Diabetes News

March 22, 2025

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Shaping the Future of Diabetes Treatment With 3D Bioprinting Technology

Mar. 19, 2025 — An innovative platform replicates pancreatic functions, transforming diabetes ...

Managing Your Diabetes Can Help Prevent Associated Vision Loss

Mar. 12, 2025 — Although there is no cure, diabetic retinal disease treatment has improved over the past two ...

Minimal TV Viewing May Be Protective for Heart Diseases Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

Mar. 12, 2025 — A sedentary lifestyle such as watching TV (two or more hours daily) may be a key factor in the risk of developing heart and blood vessel diseases, according to an analysis of health records from a ...

Mother's High-Fat Diet Can Cause Liver Stress in Fetus

Mar. 13, 2025 — When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life. A new study sheds light on changes to the fetus's bile acid, which affects how liver disease develops and ...

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New Tech for Managing Type 1 Diabetes Is Effective for Older Adults

Mar. 11, 2025 — New research suggests that automated insulin delivery (AID) systems are safe and effective for use by older adults with type 1 diabetes. The findings counter common assumptions that older adults ...

Diabetes Drug Could Help Cancer Patients Make Better Recovery

Mar. 5, 2025 — Research shows that a common type of diabetes medication could help cancer patients make a better long-term recovery. Many cancer patients go on to develop heart failure -- because of the cancer ...

Receiving Low-Glucose Alerts Improves Diabetic Drivers' Safety on the Road

Mar. 10, 2025 — A Japanese study has found that the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, equipped with sensors that alert diabetics when their blood sugar levels drop, can potentially make diabetic ...

Links Between Metabolism and Aggressive Breast Cancer

Mar. 6, 2025 — More than 120 million Americans suffer from diabetes or pre-diabetes. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, and TNBC patients with obesity-driven diabetes ...

Early-Life Gut Microbes May Protect Against Diabetes, Research in Mice Suggests

Mar. 6, 2025 — The microbiome shapes development of insulin-producing cells in infancy, leading to long-term changes in metabolism and diabetes risk, new research ...

How to Trick the Body's Metabolism

Mar. 3, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new way in which the liver regulates its consumption of sugar and fat. This could potentially increase the effectiveness of weight-loss and diabetes ...

Researchers Identify Molecular Glues That Protect Insulin-Producing Cells from Damage Related to Diabetes

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a novel approach to protecting insulin-producing beta cells from the damaging effects of glucolipotoxicity - a harmful ...

Obesity: Researchers Discover a Cause of Leptin Resistance -- And How to Reverse It

Mar. 4, 2025 — Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, ...

We Feed Gut Microbes Sugar, They Make a Compound We Need

Mar. 3, 2025 — Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The ...

Lifestyle Choices During Pregnancy Can Impact Child's Motor Development Up to the Age of 5-6 Years

Feb. 25, 2025 — A healthy diet in early pregnancy supports the child's motor development at the age of 5-6 years. Higher maternal body fat mass, on the other hand, ...

Obesity Starts in the Brain

Feb. 28, 2025 — A study has provided new insights into the role of the brain as a crucial control center and the origin of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The hormone insulin plays a key role in the development of ...

Discovery of Rare Gene Variants Provides Window Into Tailored Type 2 Diabetes Treatment

Feb. 26, 2025 — A new study details the discovery of rare gene variants that increase the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in multiple generations of Asian Indian people. The unusual finding is a step toward more ...

Understanding the World Within: Study Reveals New Insights Into Phage--Bacteria Interactions in the Gut Microbiome

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers are investigating whether certain viruses known as bacteriophages, or phages, which specifically infect bacteria but not human cells, affect the development of type 1 diabetes in young ...

Study Shows Primary Care and Telehealth Can Deliver Life-Changing Diabetes Care

Feb. 24, 2025 — Researchers have found that people with diabetes can achieve the same positive results using advanced insulin technology when trained by their primary care providers (PCPs) or through telehealth as ...

Genetic Evidence That Diabetes Drug GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Achieve Weight Loss Primarily by Reducing Fat Mass More Than Muscle

Feb. 24, 2025 — Diabetes and obesity have become pressing health issues worldwide. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, a class of medications widely used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D), ...

Islet Transplantation With Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

Feb. 21, 2025 — Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study. The new approach, which ...

New Molecular Mechanisms Linked to Insulin Resistance

Feb. 19, 2025 — Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In affected people, insulin is unable to ...

A Diabetes, Heart Failure, and Kidney Disease Medication Is the First of Its Kind to Significantly Reduce Both Heart Attacks and Strokes

Feb. 14, 2025 — New research shows sotagliflozin is the only drug in its class to demonstrate these ...

Mouse Study Finds Impaired Cell Development: Intermittent Fasting Could Be Unsafe for Teenagers

Feb. 14, 2025 — A recent study reveals that age plays a significant role in the outcomes of intermittent fasting. Researchers discovered that chronic intermittent fasting disrupted the development of ...

A New Switch for the Cell Therapies of the Future

Feb. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind to ...

Reduced Prediabetes in People Who Ate Broccoli Compound

Feb. 14, 2025 — The chemical compound sulforaphane found in broccoli sprouts can be linked to improved blood sugar levels in prediabetes, a precursor to type 2 diabetes. The broccoli compound had a more significant ...

Diabetes Can Drive the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection ...

Type 1 Diabetes: Hybrid Closed-Loop and Open-Loop Systems Compared

Feb. 12, 2025 — People with type 1 diabetes require continuous insulin treatment and must regularly measure their glucose levels. With open-loop therapies, insulin administration is manually controlled, while hybrid ...

Mitochondria May Hold the Key to Curing Diabetes

Feb. 7, 2025 — Mitochondria are essential for generating energy that fuels cells and helps them ...

Why Some Heavy Drinkers Develop Advanced Liver Disease, While Others Do Not

Feb. 6, 2025 — The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver ...

New Details About Insulin Production Deciphered

Feb. 5, 2025 — How does the body regulate the activity of insulin-producing cells in order to react quickly to changing conditions? Researchers have investigated this ...

Drinking Ketones Improves Heart Health, Study Suggests

Feb. 5, 2025 — Drinking ketones improves heart health, a new small-scale study has ...

Yo-Yo Dieting May Significantly Increase Kidney Disease Risk in People With Type 1 Diabetes

Feb. 4, 2025 — Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index (BMI) and other ...

Gut Microbes May Mediate the Link Between Drinking Sugary Beverages and Diabetes Risk

Jan. 31, 2025 — It's well known that consuming sugary drinks increases the risk of diabetes, but the mechanism behind this relationship is unclear. Now researchers show that metabolites produced by gut microbes ...

A Weekly Injection Could Replace Painful Daily Treatment for Rare Fat Disorder

Jan. 29, 2025 — A diabetes drug may beat costly shots for patients with a rare genetic condition, according to a Rutgers Health ...