When you have Type 1 diabetes, you need to use insulin, a hormone normally produced in the pancreas, because your body doesn’t make it. Some people with Type 2 diabetes — but not all — also use ...

A study has provided new insights into the role of the brain as a crucial control center and the origin of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The hormone insulin plays a key role in the development of ...

When you eat sugar, your pancreas releases insulin — the digestive hormone that scuttles sugar into your cells to keep your blood sugar levels stable. Insulin helps prevent dangerously high blood ...

A Garvan-led clinical trial has found that using a common and inexpensive type 2 diabetes drug reduces insulin needs in type ...

Many people with diabetes worry if insulin can make them gain weight. Doctors say insulin helps the body use sugar the right ...

Though insulin resistance and diabetes are not the same, they are related, and one can influence the other. Treatment may depend on what’s causing insulin resistance and if you’ve been diagnosed with ...

Researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany have found that women become more sensitive to the effects of insulin during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, and less sensitive to it ...

On a “bad diabetes day,” as Sammie Delaney Young calls it, her blood sugar level goes on a rollercoaster ride, even when she’s doing everything right. Young, 25, is one of approximately 3 million ...