February was heart month, and this is the third column in a series about the major risk factors for heart attacks. According to the effective Bale-Doneen Method of heart attack prevention, 70 percent ...

If you become resistant to insulin, a condition that is a precursor to type 2 diabetes, your body tries to compensate by producing more of the "beta" cells in the pancreas that produce the critical ...

Diabetes isn't curable because of the cells that produce insulin, the hormone key to helping the body break down blood sugar. These are the beta cells in the pancreas that either can't make enough ...

Stress does no one - not even your insulin-producing cells - any good. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have identified a gene that, when activated by metabolic stress, damages ...

A 42- year-old man with type 1 diabetic begna making his own insulin without daily shots or anti-rejection medication. The breakthrough, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is being ...