Diabetes news
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Report Backs Proactive Pediatric-Adult Diabetes Care Handoff
17 September 2026 · Medscape
A new consensus report from the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and the American Diabetes Association calls for a more deliberate transition from pediatric to adult diabetes care. The report, published in *Diabetes Care*, recommends that…
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UF study identifies immune cells that may help sustain Type 1 diabetes attack
16 September 2026 · UF Health
UF Health reports that University of Florida researchers have identified a population of stem-like immune T cells that may help keep the autoimmune attack in Type 1 diabetes going for years. The study, published in the *Journal of Clinical Investigation*, was led by Leeana Peters, Ph. D., a postdoctoral fellow in Todd…
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Health Ministry warns over late diabetic foot care
15 September 2026 · Fiji Sun
Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services warned that patients with severe diabetic foot infections are often arriving at health facilities too late, reducing the chances of saving affected limbs and increasing the likelihood of amputation. The Ministry emphasized that amputation is treated as a last resort, used…
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Persistent ketoacidosis risk found with SGLT2 diabetes drugs
14 September 2026 · The Pharmacist
A large Scandinavian observational study suggests that people with type 2 diabetes taking SGLT2 inhibitors remain at risk of ketoacidosis throughout treatment, not only soon after starting therapy. The study, published in *The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology*, examined 322,597 SGLT2 inhibitor treatment periods…
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Type 1 diabetes screening could start at age two under new expert guidance
13 September 2026 · diabetes.co.uk
diabetes.co.uk reports on new international expert guidance, published in *Diabetologia*, recommending that children could be screened for early-stage type 1 diabetes beginning between ages two and four. The guidance focuses on blood tests for islet autoantibodies, immune markers that can appear before symptoms such…
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Spinal Cord Stimulation Eases Pain and Improves Sensation in People with Diabetic Nerve Damage
12 September 2026 · Newswise
A multicenter randomized clinical trial led by the Pain Outcomes Lab at Wake Forest University School of Medicine found that high-frequency spinal cord stimulation significantly reduced pain and improved sensory function in adults with treatment-resistant painful diabetic neuropathy. The study evaluated 10-kHz spinal…
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Type 1 Diabetes May Actually Be Two Different Diseases, Massive International Study Finds
7 September 2026 · ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert reports on a genome-wide association study suggesting that type 1 diabetes may include at least two biologically distinct subtypes, rather than being one uniform disease pathway. Researchers in the United States and United Kingdom analyzed genetic data from 9,091 people with type 1 diabetes and 14,157…
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Sickle Cell Trait + Diabetes: Why Your A1C May Not Be Accurate
6 September 2026 · Beyond Type 1
Beyond Type 1 explains why A1C, one of the most common diabetes monitoring tools, can be misleading for people with sickle cell trait and other hemoglobin variants. A1C estimates average blood glucose over roughly three months by measuring glycated hemoglobin, but that calculation assumes red blood cells and…
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First global recommendations issued on quitting smoking with type 2 diabetes
5 September 2026 · The Daily Star
An international panel of 35 experts from 13 countries has issued the first dedicated global recommendations for helping people with type 2 diabetes quit smoking. The recommendations, published in *Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice*, were coordinated by the Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm…
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Team-based diabetic foot care could slash major amputations, Myongji doctors say
4 September 2026 · Korea Biomedical Review
Physicians at Myongji Hospital in South Korea said a multidisciplinary approach to diabetic foot disease could sharply reduce major amputations. The hospital presented the model at its first Diabetic Foot Clinic Multidisciplinary Symposium, emphasizing that diabetic foot complications often require coordinated…