Diabetes News

World Diabetes Day – a day to reflect upon why India has become the diabetic capital of the world with 50.8 million (7.1%) of its people suffering from diabetes. It is high time we prepared ... Read more

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with Japanese and American universities have discovered how a specific gene within the pancreas affects secretion of ins... Read more

Even as diabetes reaches epidemic proportions across the globe, most Indian doctors are now trying to highlight that prevention is actually better than cure for this dreaded disease.
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Tennis player Kyra Shroff will be bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement with Diabetes Award, the Diabetes Care and Research Foundation (DCRF) in Pune has announced.

A statement by... Read more

In Thailand, more than 3 million people are living with diabetes. There is an urgent need to scale up the diabetes prevention and education, says Wittaya Kaewparadai, Minister of Public Heal... Read more

Growing up in Zimbabwe, diabetes (a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood) was something that the old people always talked about, and the fear of the... Read more

Everyday, human beings are bombarded with broadcasts of unhealthy foods on television, radio, newspapers, magazine and on internet. The advertisements create new demands in people which ulti... Read more

During the run up to the four day annual conference on Diabetes organized by the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India, Dr. V. Mohan, a leading diabetes expert from Chennai and... Read more

Diabetes Leadership Forum 2009 seeks solutions to reduce long-term public healthcare costs

"A recent survey showed that the age-standardized rate of diabetes among adults living in u... Read more