The Latest Breaking News from diabetes

Kate Moss’s daughter Lila Moss says the launch of the first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes is ‘completely surreal’

Doll with insulin pump and glucose monitor is latest in range designed ‘to enable more children to see themselves’

For more than a century, type 1 diabetes has meant one thing: a lifetime administering insulin. But for the first time, science is breaking that paradigm – not by managing the disease, but by intercepting it before symptoms even appear.

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New drug offers future hope that people with type 1 diabetes will not need to take insulin

A handful of people are being given the medicine on a case-by-case basis while it is reviewed for wider use on the NHS.

The ‘severe, persistent, and disruptive’ shortages often impact patients with ADHD, menopause and diabetes, a new report says

The findings also highlight how shortages severely impact patients with conditions like ADHD, menopause and diabetes.

For years, scientists have believed that inflammation inevitably increases with age, quietly fuelling diseases like heart disease, dementia and diabetes. But a new study of Indigenous populations challenges that idea and could reshape how we think about ageing itself.

Letters: Readers respond to Guardian coverage of health inequalities in Britain and the government’s 10-year plan for the health service

New study builds on years of research tying processed foods to higher risks of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.