Insulin pumps used by teens to treat Type 1 diabetes have been linked to injuries and even deaths, a study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found.

The FDA advised parents to keep a watch on their children's use of pumps, as many times the devices fail to function properly

Diabetics have the same high risk for heart attack, stroke or even cardiovascular death as people who already suffered a heart attack, researchers report.

The study, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, also revealed that diabetics are twice as likely as non-diabetics to die after a heart attack

Researchers believe a once-daily shot of Sanofi-Aventis' insulin drug Lantus can control blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes just as effectively as three daily injections of Eli Lilly's Humalog. Following a Sanofi-Aventis-funded study that involved 400 people with type 2 diabetes, those who took Lantus saw a 1.7 percent decrease over time, compared to a 1.9 percent decrease in the group using Humalog.

Researchers concluded in their report that Lantus is indeed a simple and effective option to treat type 2 diabetes, since it was associated with a lower risk of hypoglycemia, fewer injections, less blood glucose self monitoring and greater patient satisfaction compared to Humalog

An 11-year-old girl died Sunday after her parents chose to pray for healing over seeking medical help for a treatable form of diabetes. Madeline Kara Neumann died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a treatable though serious condition of type 1 diabetes in which acid builds up in the blood.

Neumann's parents said they didn't know she had diabetes and didn't take her to a doctor. Instead they prayed for her healing. The girl was suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness

Giving young children vitamin D supplements may ward off the development of type 1 diabetes in later life, research suggests. Children who took supplements were around 30 percent less likely to develop the condition than those who did not.

The study, by St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, appears in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Type 1diabetes is an autoimmune disorder, in which insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body's own immune system, starting in early infancy