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Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, but it may also give older women a better chance of living to the grand old age …

Taking oral semaglutide may reduce heart-related hospitalizations and deaths among those with a history of heart failure and type 2 diabetes, a new analysis suggests. Data from a trial funded …

High blood sugar spikes after meals could be a contributing factor to Alzheimer’s risk, according to a new study that gives us more insight into the relationship between diabetes, insulin …

The levels of caffeine in your blood could affect the amount of body fat you carry, a factor that in turn could determine your risk of developing type 2 diabetes …

This year, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) officially recognized a fifth form of diabetes, after decades of controversy. It’s now urging other health authorities, like the World Health Organization (WHO), …

A compound produced by gut bacteria could play a vital role in managing and preventing type 2 diabetes, according to a study led by researchers from Imperial College London (ICL). …

This week in science: researchers functionally cure type 1 diabetes in mice; a strange new organism could represent a completely unknown branch of the tree of life; a physicist ponders …

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven’t been exactly sure how it works. A recent …

A specially devised hybrid treatment has shown tremendous potential for treating type 1 diabetes in mice, scoring full marks at preventing the condition in prediabetic animals and at reversing the …

A major new clinical trial involving more than 1,600 people has found that a GLP-1 pill form of the drug orforglipron works about as well as injectable semaglutide for people …