With World Heart Day this Saturday, we’re looking at what you can do to take better care of your heart if you have diabetes. Heart and circulatory disease cause more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK each year. People with diabetes have a high risk of developing these conditions, but regular exercise will make your heart and…
Type 2 diabetes is serious. If it’s not managed properly, the consequences include a higher risk of amputations, heart disease and sight loss. We also refer to Type 2 diabetes as a lifelong condition. But what if there was another option? The world is beginning to talk about remission. And while we still have a…
More than 6,000 people with diabetes have already signed up to our new – and free – online Learning Zone. Our clinical advisor for education Kat, one of the team behind it, tells you how it can help you. We know that if you have diabetes you only get 3 hours altogether a year with…
Hello, I’m Jon from Diabetes UK’s content team. Part of my job is helping to make videos for people with diabetes. I’m absolutely thrilled to tell you all about our brand new ‘how-to’ video collection. Late last year, we put a lot of time into analysing what you were after in terms of video and…
We set up the UK’s first diabetes Clinical Studies Groups (CSGs), tasked with creating a roadmap for future research. Together, they are looking for gaps in knowledge and priority research areas that need to be addressed in order to move care for people with diabetes forward. To do this, the groups bring together diabetes researchers,…
A couple of weeks ago we updated you on Type 2 diabetes research news at the American Diabetes Association meeting in Orlando. But we’re not done! There’s plenty more to share. Here’s the latest on diet myths, celebrating the mouse, and the importance of wellbeing. Busting some diet myths Dr Catherine Champagne and Melinda Maryniuk…