ON 10 July 1976, a reactor at a chemical plant near the small town of Seveso in northern Italy exploded, sending a toxic cloud drifting into the summer sky. Around 18 square kilometres of land was ...

Nonprofit CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), among the largest healthcare companies in the mid-Atlantic region, has made a grant investment of $1.76 million to combat the diabetes epidemic, ...

A landmark paper led by Monash University with partners in the UK and US suggests there may be more than 100 million people with diabetes globally than previously thought. The prevalence of global ...

Almost half the world’s growing number of diabetes patients either do not know they are ill or have not been diagnosed, according to the University of Washington School of Medicine, warning that only ...

Join an in-depth discussion on the state's diabetes epidemic and what can be done to curb this growing healthcare issue. Palmetto Perspectives is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

In modern society, white sugar is frequently demonized as the single greatest culprit behind the global diabetes epidemic, ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (UPI) --An epidemic of Type 2 diabetes continues to plague the United States, leading to calls for reassessing how the disease is diagnosed and treated, experts told UPI. As many as ...

In the United States, over 30 million people suffer from diabetes, while nearly 98 million are classified as pre-diabetic. Unfortunately, rather than addressing the fundamental lifestyle factors that ...

A major international study collating and analyzing worldwide data on diabetes since 1980 has found that the number of adults with the disease reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number ...

Researchers have called for hearing tests to become a standard part of diabetes care and for hearing loss to be recognised as a significant complication of the condition. Dr Mehwish Nisar from UQ’s ...

Having a “touch of sugar” is not an inevitable part of African American life – neither is losing a foot or some other appendage to diabetes. Learning the right things to do if you have it and learning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost half of the world's people with diabetes don't even know they have the condition, scientists are warning. Klaus-Dietmar ...