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Blood tests catch diabetes too late, warn researchers
Current methods of diagnosing type 2 diabetes should be 'urgently revised' after a study found blood...
GP workload driven up by 'over-medicalisation' of patients
Nearly a third of diabetes risk assessments identify that patients are at risk of developing the con...
One in three adults on the cusp of developing diabetes
More than a third of the adult population in England have pre-diabetes and are at risk of developing...
Brief exercise boosts blood sugar control
Short bursts of intense exercise before meals could improve blood sugar control in patients with pre...
Watchdog alert over faulty diabetes monitors
The UK's medicines watchdog has warned patients with diabetes to check their blood glucose monitors ...
Stressful life raises diabetes risk by third
Living a stressful life can increase the chance of developing diabetes by as much as a third, resear...
Diabetes treatment response determined by genetic variation
Genetic variation plays a large part in explaining why metformin is much better at lowering blood gl...
Blood test has potential to detect undiagnosed inherited diabetes cases
A widely available and cheap blood test has 'great potential' to detect thousands of undiagnosed cas...
GPs to screen 'all adults' for diabetes
GPs could be forced to screen almost all adults for risk of type-2 diabetes and offer blood tests to...
Type-1 diabetes should be considered in older people
Type-1 diabetes should be considered in all older people with normal BMI presenting with new-onset d...