First, the formal name for what we commonly call diabetes is diabetes mellitus, which translates from the Greek as making lots of urine with sugar in it or making lots of sweet urine.

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Nearly two years after the FDA issued what became the first of two rejections, the agency has finally approved the Bydureon diabetes treatment, setting up what is going to be heated battle between Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Novo Nordisk, which sells a rival medicine called Victoza.

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"What's key is that schools draw up individual care plans for pupils with diabetes so everyone knows what they are doing, " said a spokeswoman.

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What is the relationship with risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer?

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We saw the numbers on the economics of what obesity is costing us today, but understand with type-2 diabetes emerging earlier and earlier in life, we got to get our hands around this.

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Ultimately, what we need is a study that randomizes people at high risk of developing diabetes into four groups.

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"Waiting in the wings we've got 350, 000 people with what's called pre-diabetes, so their chance of developing the diabetes is much higher, " said Mr Williams.

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My question is, my mom was diagnosed with diabetes when I was five, and what are you going to do to help childhood obesity and diabetes?

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Scientists say Type 1 diabetes is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors but they don't know what the trigger is.

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Tell me how have you managed to overcome first of all diabetes and then colitis, I mean that, to do that together with what you have done is incredible?

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