Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease (typically arising in younger people) that occurs when your immune system attacks ...

In recent years, effective obesity treatments like Ozempic and Mounjaro have changed lives. These drugs mimic the effects of ...

Insulin is a hormone your body makes that helps it control your blood sugar level and metabolism — the process that turns the food you eat into energy. Your pancreas makes insulin and releases it into ...

As you go about your daily life, you’re probably paying very little heed to a long, hardworking organ that’s nestled behind ...

For people living with type 1 diabetes, it pays to be good at math. Keeping blood glucose in a healthy range requires a constant stream of calculations: counting the carbs in each meal, and then ...

The truth became unavoidable: the traditional school setting was never going to be able to meet our daughter's needs.

The investigational insulin-only iLet Bionic Pancreas (Beta Bionics) reduced A1c without increasing hypoglycemia in adults and children with type 1 diabetes with greater automation than currently ...

Type 1 diabetics suffer from a lack of beta cells in the pancreas, which are responsible for insulin production. Although glucose monitoring and insulin injections allows the disease to be managed, ...

Is diabetes reversible? Here, endocrinologists explain the answer, including which types of diabetes can go into "remission" ...

Since her 2021 diabetes diagnosis, Stephanie Guignard, a nurse practitioner, has made it her mission to educate people on how ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

New work reported in Developmental Cell by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has demonstrated that a protein known to control nerve cell development also acts on the pancreas, prompting the ...