Gestational diabetes is diabetes that can develop during pregnancy. It affects women who don't already have another type of diabetes. It means you have high blood sugar and need to take extra care of ...

Causes of type 1 diabetes It’s normal to wonder if something you’ve done could have caused your type 1 diabetes – or a child’s type 1 diabetes. But there’s nothing you could have done to prevent it.

With the right treatment and support, it is possible to live well with diabetes. But without it, devastating diabetes complications can develop, and every week diabetes leads to 2,990 cases of heart ...

Making strides with stem cells. The stem cell therapy research is being led by a biotech company called Vertex.They’re running an early-stage clinical trial in the US testing a new approach to ...

Dr Elizabeth Robertson is Director of Research at Diabetes UK. She said: “ We are delighted to be partnering with the NIHR to fund the next critical step in our mission to make type 2 diabetes ...

New cases of diabetes. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, doctors started to raise concerns around new cases of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in people who had caught the virus.. Type 1 ...

World-leading diabetes expert Professor May Ng has been awarded an OBE for her work in improving diabetes care for children and young people. Save for later Page saved! You can go back to this later ...

Australian scientists have explored a new approach to restore insulin-producing cells, opening the door to potential new treatments that could eliminate the need for regular insulin injections in type ...

New research has revealed that using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse photos taken during routine diabetes eye screenings can predict whether people with type 2 diabetes are likely to develop ...

Our prediction is based on analysis of statistics from Public Health England and The Association of Public Health Observatories. It means that as many as 1-in-10 UK adults could be living with ...

Rising numbers of children living with obesity . Data from NHS Digital released earlier this year has revealed that childhood obesity rates have seen the largest rise since records began in 2006..

Smart insulin pens are an exciting recent development for people with diabetes. They can show you if you’ve missed an injection as well as how much insulin you’ve taken and the last time you injected.