Surgical Treatment Options for Chronic Pancreatitis
This painful condition can lead to malnutrition and diabetes.
Category: Diabetes
Managing Your Child’s Diabetes
Age-specific guidelines for diabetes care.
Children, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Health, Pediatric Medicine
A Growing Epidemic: Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise in Children
Learn why more children are being diagnosed with this condition and how to prevent it. Once upon a time, type 2 diabetes was called adult-onset diabetes because it almost exclusively affected adults. Back then, virtually all children with diabetes had the type 1 form of the disease, but that’s no longer the case. In recent…
Could This Ancient Treatment Cure Diabetes?
Research shows bloodletting could help manage or treat diabetes.
Exploring Bacteria’s Role in Weight Gain and Loss
Research shows “good” bacteria could help treat obesity.
The Different Types of Diabetes, Defined
Understand the differences between type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes
You Have Prediabetes. Now What?
What is prediabetes, and how can you prevent it from becoming type 2 diabetes?
Ten-year study shows steady increase in type 1, 2 diabetes in U.S. ...
The study found there was an average of 1.8 percent increase each year of youth with newly-diagnosed type 1 diabetes and an average of 4.8 percent per year increase of newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes cases among the same population.
Starting the conversation to improve diabetes care
In North Carolina, 1 in 10 people have diabetes. That includes a large number of patients at the Open Door Clinic, a free, student-run clinic in Burlington staffed by volunteers from Elon University, Alamance Community College, and the UNC School of Medicine.