Symptoms of heart disease and diabetes usually seen in adults are increasingly being found in adolescents according to a longitudinal study, which suggests that reducing the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages during childhood may lessen the risk of chronic disease in later life.

New diabetes treatment strategy may be provided by the discovery of a critical role for sensory nerves in diabetes.

Chemists and biologists find gene which might - if defect - contribute to the development of Type II diabetes

A newly developed non-invasive, diabetes screening device was shown to outperform conventional blood tests, and may be ideally suited to detecting the more than 70 million individuals worldwide who have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, according to research findings presented in Capetown today at the 19th World Diabetes Congress of the International Diabetes Federation.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Eli Lilly and Company today announced a long-term funding relationship to identify, test and publish practical solutions to improve outcomes for people with diabetes throughout the world.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has published new data indicating the enormity of the diabetes epidemic. Data published today in the Federation's Diabetes Atlas show that the disease now affects a staggering 246 million people worldwide, with 46% of all those affected in the 40-59 age group. Previous figures underestimated the scope of the problem, while even the most pessimistic predictions fell short of the current figure.

Physicians who once treated mainly elderly patients for health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke are seeing increasingly younger patients who have the same ailments.