Nutty diet may help ward off diabetes
Eating lots of nuts or peanut butter may help ward off diabetes, a study of more than 83,000 nurses suggests.
( LINDSEY TANNER, Associated Press, 11/27/2002 07:16 AM PST)

Stem cells may help diabetics
Embryonic stem cells were turned into insulin-making tissue that was able to keep diabetic mice alive in an experiment that experts say is an important step toward a new treatment for diabetes.
( PAUL RECER, Associated Press, 11/19/2002 06:23 AM PST)

Cooking tips may help diabetics
Cooking food at minimum safe temperatures for short periods of time may lower the risk of heart disease for diabetics.
( PAUL RECER, Associated Press, 11/12/2002 06:40 AM PST)

Conference to focus diabetes in blacks
Diabetes is a disease that the African-American community knows only too well. One in four African-American women 50 or older is diabetic. Black men are nearly twice as likely to die of the disease as white men. Rates of complication from the disease, such as kidney failure or amputations, are higher among the African-American community.
( By JAYMI FREIDEN, Staff Writer, 11/07/2002 07:15 AM PST)

Diabetes and its costs: Worry grows
About one out of every six Pennsylvania hospital stays involved diabetes last year, generating a total bill of more than $6 billion, according to a new state report. The nearly 300,000 cases represent a 17 percent increase from 1997.
( By Marian Uhlman, Inquirer Staff Writer, 11/04/2002 06:46 AM PST)

UK to test diabetes vaccine
Most people have never heard of "type 11/2" diabetes -- or a possible vaccine to treat it. But diabetes researchers at the University of Kentucky and four other sites nationally are testing a vaccine for a common but unfamiliar type of adult-onset diabetes.
( By Barbara Isaacs, HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER, 11/01/2002 08:56 AM PST)

Online program helps diabetics manage their condition
Cerner Corp. and Health Midwest on Monday launched a joint program that enables diabetes patients to use their home computers to help manage their condition.
( By JULIUS A. KARASH, The Kansas City Star, 10/23/2002 08:08 AM PST)

Diabetic walks to raise money for research
Jenny Edwards hoped the doctor would tell her she was overreacting when she took her daughter in. But 9-year-old Julie wasnt sleeping and didnt look well, and within minutes of seeing her, the doctor told Edwards to take her daughter to the hospital.
( By JAYMI FREIDEN, Staff Writer, 10/21/2002 06:38 AM PST)

Rapid Early Growth Linked to Type 1 Diabetes
Babies and toddlers who grow relatively quickly may have a higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes before adolescence, according to a new report. But the role a child's diet and duration of breast-feeding might have in this link remains unclear, the authors say.
( BY DANA FRISCH, Reuters, 10/17/2002 08:29 AM PST)