Melissa Glim

The latest United States Preventive Service Task Force screening guidelines for diabetes, released in October 2015, miss 55% of high-risk individuals with prediabetes or diabetes, a new study shows.

Family members of diabetics can be stressed by worry, wondering what to do about a hypoglycemic attack or fretting over the patient's job security. A new study looks at the impact of diabetes on these caregivers.

Diabetics who need CABG surgery have better outcomes when surgeons perform total arterial revascularization.

A simple new blood test can accurately predict Type 2 diabetes risk better than traditional glucose measures among women with gestational diabetes.

When it comes to diabetes nutrition, patients do best when they get specific instructions on what and how to eat.

Low birth weight caused by genetic factors appears to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

Prevalence of type 1 diabetes has risen in many parts of the world. In one way, that may be a good thing. It could mean that people with diabetes are living longer.

Can having a chronic disease define who you are?

A study of drug-trial enrollment in diabetes research showed researchers are routinely excluding women of childbearing age, even when there is little if any risk associated with pregnancy.

A new study may explain why nightshift works have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.

Medical economists estimate Crohn's disease is responsible for $3.48 billion in total national costs (expected to increase to $3.72 billion in 2025).

Children with perinatal HIV who have been exposed to violence, or whose caregivers have been assaulted as adults, appear to have higher unsuppressed viral loads and lower CD4 levels compared with kids without violence exposure.

Kids with type 1 diabetes may be at higher risk for vitamin D deficiency.

A test for acute HIV infection should be offered to those who report having symptoms within the last two weeks, not just those experiencing them at the time of testing, a new study suggests.

Serving people living with HIV means coordinating myriad programs and agencies. Two new studies suggest ways to do that efficiently.

The quest for manufactured insulin that mirrors the real thing has progressed a step forward.

Developing Type 2 diabetes in childhood or adolescence carries a greater risk for complications and death than for those who develop the disease in middle age

Delayed-release metformin designed to target the lower intestine with reduced absorption into the blood leads to similar glucose-lowering effects, but at a lower dose and reduced systemic exposure.

If your diabetic patients are feeling a pinch in their pockets, insulin costs may be to blame.

Treating a rare genetic form of diabetes with oral medications may do more harm than good.

Treating diabetes in the frail elderly may require different treatment goals.

There’s bad news for people with diabetes who use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. Contrary to some previous reports, CPAP will not boost diabetes control.

Antigen mimicry may become an effective strategy in preventing type 1 diabetes.

Since controlling diabetes has an effect on breast tissue, diabetes treatment may lessen breast cancer risk, a Danish study found.

When it comes to diabetes screening, big data may uncover more cases. A California team came up with a new algorithm that assesses risk.

Why would the pancreas need a bacteria-killing protein when it isn’t normally exposed to bacteria? A Canadian team has the answer.

Predictive models of type 2 diabetes risk may not work as well in assessing African American patients, a study found.

A new, prospective study is shedding light on complications associated with adult spinal deformity surgery.

Targeting the formix, researchers in Arizona said electronic stimulation appeared to help Alzheimer's patients.

Pediatric diabetes and kidney complications related to it are on the rise, a new analysis of insurance data shows.