For millions of people living with diabetes, one of the biggest concerns is protecting their eyesight. Diabetic retinal disease often develops silently, causing damage long before blurry vision or other symptoms appear. Now, researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered blood test that could identify early retinal damage before patients even notice a problem. The technology could one day make it easier for doctors to identify high-risk patients and begin

For families managing type 1 diabetes, every meal, snack, birthday party, and school lunch often comes with another insulin injection. That routine may soon become much easier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Afrezza®, an inhaled mealtime insulin, for children and adolescents ages 6 and older living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. The approval makes Afrezza the first and only needle-free mealtime insulin available for pediatric patients in the United

Watch this story above from WPXI-TV News in Pittsburgh Imagine living with type 1 diabetes for 30 years and suddenly not needing insulin shots or an insulin pump anymore. That's exactly what happened in a new study that has researchers excited. Scientists at the University of Chicago Medicine tested a new treatment that helped every participant who received an islet cell transplant become insulin independent. That means their bodies started making enough insulin on their own

If you've been told to avoid potatoes because of diabetes, new research suggests that advice may need a serious update — because not all potatoes are created equal. A large study published in The BMJ tracked more than 205,000 U.S. health professionals over nearly 40 years and found that eating three servings of French fries per week was linked to a 20% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, while baked, boiled, or mashed potatoes showed no significant increase in risk. It

Credit: Jake Belcher for Tufts University At least a dozen U.S. states are rolling out medically tailored meals in pilot projects through Medicaid, the federal–state health insurance program serving 71 million Americans who qualify based on income or disability status. Now, the first large statewide analysis of Medicaid data finds that people with diabetes, heart disease, depression, and other conditions who received these home-delivered, dietitian-designed meals experienced

For decades, getting diagnosed with diabetes has meant a trip to the doctor, a blood draw, and a wait for results comparing your blood sugar to a clinical cutoff. If you're above the threshold, you have diabetes. If not, you're sent home — even if your metabolism has been quietly struggling for years. Researchers are now calling that system out for what it is: too slow, too blunt, and missing far too many people. A wave of new tools — combining wearable sensors, advanced biom