Adding to the growing body of research that proves our microbiome is a powerful ally in fighting disease, scientists have ...

Since its landmark discovery in 1922, insulin has improved the health and extended the lives of more than 500 million people worldwide with diabetes mellitus. Yet the question of how this key hormone ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the body mistakenly attacks itself as the immune system destroys the pancreas's insulin ...

Inhaled insulin shows safety and high treatment satisfaction in youth with type 1 diabetes over 26 weeks but does not meet noninferiority criteria for A1c compared with rapid-acting analog insulin.

While type 1 and type 2 diabetes typically occupy distinct places in healthcare, research is showing an increase of patients ...

After collapsing at his job and spending a week in a hospital, Thomas Strathmann of Bozeman, Mont., left with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and two boxes of insulin. He was told they would last “a ...

McGill University researchers have identified a brain function that helps explain why childhood stress raises metabolic ...

Nature study shows a new polymer can deliver insulin through the skin, raising hopes for a painless, needle-free diabetes treatment that performs as effectively as injections ...

Scientists have deciphered how the insulin molecule exploits a protective hinge to engage its primary binding site within the insulin receptor. "We discovered an essential mechanism for how insulin ...