Worldwide rates of diabetes are expected to nearly triple over the next two decades to an estimated 1.3 billion people with the condition by 2050. To address…
University of Florida College of Medicine researcher and UF Diabetes Institute Director Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., is the recipient of the American Diabetes…
A trio of in-home tests that measure average blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes are not as accurate as in-office screening methods, new research by…
A major step toward transforming the understanding of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the millions of Americans with diabetes occurred Thursday when the…
No other Florida hospital has as many adult and pediatric specialties ranked among the nation’s best as University of Florida Health Shands Hospital, with the…
Experts recommend the use of continuous glucose monitors as the gold standard for managing Type 1 diabetes. Yet many adult patients, particularly those with…
Pushed by the obesity epidemic, a rising number of Americans are being diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that can lead to liver…
A protein thought to be the novel coronavirus’ entryway into the body could not be detected in the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas in three dozen…
A prolonged infection by a common virus might sometimes trigger the immune system attack on the pancreas that ultimately leads to Type 1 diabetes. The finding…
Graciela Lorca, Ph.D., was part of a University of Florida Health research team that discovered about a decade ago that something was amiss in the guts of…
The director of the University of Florida Diabetes Institute has been awarded the 2019 Jacobæus Prize, one of the top international honors in the field of…