US scientists have come a step closer to finding a way to help treat people with diabetes by reactivating their own insulinproducing beta cells in the pancreas, although they acknowledge that this goal is still a long way off. They discovered a hitherto unknown role for a well known protein it helps immature endocrine [...]

The risk of cancer possibly increases if patients with diabetes use the longacting insulin analogue glargine instead of human insulin. The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), in collaboration with the “Wissenschaftliches Institut der AOK” (WIdO), the research institute of the German Local Health Care Fund, analysed the data of almost 130,000 [...]