Diabetes

With 86 million prediabetic Americans, a new mandate creates huge opportunities.

The idea: lower medical costs a lot by spending a little more on social services.

Hundreds of millions of Chinese have moved to the city, leaving behind farmer’s diets.

The Food and Drug Administration says products marketed as natural or homeopathic treatments for diabetes can be dangerous.

The FDA is expected to take another look at controversial diabetes drug Avandia after researchers at Duke have concluded the drug doesn't increase the risk of cardiovascular death as previously reported.

New research says diabetes cost the nation a record $245 billion in 2012, up more than 40 percent in the past five years.

A ballot initiative in Richmond and El Monte proposes a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks. Proponents say it could help prevent diabetes among low-income residents and generate revenue, but the soft drink industry is spending millions to block it.

There's a burgeoning industry of inexpensive classes that promise to train dogs to alert their diabetic owners to a change in their blood sugar.

Publishing in the British Medical Journal, researchers looked at four studies covering 350,000 people in Asia and the West.