The Methodist Hospital of Houston is experimenting with a new approach to diabetic treatment by removing a patient's pancreas and injecting the insulin-producing cells into the patient's limb.

The pilot study, made on its first patient a month ago, seeks to discover methods to prevent the onset of diabetes for persons whose pancreas was removed due to pancreatitis, trauma, cancer or tumors

Harvard University scientists have made a set of new stem cell lines that make it possible for researchers to explore 10 different genetic disorders including muscular dystrophy and juvenile diabetes. Researchers hope the new research will help them find new treatments for genetic diseases.

The cells were taken from skin and bone marrow of diseased patients and re-programmed to behave like cells from days-old embryos. The subjects, whose ages ranged from one month to 57-years-old, suffered from a range of conditions from Down Syndrome to Parkinson's disease

An electronic diabetes registry will be ready by next spring to assist patients and healthcare teams in Ontario to manage their disease. By 2015, diabetics in the province will have individual electronic health records.

The high-tech approach is part of an ambitious $741 million program launched by the Ontario provincial government on Tuesday to strengthen its battle against diabetes

Women who gorge on junk food while pregnant could raise the risk of their offspring developing irreversible health problems such as obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes in adult life, according to new research.

Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College here carried out their study involving rats but scientists believe it also applies to humans. Rats that ate a diet rich in fat, sugar and salt while pregnant were more likely to give birth to offspring that had the tendency to over-eat and had a preference for junk food when compared to the offspring of rats given regular feed

Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes and another 57 million are estimated to have pre-diabetes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday.

Based on data from 2007, CDC said the number is roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population and represents an increase of about 3 million over two years