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Football fans looking for another team to support ought to consider the Chicago Bears, or at least its star quarterback, Jay Cutler. For each touchdown pass Cutler completes this season, drugmaker Eli Lilly will donate $1,000 to the American Diabetes Association's summer camp, roughly the cost of one camp scholarship. So far, the "Touchdowns for Diabetes" campaign has raised $15,000.
A study found that linemen on a college football team were the only obese ones and were more likely to have high blood pressure and pre-diabetes.
The pancreas of a person with Type 1 diabetes produces no insulin.
Glen Ellyn teen suffers from Type 1 diabetes Five minutes before Glenbard West High School's production of "Kiss Me Kate" was about to begin last month, the star of the show, Madeline Raube, discovered that her insulin pump was missing.
The number of Americans with diabetes may almost double in 25 years, and the annual cost of treating them may triple to $336 billion, according to a study published Friday in the journal Diabetes Care.
According to the National Institute of Health, 40 percent to 45 percent of Americans diagnosed with diabetes already have some stage of diabetic retinopathy.
By Jessica Goodman Times-News Staff Writer For Columbus resident Jeanette Conner, 73, it started 25 years ago with extreme thirst, blurred vision and weight loss. The culprit: type 2 diabetes.
Dodson Elementary School students and faculty spent the last full day before the Thanksgiving holiday outdoors at City Park, performing skits, singing songs, dancing and, most importantly, supporting the American Diabetes Association.
About two years ago, my nephew, Leo, was diagnosed with Juvenile, or Type I diabetes. This precipitated the entire family learning how to test his blood sugar, work his insulin pump, and learn what he can and can't eat.
Women who have gestational glucose intolerance (a condition less severe than gestational diabetes) exhibit multiple cardiovascular risk factors as early as three months after birth, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Cross-country skier Kris Freeman posted the best World Cup finish for an American since 1983 at the recent 15k World Cup in Finland.
