A TYPE 1 diabetes drug about to be offered on the NHS is the biggest medical breakthrough against the condition since insulin a century ago, say experts. Teplizumab is given through a drip every ...

Stopping insulin in Type 1 diabetes can rapidly trigger fatal diabetic ketoacidosis, making insulin essential for survival.

Dr Anoop Misra and Dr Ambrish Mithal explain why insulin injections can't be replaced by a pill. Here is what happened to a ...

Type 1 diabetes researcher Anette Ziegler has never believed the word impossible. Important steps in her career have been driven by a spirit of opening new paths and constantly pushing beyond ...

A surprising new clinical trial has revealed that metformin—a cheap, century-old drug widely used for type 2 diabetes—may help people with type 1 diabetes in an unexpected way. While researchers ...

A 26-year-old with Type 1 diabetes died after replacing insulin with diabetes pills. Doctors explain why insulin is ...

Researchers are developing a two-part therapy for type 1 diabetes: lab-made insulin-producing cells paired with custom-engineered immune cells that protect them. The goal is to stop the immune system ...

LAS VEGAS — Off-label use of GLP-1 drugs by people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) did not lead to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) or pancreatitis in a large 1-year single-center study. Moreover, GLP-1 agonist ...

It’s time to consider screening all children for early signs of type 1 diabetes, a new study suggests. In the United States, only individuals who have family members with the disease or a known ...

When Amanda Smith walked into the kitchen one night in 2015 to warm up a bottle for her four-month-old daughter, she couldn’t make out the numbers on the microwave. They were blurry. They’d never been ...

As increasing numbers of people with type 1 diabetes live into old age, a large new study has found they face almost three times the risk of developing dementia compared to people without the ...