It’s National Pet Diabetes Month

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and Local 4 has news of progress on what is being called the bionic pancreas.

When people talk about diabetes, they often think of children and adults, but you may want to dig a little deeper. Devan Bianco from Michigan Humane joined Jason Carr on “Live in the D” to explain the symptoms of diabetes commonly found in animals.

Sept. 21 is World Alzheimer's Day, a day to raise awareness about the devastating disease and its impact on patients, their families, and caregivers.

Millions of Americans are living with diabetes. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 34 million people in the United States have it, and it can cause nerve pain.

Momentum Health shares some tips on how to treat nerve pain

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is launching an investigation into a drug company that manufactures insulin in the U.S. in an effort to better understand what drives the medication’s high cost.

This Diabetes Awareness Month, one Metro Detroit nonprofit is offering free educational courses to help people learn how to transition to a vegan, or mostly vegan, diet to improve their health and fight diabetes.

More than 3.4 million people in the United States have diabetes, but even more, Americans have prediabetes, according to the CDC.

Researchers at U-M found an explanation for why patients with diabetes are at high risk for developing severe COVID infections.

Researchers at U-M found an explanation for why patients with diabetes are at high risk for developing severe COVID infections.

Michigan Medicine is now offering care to its patients experiencing long haul COVID-19 complications.

ANN ARBOR – Michigan Medicine has partnered with type 1 diabetes research nonprofit JDRF to establish the new JDRF Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan. The goal of the center, through U-M’s Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute, is to accelerate research to cure type 1 diabetes and to improve lives. Ann Arbor resident Elizabeth Weiser Caswell and her father, Regent Ron Weiser, have made leadership gifts to kickstart the project. “Michigan Medicine is the ideal partner for JDRF,” Caswell said in a news release. “The JDRF Center of Excellence and the Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute establishes us as one of the premier diabetes centers in the country—and the strongest in the Midwest,” Thomas Gardner, principal investigator of the JDRF Center of Excellence and EWCDI, said in a news release.

Safe to say, most people have heard of diabetes, the disease that affects the way your body regulates blood sugar, or glucose.

New research shows which of those patients are at the highest risk for developing serious complications. Overall, three medical conditions significantly increased the risk of death: obesity, hypertension and diabetes. In particular, morbid obesity and hypertension more than doubled the risk of death, and the effect was additive. Essentially, having any of these three conditions raised a person’s risk from that of a young person to a middle-aged person. The same study found that 10% of young adults sick enough to be hospitalized with COVID-19 required a ventilator.

ANN ARBOR University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser and his wife, Eileen, have donated $30 million to the university to bolster diabetes research and develop life-changing therapies. The research will be in collaboration with Michigan Medicine and other schools and units within the university. The gift will see the establishment of the Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute, named for the Weisters daughter whose husband and two sons have Type 1 diabetes. Elizabeth has been a relentless educator and advocate for people with diabetes and for diabetes research, Regent Weiser said in a news release. This gift is transformational, Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president for medical affairs, dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and CEO of Michigan Medicine said in a news release.

From 1997 to 2016, insulin prices rose from about $20 per vial to over $250 per vial, according to a report from the Washington Post. The high prices have forced some people with diabetes to use expired insulin, rely on crowdfunding, or taking less insulin than they need in order to ration their supplies. Since 2017, at least 10 Americans have died from having to ration their insulin, according to the Right Care Alliance. WHO aims to duplicate HIV drug successThe process the WHO is undertaking is known as prequalification. Several presidential candidates have been outspoken in their calls for lower drug prices.