Since its landmark discovery in 1922, insulin has improved the health and extended the lives of more than 500 million people worldwide with diabetes mellitus. Yet the question of how this key hormone ...

Overweight increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body's insulin production ...

McGill University researchers have identified a brain function that helps explain why childhood stress raises metabolic ...

Cognitive performance in adults with obesity and overweight was negatively affected by poor glucose tolerance and increased visceral fat, according to findings published in Obesity. “In addition to ...

When you’ve got a diabetic in your life, there are few moments in any day that are free from thoughts about insulin. Insulin is literally the first coherent thought I have every morning, when I check ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the body mistakenly attacks itself as the immune system destroys the pancreas's insulin ...

After collapsing at his job and spending a week in a hospital, Thomas Strathmann of Bozeman, Mont., left with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and two boxes of insulin. He was told they would last “a ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence suggesting factors other than genes could cause obesity, finding that genetically identical cells store widely differing amounts of fat depending on subtle ...

Insulin activates sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c (SREBP-Ic) in liver, thereby increasing fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis. We created a line of transgenic rats that produce ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a final rule that will allow certificated medical examiners to decide whether truck drivers with stable diabetes are qualified to drive, ...