The McLean County Health Department will offer a free PreventT2 (Prevent Type 2 diabetes) LifeStyle Change Program starting this month.

Dec. 18, 2024 — Until now, scientists have been unable to determine how metformin, a Type 2 diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar, works. A study provided direct evidence in mice that it ...

About 1 in 3 adults in the United States have prediabetes, a condition where blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but ...

The hemoglobin A1C is a measure of longer-term glucose control – which is important because blood sugar constantly changes from day to day. Specifically, ...

Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization ... having asthma or chronic lung disease, having diabetes or a blood disorder such as sickle cell disease, or having ...

Chagas disease is among a list of infectious diseases for which testing via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) laboratories has been temporarily paused as of December 12 ...

As her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention winds down, Mandy Cohen is in persuasion mode — simultaneously trying to convince critics of the CDC in the incoming ...

Losing weight can be an important part of managing diabetes. Diabetes is a condition that affects how your body processes glucose (sugar). Your body either doesn’t produce enough insulin (a ...

The CDC warns about the resurgence of carfentanil, a fentanyl analog 100 times stronger, causing a 700% spike in overdose deaths in 2024. This synthetic opioid, often mixed with other drugs ...

Testing of samples taken from a child in California thought to have contracted H5N1 bird flu after drinking raw milk turned up no evidence of influenza viruses, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 9amHealth, the leading virtual cardiometabolic care platform, announced it received the CDC's Full Plus Recognition for its Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP).