good. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have identified a gene that, when activated by metabolic stress, damages ...

A 42- year-old man with type 1 diabetic begna making his own insulin without daily shots or anti-rejection medication. The breakthrough, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is being ...