We know from past research that there’s a link between sleep and a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes, but it hasn’t been clear which comes first – bad sleep or higher blood sugars, or if other factors

People with diabetes are more at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke.

First-class research cannot happen without first class researchers. Diabetes UK and JDRF are committed to nurturing the diabetes research leaders of the future, so for the first research call we have worked together to develop a new senior fellowship programme.

Professor Reinhold Medina is a professor of Diabetes and Vascular Medicine in The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast.

While we know that obesity increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, 10% of people with type 2 diabetes have a BMI that is not in the obesity or overweight category.  

Our researcher Dr Julia Townson presented her findings showing a predictive tool using artificial intelligence could provide hope for earlier diagn

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It’s been 100 years since insulin was first used to treat

A new study revealed that Black and South Asian women are up to three times more likely

A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes once meant the start of a lifelong journey of learning to live with a serious condition that can have a big impact on health and wellbeing.