In a year that will be remembered for swine flu and health care reform, the American Diabetes Association today released a year-in-review list on another topic that received major headlines in 2009: diabetes. The list focuses on achievements made in 2009 to stop diabetes.

More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of the Ethnicity and Disease journal. The study also found that Korean-American and Chinese-American women’s gestational diabetes risk [...]

Breastfeeding a child may lower a woman’s risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes in women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that was published online ahead of print and will appear in the February issue of Diabetes, a journal of the American Diabetes Association. The protective association was [...]

A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online in the Annals of Surgery. The report illustrates the findings of the first international consensus conference — Diabetes Surgery Summit (DSS) — where an international group of more than 50 scientific and medical experts agreed on a set of evidence-based guidelines and definitions that are [...]

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin – a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes – and core body temperature. While much research has been conducted on insulin since its discovery in the 1920s, this is the first time the [...]