type 2 diabetes

Genetic screening can help identify people at risk for type 2 diabetes, but it adds little to traditional methods for determining risk, two new studies show.

Helping your kids to appreciate fitness and exercise is not that difficult a task and the benefits are tremendous and just think you might get into shape while helping them!

With the increase in child obesity and juvenile type 2 diabetes it is important for you to assist your kids in appreciating exercise and developing life long weight and fitness goals.

Here are 3 tips you can use to help your kids appreciate fitness and exercise.

Bronx first-grader Mariah Lowe-Berrien is only 6, but she stands out for her sweet personality and unusual size.

She's the height of a fifth-grader and weighs 140 pounds. She's also one of the youngest patients in the country taking metformin, a Type 2 diabetes drug commonly associated with obesity.

ATLANTA (AP) -- In an Oct. 30 story about U.S. diabetes rates, The Associated Press erroneously said that with Type 2, diabetics do not produce or use insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar into energy.

The correct explanation is that in Type 2 diabetes, cells do not use insulin properly and the pancreas gradually loses its ability to produce it....

Only 30% of men with diabetes say they know a lot about the symptoms or conditions related to type 2 diabetes, according to a survey.

(Journal of Clinical Investigation) This release contains summaries, links to PDFs and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, September 5, 2008, in the JCI: "How STDs increase the risk of becoming infected with HIV"; "HIV-stimulated immune cells generate cells with immunosuppressive properties"; "How immune cells help tumors grow blood vessels"; "Type 2 diabetes under stress"; and "Stuck on you: FGF proteins help ensure cells lining blood vessels stick together."

CHICAGO -- A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on their way to meeting tougher U.S. arsenic stand...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on their way to meeting tougher U.S. arsenic standards as the data were collected....

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Type 2 diabetes drugs aiming to pass FDA muster should be required to consider long-term cardiovascular safety as part of the approval mix, according to agency advisers.

A new study says people with Type 2 diabetes are more likely to be depressed - and vice versa. Doctors concede they need to study patients more closely to determine whether the disease is causing depression or whether depression could lead to Type 2 diabetes.